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Available for purchase at the MIT Press Bookstore

Also at The Toadstool Bookshop (signed copies available)

Named an AAP 2025 Prose Award finalist in the category for History of Science, Medicine, and Technology

Excerpt published in The Boston Globe

Review in Scientific American

Review in Sky & Telescope

Review in BBC Sky at Night

Upcoming Lectures and Exhibitions

Mount Wilson Observatory

Saturday, September 19, 5:30–11:30 pm

Following my lecture The Brightness of Stars: Henrietta Leavitt and the Transformative Nature of Attention in Art and Science we will have a chance to observe the night sky through the historic 60-inch and 100-inch telescopes!

Tickets available for purchase here

OBJECTS: USA

The Museum of Craft and Design

September 5, 2026 – January 17, 2027

The Data at Hand: Data Physicalizations of Earth and Space

Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, California
September 12 – December 6, 2026
Curated by Kayleigh Perkov

Magic

Drive-by Projects, Watertown, Massachusetts
January 10 – March 14, 2026

The Brightness of Stars

Saint Anselm College, Manchester, New Hampshire
February 4 – March 7, 2026

About Place: Quilts from Vermont Museums

Fleming Museum of Art, University of Vermont
September 10 – December 6, 2024

Elements and Objects

Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, Oregon
March 7 – April 27, 2024

Glass, Metal, Thread: Building our Observable World

University Galleries of Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois
January 17 – April 2, 2023

Parallax: Framing the Cosmos

The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College
October 1, 2022 – June 19, 2023

Henrietta Leavitt: A Life Spent Looking

Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College
August 1-December 23, 2023

2001 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship

Research topic: “Structuring the Light: The Story of Dark Matter”
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Radical Tradition: American Quilts and Social Change

Toledo Museum of Art
November 21, 2020 – February 14, 2021

Measure

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
November 9, 2018 – January 19, 2019
Opening lecture at Harvard Radcliffe Institute