Editing + Proofreading

I offer a range of editorial services for both print and online projects, from proofreading and “light” copyediting focused on correcting errors and inconsistencies to “heavy” or substantive editing that refines the tone, logic, and flow of the text. For clients tackling a website redesign or planning a new print publication, I can provide a structural assessment of existing content and recommend more efficient and effective ways to communicate through text and visual media. In addition to the freelance and contract work highlighted here, I’ve held senior in-house editorial positions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2010), UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (2002–10), and Reel.com (1997–98). For more information or to request a copy of my complete CV, please get in touch.

Editing

  • BAMPFA Program Guide (quarterly magazine and web content covering screenings, exhibitions, and events), 2017–2021
  • Revoliutsiia! Demonstratsiia! Soviet Art Put to the Test (exhibition catalogue), Art Institute of Chicago, 2017
  • For Our Time: Transforming the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (commemorative book), SFMOMA, 2016
  • Architecture of Life (exhibition catalogue), BAMPFA, 2016
  • Disney and Dalí: Architects of the Imagination (wall texts), Walt Disney Family Museum, 2015
  • Discovering Georgian Cinema (film series catalogue), BAMPFA, 2014
  • Open Space (blog posts), SFMOMA, 2011–14
  • Water to Paper, Paint to Sky: The Art of Tyrus Wong (wall texts), Walt Disney Family Museum, 2013
  • Beyond Belief (wall texts), Contemporary Jewish Museum, 2013
  • Dreams Come True (wall texts), Disney Animation Research Library, 2013
  • Barry McGee (exhibition catalogue), BAMPFA, 2012
  • Do Not Destroy: Trees, Art, and Jewish Thought (exhibition catalogue and wall texts), Contemporary Jewish Museum, 2012
  • Paradigm Shifts: Walter and McBean Galleries Exhibitions and Public Programs, 2006–2011 (exhibition catalogue), San Francisco Art Institute, 2011
  • California Dreaming (wall texts), Contemporary Jewish Museum, 2011
  • Less and More: The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams (wall texts), SFMOMA, 2011
  • Francesca Woodman (wall texts), SFMOMA, 2011
  • Charlotte Salomon: Life? or Theatre? (exhibition catalogue and wall texts), Contemporary Jewish Museum, 2011

Proofreading

  • Joan Brown (exhibition catalogue), SFMOMA, 2022
  • Focus on Japanese Photography (digital publication), SFMOMA, 2021
  • Joseph E. Yoakum: What I Saw (exhibition catalogue), Art Institute of Chicago, 2021
  • In a Cloud, in a Wall, in a Chair: Six Modernists in Mexico at Midcentury (exhibition catalogue), Art Institute of Chicago, 2019
  • N. C. Wyeth: New Perspectives (exhibition catalogue), Brandywine River Museum of Art / Portland Museum of Art, 2019
  • Hairy Who? 1966–1969 (exhibition catalogue), Art Institute of Chicago, 2018
  • Charles White: A Retrospective (exhibition catalogue), Art Institute of Chicago, 2018
  • A Home for Surrealism: Fantastic Painting in Midcentury Chicago (exhibition catalogue), Arts Club of Chicago, 2018
  • Soundtracks (online exhibition catalogue), SFMOMA, 2017
  • Gauguin Paintings, Sculpture, and Graphic Works at the Art Institute of Chicago (online collection catalogue), Art Institute of Chicago, 2017
  • Heaven and Hell: Salvation and Retribution in Pure Land Buddhism (exhibition catalogue), San Antonio Museum of Art, 2017
  • A New American Sculpture, 1914–1945: Lachaise, Laurent, Nadelman, and Zorach (exhibition catalogue), Portland Museum of Art / Amon Carter Museum of American Art, 2017
  • America after the Fall: Painting in the 1930s (exhibition catalogue), Art Institute of Chicago, 2016
  • No Limits: Zao Wou-Ki (exhibition catalogue), Colby College Museum of Art/Asia Society, 2016
  • A Usable Past: American Folk Art at the Colby College Museum of Art (exhibition catalogue), Colby College Museum of Art, 2016
  • Highest Heaven: Spanish and Portuguese Colonial Art from the Collection of Roberta and Richard Huber (exhibition catalogue), San Antonio Museum of Art, 2016
  • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 360°: Views on the Collection (collection catalogue), SFMOMA, 2016
  • The Collection: Highlights from the Portland Museum of Art (collection catalogue), PMA (Maine), 2015
  • Rauschenberg Research Project (online collection catalogue), SFMOMA, 2013
  • Jasper Johns: Seeing with the Mind’s Eye (exhibition catalogue), SFMOMA, 2012
  • Francesca Woodman (exhibition catalogue), SFMOMA, 2011
  • The Air We Breathe: Artists and Poets Reflect on Marriage Equality (exhibition catalogue), SFMOMA, 2011
  • The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde (exhibition catalogue), SFMOMA, 2011
  • Create (exhibition catalogue), BAMPFA, 2011

Web Content Strategy

  • Planned, created, and managed site content, @Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz, FOR-SITE Foundation, 2014
  • Analyzed, reorganized, and revised institutional content in preparation for building closure, expansion, and capital campaign, SFMOMA, 2013
  • Assessed and redeveloped content for site relaunch, FOR-SITE Foundation, 2013
  • Consulted on and wrote copy for project website, International Orange, FOR-SITE Foundation, 2012