SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & DIGITAL MEDIA

Director and lead exhibition designer of 11 formal display areas, with additional pop-up and flex spaces, spread across 6 buildings. Web designer for online exhibitions. Occasional curator.

EXHIBITIONS

“Lynching in Alachua County.” 2024. permanent installation, Alachua County Administration Building, Gainesville, FL. Developed as part of the 2023 graduate Exhibitions Seminar in Museum Studies, in partnership with the Alachua County Community Remembrance Project.

“Diaspora Dishes: Remembering Home.” September 15, 2023 - December 15, 2023. Smathers Library Gallery, University of Florida. Curators: Katiana Bagué, Melissa Jerome, Lourdes Santamaría-Wheeler, and Margarita Vargas-Betancourt.

Presence/Erasure: Black History in St. Augustine.” July 15, 2022 – September 16, 2022. Smathers Library Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Curators: Laura Marion and Casey Wooster with assistance from Antonette Jones.

“Afrofuturism: Creativity of the Black Mind.” June 17, 2022 - October 28, 2023. Smathers Library Lobby, University of Florida. Curator: Antonette Jones under the guidance of Lourdes Santamaría-Wheeler.

“40 years 40 objects The Price Library of Judaica.” March 8, 2021 – July 1, 2021. Smathers Library Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Curator: Rebecca J. W. Jefferson.

“Let’s Talk About Sex.” August 31, 2020 – December 15, 2020. Smathers Library Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Curator: Hunter McDaniel.

“John David Ridge: A Life in Costume.” January 21, 2020 – April 27, 2020. Smathers Library Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Curator: Jim Liversidge.

“Bo Diddley: An American Original.” April 1, 2019 – June 21, 2019. Smathers Library Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Curators: Jim Liversidge and Florence M. Turcotte.

“An American Canal in Panama.” March 16, 2019 – February 23, 2020. Albert H. Nahmad Panama Canal Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Curators: Elizabeth A. Bouton, John Nemmers, and Lourdes Santamaría-Wheeler.

“Ediciones Vigía.” January 7, 2019 – March 22, 2019. Smathers Library, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Curator: Lourdes Santamaría-Wheeler.

“Inspired by Cuba!” January 7, 2019 – April 5, 2019. Smathers Library, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Curator: Lourdes Santamaría-Wheeler.

“Lincoln High School: A Metaphor for Excellence.” November 2, 2018 – June 30, 2019. A. Quinn Jones Museum & Cultural Center, Gainesville, FL. Curators: Diedre Houchen and Florence M. Turcotte.

“Black Educators: Florida's Secret Social Justice Advocates 1920-1960.” October 22, 2018 – December 18, 2018. Smathers Library Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Curators: Diedre Houchen and Florence M. Turcotte.

“Racism, Representation, and Resistance in Children’s Literature 1800 – 2015.” August 13, 2018 – October 5, 2018. Smathers Library Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Curators: Suzan Alteri, Stephanie Birch, and Hélène Huet.

“Florida Tourism | Sunshine and Shadows.” October 13, 2017 – December 14, 2017. Smathers Library Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Curators: Briley Rasmussen and Lourdes Santamaría-Wheeler.

“Bob Campbell's Photographs of Dian Fossey's Karisoke Research Center, 1968 – 1972.” September 18, 2017 – February 9, 2018. Smathers Library, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Curators: Dan Reboussin and Richard Freeman, with assistance from Riley Ravary.

“Between Two Oceans.” April 1, 2017 – February 17, 2018. Albert H. Nahmad Panama Canal Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Curator: Elizabeth A. Bouton, with assistance from Jessica Marcetti and Lourdes Santamaría-Wheeler.

“The Cuban American Dream.” March 27 – June 2, 2017. Smathers Library Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Curator: Margarita Vargas-Betancourt, with assistance from Alexis Baldacci.

“Beetle | Book | Bark.” January 9 – March 10, 2017. Smathers Library Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Curators: Jiri Hulcr and John Nemmers.

“Why (not) Argentina?” August 8 – September 19, 2016. Smathers Library Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Curator: Katalin Rac.

“Capturing Nature: The Insect World in Children’s Literature.” March 15 – June 16, 2016. Marston Science Library, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Curators: Andrea Lucky, Brielle Jenkins, and Tara Cataldo, with assistance from Suzan A. Alteri.

“Literature of Rural Florida.” April 22 – June 3, 2016. Smathers Library Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Curator: Valrie Minson, with assistance from Jim Cusick and Flo Turcotte.

“Science is the Religion of our Time: Einstein in Japan.” November 16, 2015 – January 22, 2016. Marston Science Library, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Curator: Rebecca Jefferson.

“Subverting the Natural Order.” November 2, 2015 – December 18, 2015. Smathers Library Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Curators: Suzan A. Alteri and Dr. Alan Rauch.

“Government House and the Stories of St. Augustine.” August 24, 2015 – October 23, 2015. Smathers Library Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Curators: Matt Armstrong, Tom Caswell, Jim Cusick, and John Nemmers.

“Documenting Presence: Panama Canal Portraits 1909 – 1955.” March 20 – September 11, 2015. Tampa International Airport Gallery, Tampa, FL. Curator: Lourdes Santamaría-Wheeler, with assistance from Amara McMann.

“Voices from the Panama Canal” August 11, 2014 – October 24, 2014. Smathers Library Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Curators: Margarita Vargas-Betancourt and Paul Losch.

“Revolucionarias: Women and the Formation of the Cuban Nation” March 31, 2014 – May 23, 2014. Smathers Library Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Curators: Margarita Vargas-Betancourt and Lillian Guerra.

 

ONLINE EXHIBITIONS & DIGITAL MEDIA

Guts & Ambition: 50 Years of the Independent Florida Alligator” 2023. Curators: Melissa Jerome, April Hines, and Sarah “Moxy” Moczygemba. Designer: Lourdes Santamaría-Wheeler and Katiana Bagué.

Freedom is Not Free: Ax Handle Saturday” 2022. Curator: Antonette Jones. Designer: Lourdes Santamaría-Wheeler and Antonette Jones.

40 years 40 objects The Price Library of Judaica” 2021. Curator: Curator: Rebecca J. W. Jefferson. 

Black Thursday: UF’s Black Campus Movement” 2020. Curators: Stephanie Birch and Jana Ronan.

The Haitian American Dream” 2020. Curators: Alexandra Cenatus, Ivanna Moreno, and Margarita Vargas-Betancourt.

Pioneering Bilingualism | Bilingüismo Pionero” 2019. Curators: Brittany Kester and Pia Molina.

Black Educators: Florida’s Secret Social Justice Advocates, 1920-1960” 2019. Curators: Diedre Houchen and Florence M. Turcotte.

Racism, Representation, and Resistance in Children’s Literature 1800 – 2015” 2018. Curators: Suzan Alteri, Stephanie Birch, and Hélène Huet.

The Cuban American Dream” 2018. Curators: Katiana Bagué and Alexis Baldacci.

Bob Campbell's Photographs of Dian Fossey's Karisoke Research Center, 1968 – 1972.” 2017. Curators: Dan Reboussin and Richard Freeman, with assistance from Riley Ravary.

The Gathering Storm: Jewish Life in Germany and Eastern Europe in the 1930s.” 2013. Curator: Rebecca Jefferson.

About Face: Revisiting Jamaica’s First Exhibition in Europe.” 2012. Curators: Dr. Petrine Archer and Claudia Hucke.

Souvenirs of Modern Asia: The Prints of Paul Jacoulet.” 2012. Curators: Dulce Román and Allysa Browne Peyton.

Korean Art: Collecting Treasures.” 2012. Curators: Jason Steuber, Allysa Browne Peyton, and Lourdes Santamaría-Wheeler.