Available for purchase at the MIT Press Bookstore
Also at The Toadstool Bookshop (signed copies available)
Excerpt published in The Boston Globe
Upcoming Lectures and Exhibitions
Contemporary Textiles
October 1-31, 2026
Mount Wilson Observatory
Saturday, September 19, 5:30–11:30 pm
Following my lecture The Brightness of Stars: Henrietta Leavitt and the Transformative Nature of Attention in Art and Science we will have a chance to observe the night sky through the historic 60-inch and 100-inch telescopes!
Tickets available for purchase here
OBJECTS: USA
September 5, 2026 – January 17, 2027
The Data at Hand: Data Physicalizations of Earth and Space
Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, California
September 12 – December 6, 2026
Opening Reception | Saturday, October 3, 4-6 pm
Curated by Kayleigh Perkov
Magic
Drive-by Projects, Watertown, Massachusetts
January 10 – March 14, 2026
The Brightness of Stars
Saint Anselm College, Manchester, New Hampshire
February 4 – March 7, 2026
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