Profile
B.A. (1978) Boston College Certificate of Accomplishment, USDA Graduate School, Natural History Field Studies Program (1986)
Research Specialties
American conservation history
Civil War field printing
Federal printed imagery of the American West
Patent models and the graphic arts
Printing and printmaking history
Printing for the U.S. government
Printing and the natural sciences
Projects
Current Projects:
- Keeping History: Plains Indian Ledger Drawings, 2009, curator, exhibition and virtual exhibition
- Civil War Field Printing, 2008, curator, exhibition and virtual exhibition
- Picturing Words: The Power of Book Illustration, 2008, co-curator, Smithsonian Libraries exhibition and virtual exhibition
- Printing Matrices for the Narrative of the U.S. Exploring Expedition, curator, web object group
- "Publishing the U.S. Exploring Expedition: the Fruits of the Glorious Enterprise," Printing History, January 2008
Past Projects:
- The Feather Trade and the American Conservation Movement, 1999, curator, exhibition and virtual exhibition
- Rube Goldberg, Comic Art and Invention, 2000, curator, exhibition
Professional Affiliations
American Printing History Association
American Printing History Association, Chesapeake Chapter
The Washington Print Club