Upcoming Speaking Events:

March 10, 2026, Massachusetts College of Art & Design, FiberS Department, “Curatorial Practice and Navigating Life Post-Graduation”

Past Speaking Events:

August 31, 2024, Schweinfurth Art Center, Beyond the Surface - Artists’ Talk, Moderator

October 30, 2023, Textile Society of America Colloquium, (re)Imagining Futures: Shifting Methodologies, program chair

October 11, 2022, TEXTILE SOCIETY OF AMERICA & The Textile Museum, Contemporary Voices: Jovencio de la paz

September 13, 2022, TEXTILE SOCIETY OF AMERICA & The Textile Museum, Contemporary Voices: Fabiola Jean-Louis

March 8, 2022, TEXTILE SOCIETY OF AMERICA & The Textile Museum, Contemporary Voices: Angela Hennessy

October 12, 2021, TEXTILE SOCIETY OF AMERICA & The Textile Museum, Contemporary Voices: Cayce ZAvaglia

September 29, 2021, Textile Talk: Demystifying + Democratizing Craft Collecting with the James Renwick Alliance for Craft

September 14, 2021, TEXTILE SOCIETY OF AMERICA & The Textile Museum, Contemporary Voices: Tanya Aguiñiga

June 2, 2021, Textile society of america’s Graduation Gathering

May 18, 2021, The Journal of Modern Craft and Garland Magazine, REINVENTING THE WHEEL: THE ART OF MASKS

May 18, 2021, James Renwick Alliance for craft, “A Vision for Contemporary Textile aRT”

May 4, 2021, TEXTILE SOCIETY OF AMERICA & The Textile Museum, Contemporary Voices: Ai Kijima 

april 9, 2021, The Textile Museum, “A Vision for Contemporary Textile aRT”

APRIL 6, 2021, TEXTILE SOCIETY OF AMERICA & The Textile Museum, Contemporary Voices: Guillermo bert

MARCH 21, 2021, James renwick alliance for craft, distinguished artistS series: bisa butler

March 2, 2021, TEXTILE SOCIETY OF AMERICA & The Textile Museum, Contemporary Voices: DIEDRICK BRACKENS

February 2, 2021, TEXTILE SOCIETY OF AMERICA & The Textile Museum, Contemporary Voices: Anne Wilson

February 1, 2021, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Fiber Department, “Museums, Curators, Exhibitions, Acquisitions, & Studio vISITS”

December 8, 2020, Smithsonian American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery & the textile museum, Renwick Invitational 2020 Conversation: Rowland Ricketts and Emily Zilber

October 27, 2020, The Textile Museum & Jane Addams Hull-house museum, Contemporary Voices: Aram Han Sifuentes

October 20, 2020, The Textile Museum & Transformer, Queer Threads: Fresh Voices

October 17, 2020, Textile Society of America Symposium, Session Chair for “Individual Papers: Practices”

October 16, 2020, Textile Society of America Symposium, Session Chair for “Individual Papers: Craftivism”

October 15, 2020, Textile Society of America Symposium, Session Chair for “Individual Papers: Journeys”

October 13, 2020, Cornell College, The art of masks

October 6, 2020, The Textile Museum & Transformer, Queer Threads: Past, Present, Future

September 22, 2020, Day Eight Arts Journalism Conference, Review of Craft Panel

September 10, 2020, MICA, Fiber Department, “Social Distancing Studio Visits: artists & COVID-19”

August 27, 2020, SAQA, Tea with Martha, “A Vision for Contemporary Textiles”

JULY 7-8, 15-16, & 20, 2020, The Textile Museum, The Art of Masks

January 27, 2020, Embassy of Sweden, Washington DC, Craftivism – Creating a Better World One Stitch at a Time

March 8, 2019, MFA Boston, International Women’s Day at the MFA

March 3, 2019, MFA Boston, Studio Craft and Beyond

February 27, 2019, MFA Boston, Shadows of Memory: Randal Thurston’s Cut Paper

February 3, 2019, MFA Boston, Catherine Opie’s Yosemite

December 19, 2018, MFA Boston, Jack Bush: Radiant Abstraction

December 1, 2018, MFA Boston, Lorraine O’Grady: Family Gained

November 11, 2018, MFA Boston, Curated Conversations: Quipus: Ancient and Contemporary

June 23, 2018, MFA Boston, Playing with Color: Riley and Frankenthaler

April 1, 2018, MFA BOSTON, Monumental Gestures: Yoan Capote and Donald Moffett

March 8, 2018, MFA BOSTON, MFA Activation for Women's Day