BOOKS

Clavir, Miriam. Preserving What Is Valued: Museums, Conservation, and First Nations. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2008. 

Flecker, Lara. A Practical Guide to Costume Mounting. London: Routledge, 2013. 

Landi, Sheila. The Textile Conservator’s Manual . London: Butterworth-Heinemann, 1997. 

Lennard, Frances, Patricia Ewer, and Laura Mina, eds. Textile conservation: Advances in Practice. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2024. 

Richmond, Alison, and Alison Bracker, eds. Conservation: Principles, Dilemmas and Uncomfortable Truths. Abgington, Oxforshire: Routledge, 2020. 

Tishman, Shari. Slow looking: The Art and Practice of Learning Through Observation. New York, NY: Routledge, 2018. 

EXHIBITIONS 

Gala Porras-Kim: Precipitation for an Arid Landscape. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Radcliffe Institute, 14 February 2022 - June 30 2022

Well/Being: An Exhibition on Healing and Repair. Albany, NY: University Art Museum, August 4 2021 - 11 December 2021

Less Than Perfect. Ann Arbor, MA: University of Michigan, 2016-2017

EXHIBITION GUIDE 

Cloth That Stretches: Weaving Community Across Time and Space. Berkeley, CA: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, 13 February 2020 - 21 June 2020. 

Traces of Displacement. Manchester: the Whitworth, 7 April 2023-12 May 2024. 

SOUND

   Belli, Olivia. Daguérrotype: 2 Juliette (acoustic instrumental), YouTube, 2019.

   Jones, Tom. I Won’t Crumble With You If You Fall (Live from Real World Studios), YouTube, 2021.

   Santiago, Felipe Perez. Cicatrice, Soundcloud, 2012.

ARTICLES 

Bean, Susan S. “Gandhi and Khadi, the Fabric of Indian Independence.” Essay. In Cloth and Human Experience, 355–76. Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989. 

Goggin, Maureen Daly. “Suturing a Wounded Body—Wounded Mind in Red Silk on White Linen: Embodied and Hand(y) Knowledge of Trauma.” Linguaculture 2012, no. 1 (January 1, 2012). https://doi.org/10.2478/v10318-012-0016-4. 

Holly, Michael Ann. “Mourning and Method.” The Art Bulletin 84, no. 4 (2002): 660–69. https://doi.org/10.2307/3177289.

Holm, Christiane. “Sentimental Cuts: Eighteenth-Century Mourning Jewelry with Hair.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 38, no. 1 (2004): 139–43. http://www.jstor.org/stable/30053632.

Lutz, Deborah. “THE DEAD STILL AMONG US: VICTORIAN SECULAR RELICS, HAIR JEWELRY, AND DEATH CULTURE.” Victorian Literature and Culture 39, no. 1 (2011): 127–42. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41307854.

Renken, Sophie. “The Performativity of Hair in Victorian Mourning Jewellery.” The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, June 4, 2021.

Sheumaker, Helen. “‘This Lock You See’: Nineteenth-Century Hair Work as the Commodified Self.” Fashion Theory 1, no. 4 (November 1997): 421–45. https://doi.org/10.2752/136270497779613620. 

Smith, Rachel. “Eighteenth Century Objects of Grief: Beyond the Mourning Ring.” New Directions in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Art, October 29, 2021. https://ndenca.wordpress.com/blog-2/. 

WEBSITES 

Carr, Karen. “Why Visiting a Museum Is Like Seeing My Friends in Jail.” Hyperallergic, July 20, 2021. https://hyperallergic.com/661952/why-visiting-a-museum-is-like-seeing-my-friends-in-jail/. 

Ramos, Sam. “Why Connecting Legal and Medical Professionals to Art Is Essential.” Hyperallergic, August 24, 2021. https://hyperallergic.com/671020/why-connecting-legal-and-medical-professionals-to-art-is-essential/. 

Suttie, Jill. “How Small Moments of Empathy Affect Your Life.” Greater Good, August 31, 2021. https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/how_small_moments_of_empathy_affect_your_life. 

Umolu, Yesomi. “On the Limits of Care and Knowledge: 15 Points Museums Must Understand to Dismantle Structural Injustice.” Artnet News, June 25, 2020. https://news.artnet.com/art-world-archives/limits-of-care-and-knowledge-yesomi-umolu-op-ed-1889739. 

Yancy, George. “Death Has Many Names .” The New York Times , February 14, 2021. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/14/opinion/Yoruba-religion-death.html.