available for purchase at the MIT Press Bookstore
also at The Toadstool Bookshop (signed copies available)
Excerpt published in The Boston Globe
Upcoming Book Talks and Exhibitions
New Bedford Science Cafe
Tuesday, March 4, 6-8 pm
Strother School of Radical exhibition with Jennifer L. Roberts
Thursday, March 6, 5:30-7:30 pm
Drive-by Projects closing reception
Saturday, March 8, 10:30 am-12 pm
Tucson Festival of Books
March 15 & 16: Participating in two panels Saturday 4 pm & Sunday 1 pm
Napa Bookmine
Tuesday, March 18, 6 pm
California College of the Arts
Wednesday, March 19, 7:30 pm
McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center
Sunday, March 30 with afternoon and evening programming
Recent Book Talks
Harvard University
In conversation with Harvard professor of applied astronomy Alyssa Goodman
Tuesday, October 8, 6 pm
deCordova Museum
In conversation with Harvard professor of art history Jennifer L. Roberts
Thursday, October 10, 6:30 pm
The Royal Astronomical Society
London, England
Tuesday, October 15, 1 pm & 6 pm—both a lunchtime and evening lecture!
Royal Museums Greenwich
London, England
Friday, October 18, 6:30 pm in conversation with playwright Stella Feehily and artist Aura Satz
Cabinet Magazine
Brooklyn, New York
Wednesday, December 11, 7 pm in conversation with Rebecca Dinerstein Knight
Selected Projects
Wheel of the Year
Drive-by Projects, Watertown, Massachusetts
January 11 – March 8, 2025, Reception Saturday, January 11, 3-5 pm
About Place: Quilts from Vermont Museums
Fleming Museum of Art, University of Vermont
September 10 – December 6, 2024
Elements and Objects
Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, Oregon
March 7 – April 27, 2024
Glass, Metal, Thread: Building our Observable World
University Galleries of Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois
January 17 – April 2, 2023
Parallax: Framing the Cosmos
The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College
October 1, 2022 – June 19, 2023
Henrietta Leavitt: A Life Spent Looking
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College
August 1-December 23, 2023
2001 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship
Research topic: “Structuring the Light: The Story of Dark Matter”
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Radical Tradition: American Quilts and Social Change
Toledo Museum of Art
November 21, 2020 – February 14, 2021
Measure
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
November 9, 2018 – January 19, 2019
Opening lecture at Harvard Radcliffe Institute