EXPERIENCE

Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, Massachusetts

— Curator of Fashion Arts, November 2021 - January 2026

Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island

– Critic, September 2025 - December 2025

Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, Massachusetts

— Lecturer, January 2025 - May 2025

Boston Athenaeum, Boston, Massachusetts

— Polly Thayer Starr Fellow in American Art and Culture, March 2019 - August 2021

Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia 

— Project Manager, July 2018 - June 2019

— Graduate Assistant, July 2017 - June 2018

SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film, Atlanta, Georgia 

— Exhibition Stylist, March 2018 - March 2019

— Curatorial Assistant + Docent, January 2017 - March 2018

Bloomingdale’s Lenox Square, Atlanta, Georgia

— Fashion Show Stylist + Producer, March 2001 - May 2015

— Studio Services Supervisor, November 2014 - May 2015

— Public Relations Manager, September 2012 - January 2013 

trinity productions, Atlanta, Georgia

— Experiential Event Director + Owner, September 2004 - September 2016

EXHIBITIONS

2024

Deep Waters: Four Artists and the Sea

The Banner Project: Troy Montes Michie

Four Womxn: New Musings on Blackness

Dress Up

2023

Something Old, Something New: Wedding Fashions and Traditions

2022

Being Muholi: Portraits as Resistance at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA

Patrick Kelly: Runway of Love at the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA 

2019-2020

(Anti)SUFFRAGE at the Boston Athenæum, Boston, MA 

Presence: Meditations on the Spelman College Collection at Spelman College Museum of Fine Art

Amy Sherald at the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA

The Devout Griot, Emotional Keeper by Shanequa Gay at Anne O Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA

This Just In! Recent Acquisitions of the Boston Athenæum at the Boston Athenæum, Boston, MA

TRANSCEND for The Creatives Project 9th Annual #ArtOfCommunity Exhibition at 34 Peachtree, Atlanta

2018

The Devouts by Shanequa Gay for Aqua Art Miami at Art Basel, Miami, FL

performing fashion: senseless acts of gender, MA Thesis Exhibition at Trois Gallery, Atlanta, GA

Pierre Cardin: Pursuit of the Future at SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film, Atlanta, GA

Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness at Spelman College Museum of Fine Art

Deborah Roberts: The Evolution of Mimi at Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA

NOVA for The Creatives Project 8th Annual #ArtOfCommunity Exhibition at 691 West, Atlanta, GA

2017

Guo Pei: Couture Beyond at SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film, Atlanta, GA

Omar Victor Diop: Project Diaspora at SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film, Atlanta, GA

Beverly Buchanan—Ruins and Rituals at Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA

PRIME for The Creatives Project 7th Annual #ArtOfCommunity Exhibition at 955 Peachtree Street

ENGAGEMENTS

2026

Lesley University - Lecturer + Visiting Critic, VIsual Arts MFA + Fellows

2025

“This Womxn’s Work: Fashioning a Diaspora” at McCord Stewart Museum, Montreal, Quebec - Host + Moderator 

“Tailoring Identities: The Masculinisation of Womenswear” Symposium for Palais Galleria, Paris, France - Chair

In Conversation with Ayana V. Jackson at Museum of Fine Arts Boston - Host + Moderator

Esther B. and Albert S. Kahn Career Entry Awards at Boston University - Juror + Guest Speaker

The Equality Fund for The Boston Foundation - Advisory Board Member

Un-monument for the City of Boston Arts + Culture - Advisory Board Member

Harvard DuBois Scholars Program - Mentor

Museum of Fine Arts Boston Teen, Homeschool, Pathways Internship, and Curatorial Study Hall - Mentor

2024

The Equality Fund for The Boston Foundation - Advisory Board Member

Un-monument for the City of Boston Arts + Culture - Advisory Board Member

“The Culture Show” with Jared Bowen for WGBH - Guest [Recurring]

The Winsor School [Black History Month] - Keynote Speaker

In Conversation with Mimi Plange at Museum of Fine Arts Boston - Host + Moderator

The Battle of Versailles for Selvedge Magazine - Author

Tufts University [The Art of Good Trouble: Policy, Politics, and Advocacy] - Guest Lecturer

“A Queer Eye on Dress Up’ at Museum of Fine Arts Boston - Lecturer

German International School of Boston - Guest Lecturer

“Behind the Stripes” with La Ligne founder Meredith Melling at The ‘Quin House - Host + Moderator

WBUR Radio with Andrea Shea for Donna Summer - Guest

Museum of Fine Arts Boston Teen, Homeschool, Pathways Internship and Curatorial Study Hall - Mentor

2023

Textile Design Now Symposium [DesigningWomen] at Université of Montreal, Quebec - Keynote Speaker

Women’s History Month Celebration at Neiman Marcus - Panelist

50th Anniversary Celebration of Versailles ‘73 with Alva Chinn + Deborah Riley Draper - Host

In Conversation with Bethann Hardison [Shapiro Lecture] at Museum of Fine Arts Boston - Moderator

Embrace Ideas Festival [Creativity as Resistance], Boston, MA - Panelist 

Art Collecting 101 at The ‘Quin House, Boston, MA - Host + Moderator

The Larger Conversation: Inventing Isabella with Horace Ballard, Fabiola Jean-Louis and Carla Fernandez at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum - Moderator

Big Butch Energy/Synergy by Nina Chanel Abney [Exhibition Catalogue] - Contributor

In Conversation with Ruth E. Carter [Book tour for The Art of Ruth E. Carter] at Coolidge Corner Theater - Moderator

Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY - Guest Lecturer

In Conversation with Aurora James [Book tour for Wildflower] at Beacon Hill Books & Cafe - Moderator

Massachusetts College of Art and Design [Culture, Dress, and Identity] - Guest Lecturer

ICOM Costume Symposium, Edinburgh, Scotland [All the Colours of Black] - Presenter

Museum of Fine Arts Boston Teen, Homeschool, Pathways Internship and Curatorial Study Hall - Mentor

2022

Project Upcycle Runway Competition at 3S Artspace, Portsmouth, NH - Guest Judge

“Reclaiming What Has Been Stolen” for The Point at Arts Emerson, Boston, MA - Panelist

documenta15 in Kassel, Germany on behalf of the Goethe Institut, Boston, MA - Guest Curator + Panelist

Curator’s Choice: Fashion Favorites at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA - Lecturer

2021

Joe Basille Memorial Lecture Series at Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD - Guest Speaker

Mass Cultural Council Artists Fellowship Program for Photography, Boston, MA - Juror

Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design Visiting Artist and Scholar Series at Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA - Visiting Scholar & Exhibition Juror

“The Harriet Hayden Albums: A Social History of Photography, Agency & Identity in Late 19th Century Boston” at the Boston Athenæum, Boston, MA - Lecturer

2020

‘More Than A Model: Thomas McKeller’s Influence on John Singer Sargent’ for Reframing the Artist’s Model session at SECAC (formerly the Southeastern College Art Conference) - Presenter  

“A Fashion Feat & Fête” for Supreme Models: Iconic Black Women Who Revolutionized Fashion with the Peabody Essex Museum and the Boston Athenæum, Boston, MA - Moderator

Curator’s Choice: The Harriet Hayden Albums - Photography & Identity in the Late 19th Century at the Boston Athenæum, Boston, MA - Lecturer

"The Larger Conversation: Rearview Mirror of Queerness and Erasure" Panel for Boston’s Apollo: Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA - Presenter

‘Suffering Through Suffrage: Curating a Counternarrative’ for the Women and Social Movements in the United States From 1600-2000 Roundtable on Suffrage - Essay

The Larger Conversation - "The Rearview Mirror of Queerness and Erasure" Panel for Boston’s Apollo: Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA - Panelist

Curator’s Choice: (Anti)SUFFRAGE - Same-Sex Relationships in the 19th Century Suffrage Movement at the Boston Athenæum, Boston, MA - Lecturer

Curator’s Choice: Edmonia Lewis at the Boston Athenæum, Boston, MA - Lecturer

“Black Women and the Politics of Portraiture” at the 2nd Annual Global Conference of Fashion and Photography: An Inclusive Interdisciplinary Project by Progressive Connexions, Bratislava, Slovakia - Presenter*

Allan Rohan Crite: Boston & Beyond at St. Botolph Club, Boston, MA - Keynote Speaker*

City of Boston’s Arts and Culture Artist-in-Residence - Advisory Committee 

The Larger Conversation - “Reclamation: Power, Agency, and the Black Model” Panel for Boston’s Apollo: Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA - Moderator

“Archiving Identity & Preserving Our Image” Panel for Theaster Gates: Black Image Corporation at the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA - Moderator

Curator’s Choice: Sartorial Suffrage in conjunction with (Anti)SUFFRAGE at the Boston Athenæum, Boston, MA - Moderator

“Empower Her: Black Women in the Arts” Panel at the Boston Athenæum, Boston, MA - Moderator

Boston’s Apollo: Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA - Collaborator + Writer

The Living Room by Lee Mingwei at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA - Guest Host

2019

Eye of the Expert: (Anti)SUFFRAGE at the Boston Athenæum, Boston, MA - Presenter

“Navigating the Performativity of Inclusivity” at Art on the Vine, Martha’s Vineyard, MA - Panelist

2018

performing fashion: senseless acts of gender at the 1st Annual Global Conference of Fashion and Photography: An Inclusive Interdisciplinary Project by Progressive Connexions, Palermo, Italy - Presenter

#SpelZanelePRIDE Panel on LGBTQI+ Spirituality, Visibility, and Sexuality for Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness at the Spelman College of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA - Creator + Host

SCAD deFINE ART 2018 Keynote Lecture by Toyin Ojih Odutola at SCAD Show, Atlanta, GA - Remarks

Deborah Roberts: The Evolution of Mimi Original Exhibition Catalogue - Project Manager + Writer + Editor

2017

SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film Permanent Collection Online Exhibition for Google Arts and Culture Launch - Fashion Photo Stylist + Copywriter + Editor

*Cancelled due to the extenuating circumstances surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic.

EDUCATION

MA, Luxury and Fashion Management, Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, GA

BFA, Fashion Marketing, American InterContinental University, Atlanta, GA - Magna Cum Laude
BS, Management, Alabama A&M University, Normal, AL - Cum Laude

Certificate, Seeing through Photographs, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

Areas of Study + Interest: Fashion, Art, Photography, Race, Gender, Class, Identity, Sexuality, Queer Theory, Womanism | Feminism

EXPRESSIONS

English - Native Tongue (Reading, Speaking, Comprehension)

French - Beginner (Reading, Speaking, Comprehension)