Over the course of five years at the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) in Boston, I contributed to the reinstallation of the museum’s permanent collection of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine art. My work spanned a range of exhibition displays, including topics such as the development of narrative art in early Greek vases, the role of women and children in the ancient Greek family, and the significance of Byzantine luxury objects and early Christian pilgrimage. During my time as the Stavros Niarchos Fellow in Classical Art, I collaborated closely with Laure Marest, the Cornelius and Emily Vermeule Associate Curator of Greek and Roman Art, on the reinstallation of Roman portrait statues in the museum’s permanent collection.
In addition to my work on the reinstallation of permanent galleries, I have contributed to several temporary exhibitions. One project I’m particularly proud of is Life, Death & Revelry: The Farnese Sarcophagus (2018) at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. For this exhibition, I collaborated with the lead curator and staff from the Education and Interpretation Department to write exhibition labels and create didactic materials, including a timeline that traced the sarcophagus’s journey over two millennia, from ancient Rome to modern Boston. The exhibition paired the Farnese Sarcophagus with a contemporary digital art installation, Maenads & Satyrs, by the artist collective OpenEndedGroup, offering a dramatic, modern reimagining of the ancient sculptural work.
In addition to my work on permanent galleries and temporary exhibitions, I have extensive experience in collections research. During the 2021-2022 academic year, at Tufts University Art Galleries, I collaborated with Dina Deitsch, Director and Chief Curator, and Laura McDonald, Manager of Collections, to conduct research on the institution’s permanent collection of ancient Mediterranean art, including provenance studies. The collection spans geographic regions across the Mediterranean basin and covers a chronological range from the mid-fifth millennium BCE to the sixth century CE. As part of this research, I identified several objects that appear to be modern forgeries.
In the summer of 2018, I served as the graduate curatorial intern for ancient art at the Princeton University Art Museum, where I worked closely with Michael Padgett, then Curator of Ancient Art, on the preparatory stages of a Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum (CVA) publication for the museum’s collection of Attic Red-Figure vases. As part of this project, I researched the pelikai in the collection and wrote the entries for these vessels in the CVA.
