library projects

Co-founded with Jennifer Sauzer and In residence at Columbia College Chicago from 2014-2022, the Aesthetics of Research was an initiative designed to explore the connection between resources and artists, as well as the role libraries play in forming and sustaining creative communities.  Programming included semesterly arts focus topics, exhibits, artist panels, workshops, resource sharing, and more. Visit:  The Aesthetics of Research 

Programming and Exhibit Focus Topics

Uncanny Specimens:  Taxidermy, Preservation, & Play

Game On: A Miscellany of Tabletop, Board, and Card Game Art

HOAX!: Conspiracies, Illusions, and Creative Hi-Jinks

Tattoo: Ink, Art, & Object

Apocalypse, USA

Beautiful Monstrosities:  From She-Beasts to Final Girls

Strange Fevers: Mass Delusions, Confusions, & Obsessions

Lethal Ladies: Women of True Crime

Future Tense: Imagined Worlds from the Margins

ARTIVISM 2020

Urban Legends:  From Playground Lore to Cultural Norms

Bad Art: Kitsch, Camp, & Craft

Library Publications

Libraries and Curated Learning Initiatives:  The Bridge Between Instruction & Programming, ALA Programming Librarian (November 2021).

LIBRAS Member Spotlight (September 2020)

*Taking Academic Library Programs Online: Covid-19 and Beyond, ALA Programming Librarian

*Quick & Dirty Marketing for Your Library's Arts Programming (@ Library As Incubator)

*Creating Original Murder Mysteries in the Library  (@ ALA Programming Library Guide)

*Strictly Analog |  Developing a Gaming Program at your Library (@ Library As Incubator)

*Hosting A Library Zine Night  (@ ALA Programming Librarian Guide)

*How to Run your Own ARTCACHE Program (@ ALA Programming Librarian Guide)

*The Aesthetics of Research at Columbia College, Library As Incubator 

Presentations, Conferences, Panels, etc.

"Breaking Canons & Building Community:  Zines, DEI, and Academic Libraries,"  Illinois Library Association Noon Networking Webinar (January, 2022)

"Breaking Canons & Building Community:  Zines, DEI, and Academic Libraries" Transformative Learning through Zines, Humanities Research Institute, University of Illinois. (October, 2021)

"Breaking Canons & Building Community:  Zines, DEI, and Academic Libraries" Illinois Library Association Virtual Poster Session (October, 2021).

"Library Marketing:  The Covid-19 Edition"  and "Lessons From Lockdown:  Marketing When the Library is Closed", Special Libraries Association Conference, ( August, 2021)

"Curated Learning and Social Media in the Academic Library" Illinois Library Association Virtual Poster Session (October 2020)

"Virtual Exhibits & More at Columbia College Library" LIBRAS Liberal Knowledge Exchange (Summer 2020)

Illinois Library Association Poster Session, "Curated Learning and the Library" (October, 2019)

Chicago Research Summit, "Zines, Libraries, and the Chicago Community" (October, 2019)

ALA Conference Poster Session, "Arts and the Academic Library" (Summer, 2017)





Awards & Honors

Vattemare Award for Creativity in Libraries Winner,  2019

Editor/Designer/Coordinator, Columbia College Library's Winning ACRL Excellence in Libraries Award Application 2017