2025
CityWorks, New York Hall of Science
This 6000+ sq. ft. exhibit, opening in 2025, addresses how New York City infrastructure runs and what keeps in moving.
Primary experience developer with the design and build partner, the Science Museum of Minnesota.
2025
Suds on the St. Croix, Washington County Historical Society
An exhibit about the history of brewing in Washington County, the families that brewed, and the economic/social impact of brewing.
Freelance exhibit developer, in partnership with Split Rock Studios, for schematic and design development,
2024
Going Out, Diving In, Minnesota History Magazine
Article in the Minnesota History Magazine (Minnesota Historical Society) detailing the storied history of three queer nightlife sites in Downtown Minneapolis.
2023
Going Out, Coming In: LGBTQ+ Spaces in Downtown Minneapolis
This exhibit, at Mill City Museum, details queer resistance, love, and identity formation amid the evolution of the neighborhood through the 20th century.
Sites are featured where queer people found or created community while addressing the systemic challenges of legal and extralegal discrimination, urban renewal, and HIV/AIDS.
This exhibit is part of an ongoing partnership between Twin Cities Pride and the Minnesota Historical Society (MNHS). It is inspired by the Twin Cities LGBTQ+ History Tours developed by TC Pride and MNHS in 2022.
2022
Twin Cities LGBTQ+ Digital History Maps
A collaboration between the Minnesota Historical Society and Twin Cities Pride, these tours locate fifty-eight sites of LGBTQ+ history in the Twin Cities with three digital story maps. The sites span the Twin Cities, range in date, and relate to a variety of themes, including protest/activism, legislation (both anti- and pro-LGBTQ+ rights), public sex, community resources, bars and nightlife, arts and culture, anti-LGBTQ+ violence, and HIV/AIDS, among others.
Ongoing
Queer History Bike Tours
The first queer history bike tour was a 10 mile bike ride, in collaboration with Perennial Cycle with over 70 riders throughout Minneapolis stopping at 9 locations to discuss aspects of Minneapolis’s queer past.
Since then, I have contracted more tours with Perennial for Minneapolis and St. Paul in addition to tours with other organizations with the Blake School for a teacher retreat.
2022
David Madson & AIDS Memorials
This research documents the life and work of David Madson. Madson was an architect and university student who designed an innovative AIDS memorial in 1997. David is more known for being the victim of the spree killer, Andrew Cunanan.
My research aims to restore an ethical memory of David as a whole person, decentering the circumstances of his death, while also highlighting the memorial he conceptualized in hopes for an AIDS memorial effort in Minnesota.
2019
FREE: Fight Repression of Erotic Expression, documentary and exhibit
In 1969, a class title “The Homosexual Revolution” sparked a Midwestern movement for gay liberation in the Twin Cities. Students for Democratic Society and Women’s Liberation activist, Koreen Phelps and anti-war activist, Stephen Ihrig founded F.R.E.E. with the intents of liberating the homosexual in all parts of society.
This documentary film focuses on their personal stories as they create the class and subsequent organization via Koreen’s oral history (Minnesota Historical Society, 1994) and a filmed interview with Stephen Ihrig (Noah Barth, 2018). The documentary production will be guided by a series of roundtable discussions with a paid community advisory board of youth LGBTQ+ activists and artists (courtesy of the Heritage Studies and Public History program and the Andrew Mellon Foundation).
The exhibition F.R.E.E: Remembering the History of Early LGBTQ Organizing in Minnesota is co-curated by Rachel Mattson (Tretter Collection for GLBT Studies) and Noah Barth in Andersen Library on the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus. The exhibition opened in June of 2019 and was accompanied by discussion between the curators published in the Queer Forms exhibition catalog.
2019
Calling to Question: 150 Years of Liberal Arts Education at The University of Minnesota
Ten different sets of records on the College of Liberal Arts were processed between January and August of 2018.
In September of 2018, a preview of Calling to Question titled “Portraits of the Past” opened in the Katherine E. Nash Gallery. This exhibit highlighted personal stories in the College of Liberal Arts through portraits to accompany a portrait exhibit in the gallery.
In March of 2019, Calling to Question opened in the James Ford Bell Gallery on the ground floor of Andersen Library on the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus. The exhibit confronted the purpose of liberal education and academic freedom.
The exhibit opened with exhibition talks, including a First Friday presentation at Andersen Library on the women that built the Ojibwe and Dakota language programs in the Department of American Indian Studies.
2017
Leather Archives and Museum Processing Projects
Processed The Steve Masters Ephemeral Collection, The Lenny Waller Collection, Peter Fiske’s Photo Album on Coulter “Colt” Thomas, The Conversio Virium Papers; Peter Rapp’s Collection on Pittsburgh MC and Tennessee Raptors; cataloged other donations.
Created and implemented programming for community projects like International Mr. Leather, the Lock-In, and the 25th Anniversary Celebration.
public history talks
FREE: Minnesota’s Fight for Sexual Liberation, Rainbow Health Education Series, 2021
Hidden in Plains Sight: LGBTQ+ Activism Before Stonewall, Lathrop GPM ERG Speaker Series, 2021
Queer Public History lecture, History of Sex course at DePaul University, 2020
Queer Public History and Filming FREE, Hamline University, 2019
History of Stonewall and Gay Liberation, OutFront Youth Summit, 2019
conference presentations
“In Living Memory: A Memorial Outline for David Madson & AIDS in Minnesota,” Strategies for Documenting and Memorializing Queer Lives. Queer History Conference June 12-15, 2022.
“Heritage of the Harness: Tracking Masculinity, Sexual Expression,Pand Commodification Through Fetish Adornment.” Interdisciplinary Conference of the American Men’s Studies Association (AMSA), Loren Frankel Scholar. March 22-25, 2018.
“‘Not “Just for Fun:’ Examining American Manhood through Early 20th Century Sheet Music.” Honors Student Conference, DePaul University, May 13, 2016.
“‘Getting PrEPared:’ The Basics of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis.” The Midwest Bisexual Lesbian Gay Transgender Ally College Conference, February 21, 2016. February 15, 2015.
“‘Getting PrEPared:’ The Basics of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis.” CatalystCon – Midwest, April 2, 2016.
volunteer experience
Conference Chair, Historian, Midwest Institute for Sexuality and Gender Diversity (SGD Institute), 2014-2021
Served two years as the Illinois Oversight Committee representative for the Midwest Bisexual Lesbian Gay Transgender Asexual College Conference(MBLGTACC); Served as the conference chair for the 2017 conference (planning period from 2015-2017) securing sponsors, programming, implementing marketing strategies, and organizing/leading a planning team; currently elected as the Historian for the SGD Institute and MBLGTACC.
https://issuu.com/sgdinstitute/docs/mblgtacc_2017_program_guide
Stonewall Sports Board member– Minneapolis, MN, 2018-2020
Research Assistant, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities,
2017-2018
Oral History Intern, Museum of Minneapolis,
January-May 2018
Behavioral Research Assistant, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, 2015-2017
Executive Assistant, LGBT Chamber of Commerce of Illinois (formerly The Chicago Area Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce), 2013-2015
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