July 30, 2024
I’ve completed a bunch of projects this year, including a few major ones, and am now open to new work, whether freelance projects or part- or full-time roles. Typically I help arts organizations, startups, or creative companies with storytelling—from strategizing what and how to publish to proofreading the finished product. Here’s a sampling of what I’ve done so far this year:
- Edited a 292-page book for a large architecture firm about its performing-arts hall designs
- Written product-update emails and other copy for Notion
- Launched my own startup, Valise, into an open beta (v1.0 arrives this fall!)
- Ghostwritten a nonprofit director’s fundraising-gala speech
- Copy edited an anthology of artist interviews, a major group-exhibition catalogue, and wall labels for exhibitions at several art museums
- Advised a nonprofit bringing together technologists, psychologists, and artists and provided editorial advice on its 60-page manifesto
- Published a weekly newsletter on big ideas in architecture and urban life
- Interviewed grantees for the Teiger Foundation and helped write the story of its new climate-focused program
- Written a zine for a mid-size architecture firm about its designs for university campuses
- Edited a book collecting 15 years of writing by an experimental designer and curator
Do you work at a company that needs help telling the story of what you do or executing the editorial plan you have? Or are you at a museum or other nonprofit that doesn’t have in-house editors and could use an experienced outsider? Be in touch; my email address is below.
In my personal life, I am building a website for the first time in more than a decade, ferrying the kids to and from various summer camps, and still coming off the high of the Celtics winning the NBA championship. I’m reading, always reading; some recent favorites are the NYRB reissue of Rachel Cohen’s 2004 book A Chance Meeting and Jennifer Kabat’s The Eighth Moon. And I’m keeping a list of 2024 albums I enjoy on Are.na.
Book, Exhibition Moyra Davey Touch Screen Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation Andreas Gursky Objektiv 18 Subjektiv Sara Cwynar Moderna Museet Islands of the Blest Kentucky Renaissance —
Book, Exhibition Nir Evron 30 Americans Jochen Lempert —
Exhibition, Writing Lucas Blalock Mårten Lange Big Pictures Cincinnati Enquirer op-ed Edward Steichen Eyes on the Street Our Poor Perishable World Carol Bove Liz Deschenes The Permanent Way Tauba Auerbach Venice Biennale Younger Than Jesus —
Book, Exhibition The Uncertain States of America Reader Whitney Biennial