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“The Night Harriet Tubman Made History”
Picturing Freedom: Harriet Tubman and the Tombahee River Raid, Gibbes Museum, Charleston South Carolina
organized by guest curator Vanessa Thaxton-Ward and Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Dr. Edda Fields-Black to accompany the recently published COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War (2024), 2025
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“Beverly Buchanan’s Architecture of Care”
Her practice was one of embodied noticing — exploring, feeling out, or reaching longingly for a Southern architectural vernacular.
Beverly’s Athens, University of Georgia’s Athenaeum
Curated by Mo Costello and Katz Tepper, 2026
Sixty Inches From Center
“A Review of Artist Run Spaces at the Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati”
The show explores artist-run spaces throughout Ohio and northern Kentucky — spaces where exhibitions, poetry readings, radical events, teachings, concerts, and other forms of cultural community organizing occur on a quasi-regular basis.
Newcity / brasil
NewCity (Chicago, IL and Brazil)
Planting the Seed of Desire: A Review of “Chico da Silva: Amazônian Legend” at KMAC, Louisville
“Emil Robinson: Evidence” Weston Art Gallery. Cincinnati, Ohio, 2023
“Based on a True Story. . . “ at MCA (Chicago, IL) 2022
“Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground” at Kavi Gupta (Chicago, IL) 2022
“Soft Tread” at latent space (Chicago, IL). 2022
“Wayfinding” at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation (St. Louis, MS) 2021
“Olly Olly Oxen Free” at Institute 193 (Lexington, KY). 2021
“All of the Useless Things Are Mine: A Book of Seventeens.” Review. Thomas Walton and Douglas Miller. 2020
GINGER, ISSUE 19, WINTER 2020. Chicago and Bushwick.
“of an event; assigned a date too early.” science fiction. 2018
AEQAI: Periodical; Greater Cincinnati Region
Promise, Witness, Remembrance. Speed Museum. Louisville, Kentucky. 2021
Q&A: Kiah Celeste and Material Agency. 2020
Tala Madani and her Théâtre de la Cruauté in Projections. 2020
ALL THINGS ARE DELICATELY INTERCONNECTED: Jenny Holzer // Wanda Orme Earth Day and COVID-19. 2020.
Your Past Needs You: “Cat Mummies Came First” at Sheherazade. 2020
September Diencephalon at Institute 193. 2019.
Keltie Ferris: *O*P*E*N* at the Speed Art Museum: Casualist Painting / Not-cAsual SetTing. 2018
Artist Interview for Aeqai: Megan Bickel interviews Photographer, Bill Daniel. 2018
KMAC Couture: Art Walks the Runway: An Interview with designers Liz Richter and Lilly Kass. 2018.
Critical Mass II // Critical Discourse and Engagement in Kentucky. 2018
Sweet Dreams // Sheherazade // Louisville KY. 2018
Nick Cave: FEAT. // The Frist Center for Visual Art // Nashville, Tennesse. 2018
BRUCE CONNER: FOREVER AND EVER // Speed Art Museum. 2018
Failure in Progress // Zephyr Gallery. 2017
Team B Architecture and Design. 2017
Gibbs Rounsavall. 2017
Joyce Garner, cul-de-sac at Garner Narrative Contemporary Fine Art Louisville, Kentucky 2017
Paul Mpagi Sepuya: Portraits / Positions In Conjunction with the Louisville Biennial. 2017
Sarah Martin: Expectations at The McGrath Gallery at Bellarmine University. 2017
Poetry in Bars and Other Solutions. 2017
99 Cents or Less // MOCAD. 2017
Southern Elegy: The Stephen Reily Collection // Speed Museum at University of Louisville. 2017
Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft // The Drawing Center: “Thread Lines.” 2017
Maxime Van Melkebeke. 2017
Zephyr Gallery: Project 17: Ritual Geography. 2017
Fern Canyon: Paintings by Claire Sherman at the KMAC. 2017
Paige Williams. 2017