Kate Fox (MA 2011), a freelance contractor for Smithsonian Gardens in Washington DC, is the curator of Patios, Pools, & the Invention of the American Backyard, a travelling exhibition scheduled for spring 2015. She has also launched a website called Community of Gardens for crowdsourcing personal histories of gardening in America—her first foray into the digital humanities.

Berit Hoff (MA 2011) is the director of exhibitions at the Center for Architecture in New York City.

Brooke Penaloza (MA 2011) is in the doctoral program in the history department at the University of Vienna. A 2014-2017 fellow at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, she is working on her dissertation entitled “Instituting Anthropology: The Circulation of Scientists and Ethnographic Materials Between North America, Germany and Austria, 1883-1933.” In 2013, she participated in the Smithsonian’s Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology and received a Collection Study Grant from the American Museum of Natural History. She is organizing a panel entitled “Communicating Things, Things Communicating: New Perspectives in Material Culture and Indigenous Studies” for the 35th American Indian Workshop, at the University of Leiden in May. She and her husband are also freelance editors and translators.

Kimberly Sorensen (MA 2011) is a cataloguer at Rago Auctions in Lambertville, NJ, where she sees and handles many fascinating objects, in particular the creations of New Hope modernists like George Nakashima and Paul Evans, whose studios were only a few miles away and whose pieces still reside in many local homes. This winter she published an article in NY Food Story, the journal of the Culinary Historians of New York, on carving a cake board and experimenting with historical recipes.

Luke Baker (MA 2010) has undertaken a number of projects at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)— from opening the permanent exhibition, Designing Modern Women 1890–1990, to pursuing acquisitions and conducting research, participating in the courier training program, and escorting MoMA collections on trips to other institutions. Recently he has been working with Paola Antonelli on contemporary design exhibitions and projects and is participating in MoMA’s Media Working Group to develop best practices for collecting, archiving, exhibiting, and conserving digital works such as fonts, video games, and apps. He has received a Robert V. Storr Research and Travel Grant, which will allow him to study athletic footwear designs by Tinker Hatfield (of Nike, Inc.) and to travel to the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto, where he will discuss aspects of footwear collection and conservation with their curators and conservators. In addition, he is working on a permanent exhibition on the theme of music and design, scheduled for fall 2014. In July, he will represent MoMA as a judge at the annual Design Tokyo fair in Japan.

Luke continues to write for a number of publications. Over the past two years, he has contributed a column about the design auction market to Modern magazine, reviewed an exhibition for Studio Potter,authored reviews, dispatches and features for Metalsmith magazine, and written about popular visual and material culture for Outpost Journal and Art Papers, including a recent review of an exhibition of GIF art.

Grace Chuang (MA 2010) is working on her doctorate at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, where she is writing a dissertation tentatively titled “Bernard II Vanrisamburgh, Master Cabinetmaker in Eighteenth-Century Paris,” under the supervision of Thomas Crow. She curated the exhibition Italian Renaissance and Baroque Bronze Sculpture from the Robert Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she was a 2012-13 curatorial studies resident. Grace is currently a fellow at the Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte, Paris. For the academic years of 2014-2016, she will be the Samuel H. Kress Fellow at the Institut national d’histoire de l’art, Paris.

Anna Kaplan (MA 2010) recently launched a commercial art gallery, BT&C Gallery, in Buffalo, which has been featured in local press, including the Buffalo News. With its inaugural exhibition recently ended in a temporary space, she will be exhibiting artist Julian Montague’s work in a permanent location in June. Anna is expecting a child in April. The new arrival will join her family, which includes two lovely stepchildren.

Alexis Romano (MA 2010) is working on her PhD in dress history at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London under the supervision of Rebecca Arnold. Alexis also co-organizes the Fashion Research Network, which promotes and shares the work of early career and PhD researchers in fashion and dress.

Courtney Stewart (MA 2010) is in the department of Islamic Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she has been mainly focusing on the exhibition Art of India’s Deccan Sultans, ca. 1500-1750, scheduled for the spring of 2015. She gave a paper last fall at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad, India. For the past two years, she has been teaching a class on Islamic art history at the University of Toronto.

Genny Cortinovis (MA 2009) is a researcher in the decorative arts and design department of the Saint Louis Art Museum, where she is working on an exhibition on modernism in St. Louis scheduled for fall 2015. Her artisanal clothing line, Dipped & Dyed, was featured last year at St. Louis Fashion Week. In July, Genny will attend Attingham Summer School in England. Last September, she was married in Provence, France. BGC alumni Ajiri Aki(MA 2009) and Melanie Clifton-Harvey (MA 2009) were in attendance.

Doug Clouse (MA 2007) heads the graphic design company The Graphics Office and is an adjunct faculty member at the Fashion Institute of Technology, where he teaches graphic design and history. He is on the board of the Type Directors Club and is president of the New York chapter of the American Printing History Association.

Amy Osborn (MA 2007), who lives in Brooklyn, is a project manager and application developer for the Environmental Protection Agency.

Emily Zilber (MA 2007) is the Ronald L. and Anita C. Wornick Curator of Contemporary Decorative Arts at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She works on collections building and display and developing special exhibitions. Emily was married last October.

Rita Jules (MA 2006) is a senior book designer at Miko McGinty Inc. in Brooklyn, which designed the BGC’s History of Design: Decorative Arts and Material Culture, 1400–2000. Other recent titles include The Houses of Louis Kahn for Yale University Press; Lost Kingdoms: Hindu-Buddhist Sculpture of Early Southeast Asia, 5th to 8th Century for the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Take It or Leave It: Institution, Image, Ideology for the Hammer Museum; and Treasures from Korea: Arts and Culture of the Joseon Dynasty, 1392–1910 for the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Rita enjoys combining craftsmanship with an intellectual engagement in diverse works, often authored by experts in their fields. “I am happy to contribute in my own way to the scholarly community and to promote the pleasure and knowledge gained from the pairing of text and image,” she says.

Jackie Killian (MA 2006) will complete a second master’s degree in May at the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture at the University of Delaware. She recently delivered a lecture for the Winterthur Furniture Forum, entitled “Finding Philadelphia Furniture in the Gulf South,” based on a field study fellowship completed last summer with the Classical Institute of the South. At Furniture Forum, she co-hosted a gallery workshop on early furniture made in Philadelphia. In the past year Jackie has been awarded two scholarships from the Decorative Arts Trust for thesis research travel and to attend the Trust’s upcoming symposium in Bermuda in March.

Emily Klug (MA 2006) is a senior registrar at the Pace Gallery in New York City, where her focus is on collections management, exhibitions, contracts, and courier work. In October 2013, she married Jonathan Leach (Bard College 2002), who is a producer at CBS news.

Freyja Hartzell (MA 2005) received her PhD from Yale in in 2012. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow in material and visual culture at Parsons The New School for Design, where she will be an assistant professor in fall 2014. Freyja has continued work on her book about the German designer Richard Riemerschmid (1868-1957) and spoke on him at the 2014 CAA Conference in Chicago. For the German Studies Association Conference to be held in Kansas City, MO, in September, she is organizing a series of panels on “German Wood: Material and Metaphor from Forest to Fireside and Beyond,” which explore the material and symbolic implications of “wood” in a diachronic and interdisciplinary context. Between 2010 and 2013, she and her husband added two children to their family—Bjorn and Brynja—who, she says, make the scholarly life significantly more challenging but infinitely more rewarding.

Jennifer Scanlan (MA 2004) is curating Illuminate: Design in Light, which opened April 2 at Urban Glass in Brooklyn.