Preparator Work
From 2018-2023 I worked at the Richmond Center for Visual Arts, as a gallery preparator. I assisted in over 50 exhibition installations. I am currently continuing work as a preparator for the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts.
What's a Preparator? A preparator takes care of art and galleries. They handle and install artwork in the galleries.
Below are some examples of the exhibitions I have installed while working at the RCVA and KIA.
September 14, 2024 - January 19, 2025
Through depictions of quiet temples and sacred deities, ceremonial vessels and devoted priests, and the esteemed figures of scholars and samurai, Powerful Forces: Legends, Rituals, and Warriors in East Asian Art illuminates the profound themes of power and legend intrinsic to East Asian heritage.
September 6, 2024 - February 16, 2025
For 100 years, the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts has served as an art museum and community-based art school for local, regional, and national audiences. In honor of our centennial, the KIA is proud to present Legendary Voices: Art for the Next Century. This exciting exhibition pairs and occasionally groups artworks from different periods, artists, and genres creating compelling connections and dialogues, while also illuminating the breadth of the KIA’s collection.
May 18 - August 18, 2024
This stunning exhibition embodies the intellectual content of Native traditions, newly illuminated by the unique properties that can only be achieved by working with glass. Whether reinterpreting traditional stories and designs or expressing contemporary issues affecting Indigenous societies, Indigenous artists have created content-laden bodies of work via the medium of glass.
May 3 - August 18, 2023
Take a virtual tour on the KIA website by clicking the link above.
January 20 - May 14, 2024
Kyungmi Shin: A Story to Finding Us continues the artist’s explorations of the historical narratives embedded in painting and ceramic practices flowing between the East and West.
January 20 - April 14, 2024
American Realism: Visions of America, 1900-1950 looks at this period through the paintings, drawings, and prints that sought to capture the new American experience, especially within the nation’s burgeoning and rapidly evolving urban centers. Drawing primarily from the collections of three Michigan museums — the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Flint Institute of Arts, and the Muskegon Museum of Art
May 27 - August 27, 2023
The annual area show includes a piece of my own Education Foundation. Take a virtual tour on the KIA website by clicking the link above.
May 13 - September 3, 2023
The KIA’s longstanding history of collecting works and presenting exhibitions celebrating the artists and art practices of East Asia continues with Sugoi! 200 Years of Japanese Art.
January 28 - May 14, 2023
Vibrant, engaging, and innovative traditions of Japanese printmaking and ceramics spanning the last fifty years.
January 21 - May 7, 2023
Works from women in the 1950s.
September 24 - December 29, 2022
Co-curated by Rehema Barber and Larry Ossei-Mensah.
August 29 - November 19, 2022
Works from the RCVA permanant collection.
September 23 - November 14, 2021
Artist: Mimi Kato
March 1 - May 2, 2021
Five Contemporary Ukrainian Photographers: Igor Chekachkov, Alexander Chekmenev, Eugeny Kom, Vitaly Fomenko, and Lana Yankovska
January 10 - March 8, 2020
Artist: Dwayne Lowder
September 5 - October 13, 2019
Curated by Tricia Hennessy
January 17 - March 17, 2019
Artist: Kaylon Khorsheed, Sophie Lane Dennis, and Audrey Mills
January 17 - March 17, 2019
Artist: Christina Quarles
September 20 - October 28, 2018
Artists: Maria Gaspar, Cheryl Pope, Tyanna J. Buie, Ashely Hunt, Sherrill Roland, and Hank Willis Thomas
Images of artwork I have installed in the gallery.