Adjunct Faculty. Master of Arts in Exhibition Design Program, Corcoran College of Art + Design.
Invited Speaker. Art, Food, and Community Conference, New City Arts Forum, Charlottesville, March 6-8, 2014.
Teacher/Sharer. Course: Food and Culture at the Museum for Knowledge Commons DC, a free, floating school hosted throughout Washington DC by volunteers. 31 March 2013.
Interview. KCDC Teacher Feature: Meet Cory Bernat, 22 March 2013.
Presenter. Food, the City, and Innovation conference, hosted by University of Texas at Austin, February 1-2, 2013.
Teacher/Sharer. Course: Food and Culture at the Museum for Knowledge Commons DC, a free, floating school hosted throughout Washington DC by volunteers, January 2013.
Co-curator. FOOD: Transforming the American Table, 1950-2000. Opened November 20, 2012. National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.
Selected press coverage:
Washington Post Express, November 29, 2012, Pull Up a Kitchen Chair: Food is at the center of a new Smithsonian exhibit, and it’s sure to get you talking by Katie Aberbach.
Smithsonian.com, November 15, 2012, The World’s Largest Collection of Coffee Cup Lids by K. Annabelle Smith.
CNN's Eatocracy Blog, November 23, 2012, Smithsonian exhibit explores America’s changing food culture by Cassie Spodak.
Washington Post, November 16, 2012, A half-century look at American wine by Dave McIntyre.
Guest curator. Very Short List, “Vintage Ads For Plastic Food Packaging,” 17 August 2012.
Guest curator. Very Short List, “History Of Vintage Farmers' Notebooks And Other Agricultural Ephemera,” 20 July 2012.
Presenter. June 20 - 24, 2012. “Plastic and Food Culture” at Global Gateways and Local Connections: Cities, Agriculture, and the Future of Food Systems; the 2012 Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS). Hosted by New York University and The New School, NYC. Event details.
Invited Presenter. June 7-8, 2012. “Plastic and Food Culture” at The Age of Plastic: An Interdisciplinary Symposium, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. Event details.
Presenter. March 10, 2012. The Chesapeake American Studies Association annual meeting, hosted by American University, Washington, DC. Program and event details.
Guest Lecturer. February 28, 2012. Art class at MICA, Baltimore, MD. Topics: Food in Art and Disguise & Identity
Guest Lecturer. February 2012. School of Sustainability and the Environment, Chatham University, Pittsburgh, PA. Event details.
Guest Lecturer. December 2011. Teach American History Grant, Ionia, MI.
Attendee. Hagley Library Conference, The Life of New Materials.
Blog Post: Food culture, supermarkets, and packaging, written for National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.
Guest Lecturer. Columbia University, New York, October 2011. Architecture class instructor: Nicola Twilley.
Art Show Participant. June 23 to October 2, 2011. Photograph included in the Smithsonian Community Staff Art Show, Concourse Gallery in the S. Dillon Ripley Center, National Mall, Washington, DC.
Presenter and Co-Collaborator. The Age of Plastic Program Steering Workshop, May 2011. Sponsored by Smithsonian's Museum Conservation Institute.
Food Historian and member of the Food & Wine History Team at the Smithsonian Museum of American History.
Curator and exhibit preparator of physical poster exhibit, When Beans Were Bullets at the National Agricultural Library.
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Researcher, designer and developer of the online exhibit, Beans Are Bullets and Of Course I Can! War-Era Food Posters from the National Agricultural Library.
Press. Interviewed about my poster exhibit by Smithsonian Magazine's food blogger, Amanda Bensen. View article and slideshow.
Selected mentions around the web:
BoingBoing.net, July 22, 2010, Beans Are Bullets: War-Era Food Posters by Xeni Jardin.
GOOD Blog, July 24, 2010, Old School Food Infographic by Andrew Price.
Food Safety News, July 27, 2010, Food Posters on Display at National Ag Library by Helena Bottemiller.
Food Politics, July 27, 2010, U.S. Government Food Posters on exhibit! Online! by Marion Nestle.
Meta Filter, July 29, 2010, Have you eaten your pound of potatoes today?
American Historical Association, July 29, 2010, What We’re Reading: July 29, 2010 Edition, Food Posters, Contributors: Elisabeth Grant and Vernon Horn.
Washington Post Food Blog, October 4, 2010, For Dietary Advice, the Writing Was on the Wall by Jane Black.
Talk and Slide Show. 3:30pm, June 7, 2011. Topic: When Beans were Bullets food poster research and exhibit. NMAH Tuesday Colloquium Series, Smithsonian Museum of American History, Fourth Floor, East Conference Room.
Attendee. The Washington Post Live Conference, The Future of Food.
Guest Lecturer. In two art courses at MICA, Baltimore, MD. Topics: Disguise & Identity and Food in Art.
Attendee. Sustainable food and farming event, TEDxManhattan: Changing the Way We Eat.
Published review essay. “A Winery Pastoral” in Summer 2009 issue of Gastronomica: The Journal of Food & Culture. Thumbnails and download.
Presenter: “Beans are Bullets” and “Of Course I Can!” Exhibiting War Posters of the National Agricultural Library at the ASFS (Assoc. for the Study of Food & Society) Conference and annual meeting, State College, PA.
Project Archivist. National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service. Visit the National Register website and search engine.
Press. Nice discussion of Fall 08 Gastronomica essay on Utne’s Arts Blog: Who Are the Gerber Baby’s Parents? from Thursday, March 19, 2009, by Elizabeth Ryan.
Collaboration. How We Dwell art endeavor and residency by Megan Lavelle. More about the project.
Invited panel participant and speaker. Gastronomica Forum: Feast for the Eyes at the Astor Center in NYC with Darra Goldstein and Nina Katchadourian. Astor Center bio.
Published essay. “Nina Katchadourian’s Genealogy of the Supermarket” in Fall 2008 issue of Gastronomica: The Journal of Food & Culture.
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Collaboration. Satellite Issue 3, with artists and authors, Laura Albert, Daniel Coffeen, Nadine Fecht, Helena Keefe, Julie Lequin, Reuben Lorch-Miller, Naomi Miller, Jason Mortara, Will Rogan, Jon Rubin, Alice Shaw, Zack Sternwalker, James Tantum, and Robert Wechsler. View editor Jon Rubin’s thumbnails and description of issue. Photos and more.
Presenter. “Not Just Lunch: The Mitsitam Café at the National Museum of the American Indian.” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Albuquerque.
Instructor for Putney Student Travel. Food & Culture at Amherst College. View more photos in the archives.
Presenter. “Not Just Lunch: The Mitsitam Café at the National Museum of the American Indian.” Association for the Study of Food & Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans.
Instructor for Putney Student Travel. Taught Travel Photography and Renaissance History in Oxford, London, Paris and Tuscany. Visit Putney Student Travel. View more photos.
Smithsonian Internship. Conducted in the American History Museum for the Lemelson Center. Digitization and online finding aid project: Ralph H. Baer Papers. (Mr. Baer, among other things, invented the video game.) View photo documentation.
Archival Practicum. Completed with Elena Millie in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress. View photo documentation.
Digital Imaging Archivist. In Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress. Digitized glass negatives from the George Grantham Bain Collection. About the Bain Collection and images.
Introduction to Black and White Photography
Professor: Henry Wessel. View images.
The Artist Book
Instructor: Andrew Hoyem, Proprietor of San Francisco’s Arion Press.
Bachelor of Fine Art in Graphic Design
Influential Professors: Brian Slawson, Maria Rogal, Tony Shipp, Sammy Barkin, Ido Oren
Full-time Art and Design Internship (CIA: DI, DS&T)
Artist Residency at The Atlantic Center for the Arts with Douglas Coupland and David Carson
Study Abroad at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands