Hello!

My name is Nina and I am the Kress Museum Interpreatation Fellow at the High Museum of Art (check out our Google + page here).

I am originally from Brooklyn, New York and grew up in a little neighborhood called Gravesend. I studied Art History and English at Swarthmore College and graduated in 2014 from Williams College with my M.A. in the History of Art. While there, I was focusing my research around issues of the body in art, phenomenology, memory, and trauma. I wrote my qualifying paper on British Sculptor Rachel Whiteread's Holocaust memorial in Vienna, Austria. I am also interested in gender, feminist, and queer theory and am especially interested in the ways that critical theory might help inform interpretive practice in cultural institutions.

I have previously worked at the Williams College Museum of Art, Central Booking Art Space, the Smith College Museum of Art, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art. I am currently working at the High Museum of Art, where I have worked on the interpretive programs for Gordon Parks:Segregation Story and Leonard Freed: Black in White America. I am very interested in the capacity of art to incite multi-disciplinary dialogues and am also dedicated to pushing at, and challenging, the ways in which we interpret cultural objects, both within museums, and elsewhere. I am constantly asking: What forms might interpretation take? What venues and through what kinds of platforms might we use to engage in interpretive practice? And, how can the work being done in museums, carry forth into all aspects of social and cultural change?

I also write poetry, am an aspiring gardener and dedicated terrarium maker, am an avid collector of antiques and oddities, and I love to cook (mostly vegetarian)!