Leslie-Lohman Museum
Leslie-Lohman Museum
The Leslie-Lohman Museum is the world's only museum dedicated to preserving and exhibiting queer art and fostering the artists who create it. From 2015-2017, I acted as Director of Operations, and in 2017, Facade Commission Manager. Critical achievements included the Museum's expansion, expanding the Museum's collection to include gender diverse people of color, and managing #QueerPower, the Museum's annual facade commission project.
expansion
During the winter of 2016, the Museum doubled its square footage at a historic landmark building in SoHo. I facilitated the expansion in the following ways:
- oversight of architectural plans to meet Museum regulations and requirments
- IT, phone, security, A/V design and budget management
- 3rd party contractor solicitation and management
- day to day project management during construction
diversity
By providing access through my professional position to empower gender diverse POC artists to contribute to the Museum's Collection, I fostered a growing spectrum of inclusion within the Museum’s culture and representation — which was previously dominated a gay/lesbian binary. One such instance involved Meg Turner and Courtney Webster; their work, as seen above, highlights a gender non-conforming person of color in a positions of traditionally ascribed masculine power. In addition to this being the first of its kind for the Museum's Collection, the resulting institutional support created critical visibility for these artists.
For more info on Meg and Courtney's work, pictured above, contact Meg here.
#queerpower
In the summer of 2017, I facilitated #QueerPower, the Museum's inaugural facade commission project uplifting the iconic work of the Silence=Death Collective. In addition to working with the Collective to wrap the entire facade of the Museum with their work, I secured and managed all of the operational logistics of shutting down Wooster St between Grand and Canal for the Museum's block party celebration, for which Silence=Death was featured. Arts programming for this event was directed by the brilliant Kris Grey.
