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- Select Academic Projects
- Museum Financial Management Oregon Trail Game (2026)
- Outside The Lines: A Cross-Dinsciplinary, International Teaching & Learning Collaboration (2025)
- Look Back in Wonder, Prepare for Next Time, Please Do not forget us: The AIDS Crisis in the United States 1980-95 digital exhibition (ongoing)
- Fan Fiction, Fandom, and AO3’s ‘Mysteriously’ Organized Chaos paper (2023)
- Women’s Herstory of Southern Indiana exhibition proposal (2023)
- Select Professional Projects
- Herron Galleries – Actions for the Earth Exhibition Installation and De-Installation (2025-2026)
- Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art’s 2025 Quest for the West Art Show and Sale (2024-2025)
- Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art – Exhibition Proposal Process and Fact Sheet (2024-2026)
- Eskenazi Museum of Art Provenance research and Provenance Day Programming (2023-2024)
- Indiana University Collections American Indian Studies Research Institute Digitization Project (2022-2023)
- Unionville Elementary School Centennial History Esri StoryMap Digital Exhibition and Learning Tool (2022)
- Pack Your Wagon Esri StoryMap Digital Social Studies Learning Tool (2021)
- Spring Break Activities for Monroe County History Center (2021)
Select Academic Projects
gALLERY aCCESS aHEAD: aN aCCESSIBILITY aUDIT OF THE hERRON gALLERIES
Over the course of the 2025-2026 school year, I served as the Graduate Interpretation Intern at the Herron Galleries, at the Herron School of Art and Design. After realizing a number of accessibility barriers within the Galleries’ tangible and intangible infrastructure, I decided to conduct an accessibility audit and report. Through gathering information via a school wide survey, interviews with various stakeholders, consultations with accessibility specialists, and a literature review, I authored a report that listed accessibility barriers as well as suggestions to increase accessibility based on the feedback provided from all gathered information.
I summarized this report into a research poster that I presented at the Indiana University Indianapolis Museum Studies End-Of-Year Research Presentations and Gala.
Museum Financial Management Oregon Trail Game (2026)
Created in 2026, this game was heavily inspired by the Oregon Trail game, however, it was reformatted for a graduate museum studies classroom setting.
Each team was provided a Museum Profile, unique Event Cards, a Board Personality Card, an Excel Cash Flow Template Sheet (digital), and a starting budget. Teams would pull Event Cards (which were inevitable events), and then work together to re-evaluate and re-balance their museum’s operating budget within a short period of time. Based on which cards were pulled, teams’ performance were evaluated based on Financial Health, Infrastructure Health, Public Trust, Staff Sustainability, and Mission Health.
Credits: Self
Avoiding Red Herrons: Shifting from Reactive to Proactive Museum Work
As part of my role as the Interpretation Intern at the Herron Galleries at the Herron School of Art and Design, I developed my own role’s infrastructure, as well as observed my supervisor, M. Pofahl, build department wide infrastructure within their first year as Galleries Director. This project included a literature review and case studies from my experiences at the Herron Galleries. I presented the project at the end of the Fall 2025 semester to my cohort and our internship supervisors.
Outside The Lines: A Cross-Dinsciplinary, International Teaching & Learning Collaboration (2025)
In 2025, I co-authored a research poster alongside my advisor, Dr. Holly Cusack-McVeigh, and peers, Kylie Barkley, Thomas Crain, and Shannon Sutton. We presented the poster at the 2025 Indiana University Celebration of Teaching Conference.
The poster described the international collaboration between the Indiana University Indianapolis Museum Studies department, Purdue University, and Phenikaa University (Vietnam) to form a class that covered preventative conservation in cultural heritage institutions and the unique occupational safety hazards that cultural heritage professionals may encounter.
Look Back in Wonder, Prepare for Next Time, Please Do not forget us: The AIDS Crisis in the United States 1980-95 digital exhibition (ongoing)
Started in 2021, this ongoing collaborative digital project aims to communicate the stories of the HIV/AIDS Crisis and how it impact/ed/s the LGBTQIA2s+ community, with focus on Chicago/Indianapolis, San Francisco, and New York City.
With the closure of the Esri StoryMaps platform, the project’s content is being re-evaluated as well as being transferred to a different platform/medium.
Fan Fiction, Fandom, and AO3’s ‘Mysteriously’ Organized Chaos paper (2023)
This paper focuses on the organization of Archive of Our Own, a fan fiction web archive. A short history of Archive of Our Own is included. The main idea of this paper is the organization and representation of ideas and works on the website. It details the unique design of the organization’s tagging system and the work of the ‘tag wranglers’ who discipline the tagging system. It also discusses the separate tagging system that helps moderate rating systems for works, along with content warnings, and fandom and relationship categories. Furthermore, discussion of censorship and the inherent risks of censorship are discussed in relation to the archive.
Women’s Herstory of Southern Indiana exhibition proposal (2023)
Created for a class project, this exhibition proposal includes a 3D model mock up of the proposed exhibition, which was to be theoretical be installed at the Monroe County History Center in Bloomington, IN.
The content would be organized in linear order, from the matriarchs of the founding families of Bloomington, IN, to the current and ongoing fight for the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment. Notable women of the Bloomington community would be highlighted within the content and curated checklist.
Select Professional Projects
Herron Galleries – Actions for the Earth Exhibition Installation and De-Installation (2025-2026)
As part of my internship at the Herron Galleries, I aided in the installation and de-installation of a traveling exhibition that spanned 3 galleries in the Herron School of Art and Design .
Credits: Kassie Woodworth
Credits: Jasper Drilling
Credits: M. Pofahl
Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art’s 2025 Quest for the West Art Show and Sale (2024-2025)
As the largest fundraiser for the Eiteljorg, the annual Quest for the West Art Show and Sale includes coordinating 50+ artists, who create 3-4 pieces each, 50+ volunteers, the Eiteljorg staff, and the donor society that hosts the event. As Interim Associate Curator, I co-managed the project with my supervisor, Laura Fry (VP of Curatorial Affairs and Exhibitions). The show included a luck-of-the-draw auction. This work included compiling information for the show’s artwork checklist from artists, developing the show’s catalog, developing the luck-of-the-draw auction materials, developing training materials for the volunteers and staff working the event, training the volunteers and staff working the event, aiding in running the team meetings leading up to and after the event, developing a project charter for the event, unpacking and condition reporting the artwork, installing and de-installing the show, tracking historical sales trends to aid the donor society with artist selection, and more.
Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art – Exhibition Proposal Process and Fact Sheet (2024-2026)
As part of my role as the Curatorial Assistant/Interim Associate Curator at the Eiteljorg, I collaborated with my supervisor, Laura Fry (VP of Curatorial Affairs and Exhibitions), to create an exhibition proposal process and exhibition fact sheet template. With project management theoretical framework in mind, our exhibition proposal process included components inspired by Beverly Serrell’s ‘Big Idea’ concept; it also required rationale within institutional objectives and budget. The exhibition fact sheet (created once the exhibition proposal was formally accepted) contained an overview of the exhibition, which was shared with all departments to aid them in their roles of the project (Ex: photos and verbiage approved for PR, object checklist for Collections, budget for finance).
Eskenazi Museum of Art Provenance research and Provenance Day Programming (2023-2024)
Working within the museum’s Art of Africa, Oceania, and Indigenous Art of the Americas curatorial department, I researched and recorded the provenance of 25+ pieces and authored new provenance-informed labels for 15 of those pieces. I learned how to use The Museum System (TMS) to research, and document research of, collections as part of this project. Additionally, for World Provenance Day 2024, I prepared and facilitated a tour of the Wielgus Galleries that highlighted pieces on view in which I researched and rewrote labels for, in partnership with the European Art department’s provenance researcher.
Indiana University Collections American Indian Studies Research Institute Digitization Project (2022-2023)
Initially hired as a collections assistant to inventory the archival collection – which had belonged to Dr. Raymond DeMallie and Douglas Parks, whom both studied Indigenous languages of the American Plains, I was hired as the McRobbie Collections Intern at Indiana University Collections. I was made student lead of the student digitization team, and oversaw 5 student workers as we digitized the collection. I quality checked their work, as well as attempting to appraise the collection components for future cataloging. I worked with various stakeholders to learn about the languages and speakers recorded in the collection. I was able to work with an archivist at Oglala Lakota College to help make audio recordings of community elders made in the 1980s-90s available to the speakers’ descendants.
Unionville Elementary School Centennial History Esri StoryMap Digital Exhibition and Learning Tool (2022)
Unionville Elementary (located in Monroe County, Indiana) approached the Monroe County History Center about creating programming and educational materials for the Centennial Celebration happening in May 2022. I was interning at MCHC at the time and took on the project, working collaboratively with multiple community members, the schools’ PTO leadership, and with various education officials. Using Esri StoryMaps, I created an interactive digital exhibition that was interdisciplinary and celebrated the history of the region and school. The efforts for this project included archival research, as well as interviewing community members and recording oral histories. In addition to the StoryMap, I created the lesson plans, lesson outlines, and scripts.
Pack Your Wagon Esri StoryMap Digital Social Studies Learning Tool (2021)
Inspired by the Oregon Trail Game, Pack Your Wagon was an interactive StoryMap that teachers could use while teaching about Westward Expansion. Like the original game, students followed a 2nd person point of view story in which they needed to prepare for and travel a westward trail, however, Pack Your Wagon followed the Indiana Buffalo Trace Trail. Students were asked to synthesize their knowledge of the historical period, math (to calculate cost and weight), and science (meteorology), to determine what they should pack in their wagon on their trip westward through Indiana. This project was done for the Monroe County History Center. In addition to the StoryMap, I created the lesson plan, lesson outline, and script.
Spring Break Activities for Monroe County History Center (2021)
For Spring Break 2021, I created self led educational materials for families to use throughout their visit to MCHC. These materials includes word searches, scavenger hunts, and museum content “passports” that focused on women highlighted in the exhibitions. Additionally, I created “I Spy” flash cards for younger patrons that prompted them to search for notable items in each exhibition space (ex: Monroe the Bear, the Log Cabin, the RCA dogs).
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