Full CV
EDUCATION
University of California, Berkeley (2015-2018) - Master of Architecture (M.Arch - Option 3)
Hampshire College (2007-2011) - Bachelor of Arts. (concentrations in Art, Art Education, and Art History)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Loisos + Ubbelohde, Alameda, CA (June 2018 – April 2023) - Associate. Internationally respected and highly awarded small architecture firm specializing in consulting to other architects about energy, lighting, daylight, and sustainability. My primary work has been daylighting design and analysis. (see Project List)
Buttrick Projects Architecture + Design, Oakland, CA (summer 2016, summer 2017) - Intern. Drafting assistance on small-to-medium sized residential projects. (see Project List)
The Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA (summer 2016) - Center for Art and Inquiry Fellow.
The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Bethany, CT (June 2010 – August 2015) - Curatorial Assistant. Special areas of expertise included: Black Mountain College, Josef Albers's work in photography and his photographic materials, Albers's teaching methods.
Photography Department, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (November 2009 – January 2010) - Intern.
Looking Glass Arts Summer Filmmaking Camp, Boulder, CO. (2008 and 2009) - Teaching Assistant and Documentarian.
TEACHING
"Towards a More Inclusive Architectural Pedagogy," statement of teaching values, Summer 2020. [more]
Teacher, "Color in the Material and Digital Worlds", University of California, Berkeley. A 15-week class on color, taken by 16 graduate Architecture and Landscape Architecture students for credit. A completely original curriculum, with assignments, lectures, syllabus and activities developed mostly from scratch with some elements borrowed from Josef Albers, Johannes Itten, Hella Jongerius, and others. [more]
Facilitator and curator "Anxious Modernisms", University of California, Berkeley. 9-film series, with discussion component. This seminar, which I developed from scratch, examined the ways in which mid-century American, Italian, and French directors treated modernist architecture as a metaphor for the failed promises of modernity writ large. [more]
Graduate Student Instructor, "Arch 140: Energy and the Environment", University of California, Berkeley (spring 2017 and 2018)
Teacher and collaborating organizer, "Material Interests: Josef Albers as Artist and Educator", November 7-11, 2016, Bauhaus Dessau, Dessau Germany. 1-week workshop for the "Bauhaus-Agenten", a group of museum educators and art teachers. [more]
Workshop teacher and participant, "Begin Here: Assignments, Instructions, Prompts, and Cues from the Artist’s Classroom", January 2016, The Exploratorium, San Francisco.
Numerous workshops and classes based on Josef Albers's pedagogy, given independently or under the auspices of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation (2011-2015).
WRITING & PUBLICATIONS
Interior Lives: Women and Their Rooms in the Films of Éric Rohmer (2019-present, as yet unpublished) [more]
Michael Beggs and Julie J. Thomson, Weaving at Black Mountain College: Anni Albers, Trude Guermonprez, and Their Students, (Asheville: Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, 2023), planned publication date: September 2023. [more]
"A Quiet Place for Quiet Thinking" in Hannah Lack, ed., The Quiet House: Stillness in Lake Eden, (Asheville: Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center and Los Angeles: Atelier Éditions, 2022). [more] [link to book]
A Landscape of Attachments: Figuring Change in Rural America (Self-published, 2018). [more] [link to book]
"Sequence and Seeing: The Photocollages of Josef Albers," in Heinz Leisbrock, ed., Josef Albers : Interaction, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018) [more] [link to book]
"Following Others: Lessons from Sophie Calle's Suite Vénetienne," in Ground Up Issue 06: Of Process (2017). [more] [link]
"The Flattest Kind of Picture: Texture and Matière in Photography at Black Mountain College," in Julie J. Thomson, Begin to See: The Photographers of Black Mountain College (Asheville: Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, 2017). [more] [link]
Essays for "Begin Here: Assignments, Instructions, Prompts, and Cues from the Artist’s Classroom" for The Exploratorium, San Francisco. Essays on assignments and instructions written by John Cage, John Baldessari, Josef Albers, Anna Halprin, and others, to be published on the Exploratorium's website. They were never published. (2016)
"Josef Albers: Photographs of Matières" and "Josef Albers: Graphic Tectonic Lithographs" in Helen Molesworth and Ruth Erickson, eds., Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015). [link]
"Learning from the Master" in Samuele Boncompagni, ed., Josef Albers: arte come esperienza: i metodi di insegnamento di un maestro del Bauhaus (Milan: Silvana Editoriale, 2013). (I was uncredited co-editor on this book) [link]
An enhanced version of this catalogue published by the Albers Foundation under the title Imparare A Vedere / Learning to See, for which I also designed the cover. [link]
EXHIBITIONS
Weaving at Black Mountain College: Anni Albers, Trude Guermonprez, and Their Students - the first exhibition dedicated solely to the topic of weaving at the renowned art school Black Mountain College. Co-curated with Julie Jean Thomson. Scheduled to open September 29, 2023 at the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, Asheville, NC. [more] [exhibition announcement]
Berkeley Architecture Thesis Exhibition, CED Gallery, University of California, Berkeley, 2018 - work from Landscapes of Attachment. [more]
Americans on the Road 1950-1980, Wurster Hall, University of California, Berkeley, 2018 - exhibition on the architecture, geography, and culture of American roadside tourism and commerce, curated by Margaret Crawford. My contribution exhibited more than 200 slides by Chester Liebs.
Josef Albers: arte come esperienza: i metodi di insegnamento di un maestro del Bauhaus (Pinocateca Communale, Cittá di Castello, Italy, March-June 2013) traveled as Imparare a Vedere: Josef Albers professore dal Bauhaus a Yale (Accademia di Brera, Milan, Italy, September-December 2013) and Kunst als Ehrfahrung, Josef Albers als Lehrer (Josef Albers Museum Quadrat, Botrop, Germany, December 2013 - March 2014). Co-curated with Atlante Servizi Culturale (Cittá di Castello and Milan), Giovanni Iovane (Milan), and Heinz Liesbrock (Bottrop).
Abstraction by Subtraction, Hampshire College Art Gallery, Amherst, MA, March 2011. Curator of exhibition of more than 50 objects from the Hampshire College permanent collection.
TALKS
"Josef and Anni Albers on Sabbatical, September 1946 - January 1948," talk given October 7, 2022 at ReViewing Black Mountain College 13, hosted by the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, Asheville, NC. [more]
"In Search of Alex Reed," talk given November 13, 2021 at ReViewing Black Mountain College 12, hosted by the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, Asheville, NC. [more]
"What to Do When the Sky Is Blue", Talk given August 19, 2021 at the 19th International Radiance Workshop, Bilbao, Spain. [more]
"Color and Weltanschauung: General Education in Josef Albers's Color Course," talk given September 20, 2019 at ReViewing Black Mountain College 11, hosted by the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, Asheville, NC. [more]
Panelist, "Begin to See: Conversation", January 21, 2017, Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, Asheville, NC.
"Josef Albers and the Craft of Photography," talk given October 11, 2013 at ReViewing Black Mountain College 5, hosted by the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, Asheville, NC.
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Center for Art and Inquiry Fellow, The Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA, 2016.
Guest participant, "Josef Albers and Education Today: The Albers Colloquium", October 2-3, 2015, The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Bethany, CT, 2015.
Juror’s award, 25th Annual Photography Show, State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca, NY, 2014.
Participant, "Bauhaus School", a week-long international seminar for student art historians specializing in the Bauhaus, November 2009. The seminar was organized by the Bauhaus-Archiv Museum für Gestaltung Berlin, Berlin Germany, to celebrate the legendary art school's 90th anniversary. I was one of 10 student participants, and one of two from the United States.