Selected Writing
Reviews
A constellation of mother figures
(The Chicago Reader, 2026)
Small Art, Big Energy: A review of Barely Fair
(Sixty Inches From Center, 2023)
Our selfies, ourselves
(The Chicago Reader, 2023)
Finding Power in Pushing Back: At FLXST Contemporary, seven artists find community in the margins
(The Chicago Reader, 2022)
What does freedom look like?: A group exhibition at Weinberg/Newton Gallery spotlights how incarceration impacts youth
(The Chicago Reader, 2022)
Memory’s Keeper: A Review of “Remnants” at Heaven Gallery
(Newcity Art, 2022)
Review: I don’t know you like that: The Bodywork of Hospitality
(Sixty Inches From Center, 2022)
Review: We forgot the moon while holding up the sun
(Sixty Inches From Center, 2021)
Boundary Crossing: A Review of Christina Quarles at the MCA
(Newcity, Art, 2021)
Review: 36° 15’ 43” N 29° 59’ 14” E at Goldfinch Gallery
(Sixty Inches From Center, 2021)
Out of Time by Cass Davis at Aspect/Ratio Gallery
(Sixty Inches From Center, 2020)
Building Community: A Review of Balkrishna Doshi at Wrightwood 659
(Newcity Art, 2020)
Continuously Becoming: A Review of “Nine Lives” at the Renaissance Society
(Newcity Art, 2020)
Essays
Interviews
Archival Practices to “Make Alive” the Dead
(Hellmouth Magazine, 2026)
For Your Bookshelf: 10 Art Books Published in 2025
(Create! Magazine, 2025)
How Project Onward’s artists with disabilities strengthen each other
(The Chicago Sun-Times, 2022)
With Tala, Francine Almeda bring her curatorial eye to West Town
The Chicago Reader, 2023)
Lot’sa: Sharing Skills, Building Community
(The Chicago Reader, 2024)
Artist Residencies, Collaboration, and Alternative Models of Education
(Lumpen Magazine + Sixty Inches From Center, 2020)
Demystifying Artists’ Labor
(Create! Magazine, Issue #42)
Essay: A Note on Growth
(Create! Magazine, Issue #35)
Jacqueline Surdell: Weaving Together the Unlikely
(Create! Magazine)
Proof: Indianapolis Poets Chantel Massey & Mitchell L.H. Douglas on Midwest Lit Fest
(Sixty Inches From Center, 2024)
Approaches and Strategies within Hospitality: An Interview with Curator Sylvie Fortin
(Sixty Inches From Center, 2022)
An Object is No Lifeless Thing: Emily Blair Quinn on Memory, Figurines, and the Female Gaze
(Create! Magazine, Issue #49)
Show Me What Love Looks Like: A Conversation with Asha Iman Veal About Curating Love
(Create! Magazine, Issue #42)
Using Humor as an Access Point: A Conversation with Performance Artist Bridget Moser
(Create! Magazine, Issue #40)
Collaborating with Nature & Creating Community: Cyrah Dardas
(Create! Magazine, Issue #38)
Grief, Longing, & Growing Within It All: Interview with Elsa Muñoz
(Create! Magazine, Issue #35)
Art Making, Energy Healing, & the Magic of the Universe: Rhonda Wheatley
(Create! Magazine, Issue #34)
Works Cited: The Rocket’s Red Glare by Barbara Diener
(Sixty Inches From Center, 2020)
Other bylines include: Ruckus Journal, BRIDGE (Volume 22, #1), THE SEEN Journal, Feature Shoot, and more.