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Tune into the Funeral Service Insider podcast for my conversation on American graves, cemetery tours, human remains in museums, and more. Listen here!
Tune into the Funeral Service Insider podcast for my conversation on American graves, cemetery tours, human remains in museums, and more. Listen here!
I collaborated with my friend Bronwyn Hazelwood on a brand new zine: Manhole Covers: The World Underfoot! It brings together my photos and writing about manhole covers I’ve seen around the world with Bronwyn’s illustrations, all to celebrate the humble art of utilitarian design. You can pick up a copy here!
I covered the Getty’s exhibition on blood that combines medieval manuscripts with modern and contemporary art. Check out the story on the Art Newspaper with some of the compelling images about how blood remains a provocative, often taboo visual subject and material.
American Cemetery & Cremation magazine profiled me in their latest issue, in which I talk all about my thoughts on the grave! We cover zines, tour guiding, and why I wanted to do a cemetery book tour.
I wrote a preview for the Art Newspaper on the new Harlem Renaissance exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. Read here about how it came together, particularly through loans from traditionally Black colleges that collected works that major institutions overlooked.
I’m excited to be kicking off the Last Tuesday Society’s Supernatural Mystery Symposium, an online series curated by Shannon Taggart that brings together talks that were part of last summer’s event in the Spiritualist community of Lily Dale, New York. I’ll be speaking on March 3 about the future of the grave, with many fantastic talks to follow on occult collections, music channeled from other worlds, Shaker manifestations, and much more.
The winter issue of Fine Books & Collections magazine—a publication I started editing last year—is out now! I’m proud of how this one came together with a wide range of stories that explore the diverse world of books and collecting. Pick up a copy here (love live print!). I also contributed a short piece about an ephemera archive in San Francisco.
Jessica Mesman at the Christian Century wrote a review of Grave that you can check out here. She kindly calls it “a digestible history and literary tour of American funerary practices, but it’s not just that. It’s also a case for the dignity of the human person beyond death and a call to keep the dead in community with the living.”
I covered a new project at the National WWII Museum in New Orleans that is using AI to engage visitors with oral histories of veterans and others who served during the conflict. Read the story online and in print with the Art Newspaper.
On March 13, 2024, I’ll be joining Arnos Vale Cemetery in Bristol for an online talk about the grave’s transformation. Get tickets here!
This October, I joined the Thinking Allowed radio program from the BBC to talk about the history of the grave. Give it a listen as part of a fascinating lineup that also includes a conversation about memorial benches!