I am pleased to present a paper about Maya Lin’s Ghost Forest, an outdoor installation composed of forty-nine dead Atlantic cedars, at this year’s College Art Association Conference in Chicago, IL in February 2024. This was part of a pane, “How Can Trees Teach Us?” chaired by Martina Tanga, Museum of Fine Arts Boston.

I teach at Emerson Contemporary, and it’s been a rewarding challenge to guide students and professors through Kameelah Janan Rasheed’s current exhibition (snapshot of this above). I’m also teaching a class I designed this semester about the impact of technology on nineteenth-century American Art.

My current Independent Study at IDSVA uses ecofeminism and process theory to connect contemporary portraiture with a growing ethos regarding companionship between human and non-human beings.