Projects

Technical Editing

Helena National Forest, USDA Forest Service

• Edited Charter Oak Mine and Mill Historic Preservation Plan, by Carl Davis (2003)

Helena National Forest, USDA Forest Service

• Edited Historic Preservation Plan for the Lewis and Clark Trail on the Helena National Forest, by Sara Scott (2001)

Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Program

• Edited Montana Tobacco Use Prevention Program Legislative Report (2001)

Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, Montana Breast and Cervical Health Program

• Edited Montana Breast and Cervical Health Program Policy and Procedure Manual (1998)

Montana State Historic Preservation Office

• Edited Montana Ancient Teachings: A Curriculum for Montana Archaeology and Prehistory, by Sara Scott and Russ Ann Sisk (2000)

Book Packaging

Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts

• Packaged Potluck: The Archie Bray Foundation Artists Cookbook (1999)

Avon (MT) Get Together Club

• Packaged Our Neighborhood 2000: A History of the Little Blackfoot (2001)

O'Connor Center for the Rocky Mountain West/Montana Historical Society Press

• Packaged Fifty Years after The Big Sky: New Perspectives on the Fiction and Films of A. B. Guthrie, Jr.,edited by William W. Bevis and William E. Farr (2001)

SkyHouse Publishers/E.L.K., Inc.

• Packaged Elk Tactics by Don Laubach & Mark Henckel (1998)

TwoDot Books

• Packaged Ol' S.O.B. Sez: Cowboy Limericks by S. Omar Barker, illustrations by Peter Grosshauser (1998)

Yellowstone Art Museum

• Packaged The Most Difficult Journey: The Poindexter Collections of American Modernist Painting by Rick Newby and Andrea Pappas (2002)

Editorial Project Management

Greenwood Press

• Edited and managed The Rocky Mountain Region, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Regional Cultures (2004)

Rockport Publishers

• Managed Mosaics Inside and Out, by Doreen Mastandrea (2001)

Content/Line Editing

Falcon Publishing

• Edited Walking Boston, by Greg and Katherine Letterman (2001)
• Edited Hiking Wyoming's Cloud Peak Wilderness, by Erik Molvar (1999)

Greater Montana Foundation

• Edited “I Was Just Talkin’”: Adventures in Montana Broadcasting, by William L. Knowles (2005)

Riverbend Publishing

• Edited Crown of the Continent: The Last Great Wilderness of the Rocky Mountains, by Ralph Waldt (2004)

TwoDot Books

• Edited A Most Desperate Situation: Frontier Adventures of a Young Scout, 1858-1864 by Walter Cooper (2000)
• Edited, with Megan Hiller, Elaine Peterson, and Alexandra Swaney, An Ornery Bunch: Tales and Anecdotes Collected by the WPA Montana Writers' Project, 1935-1942 (1999)

Copyediting

Falcon Publishing

• Edited Reading Weather, by Jim Woodmencey (1998)
• Edited Mark of the Grizzly, by Scott McMillion (1998)

Greycliff Publishing Company

• Edited River Safety: A Floater's Guide, by Stan Bradshaw (2000)

Montana Historical Society Press

• Edited diary introductions and notes and compiled glossary, Journeys to the Land of Gold: Emigrant Diaries from the Bozeman Trail, 1863-1866, edited by Susan Badger Doyle (2000)
• Edited Nez Perce Summer, 1877: The U.S. Army and the Nee-Me-Poo Crisis, by Jerome A. Greene (2000)
• Edited Smoke Wars: Anaconda Copper, Montana Air Pollution, and the Courts, 1890-1920, by Donald MacMillan (2000)

TwoDot Books

• Edited Montana Dateline, by Ellis Roberts Parry (2001)
• Edited Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in Montana History by Dave Walter, et al (2000)

Copywriting

Discovering Lewis & Clark web site (www.lewis-clark.org)

• Wrote text for site

Hearing Focus web site (www.hearingfocus.com)

• Wrote and/or edited text for site

Helena National Forest, USDA Forest Service

• Researched and wrote interpretive text for brochure, "Indians & Explorers, Dams & Tour Boats: Human Presence in the Gates of the Mountains"
• Researched and wrote interpretive text for eight signs celebrating the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark expedition

The Nature Conservancy and Artemis Wildlife Foundation (www.conservationbeef.org)

• Wrote and/or edited text for direct mail brochure, web site, and point-of-purchase display

Travel Writing

Falcon Publishing

• Wrote Great Escapes: Montana State Parks (1988)
• Wrote Walking San Francisco (1999)

Art Writing and Editing

Arizona State University Art Museum, Ceramics Research Center, Tempe

• Wrote essay, “Gritty and Un-Housebroken: Origins, Reception, and Dispersion of Funk Ceramics” in Humor, Irony, and Wit: Ceramic Funk from the Sixties and Beyond (2004)

Fine Arts Gallery, Laramie County (WY) Community College

• Wrote essay, “Organic Memory, Cockleburs, & Barbed Wire: The Sculpture of Richard Swanson,” in Richard Swanson: Material Witness, Sculpture 1994-1998 (1999)

Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT

• Wrote essay, “Rudy Autio: Coming Home to the Figure,” in Rudy Autio: The Infinite Figure (2006)
• Wrote essay, “Dead Nature,” in Nature Morte: Peter Rutledge Koch (2004)
• Wrote essay, “Painting Air at Large Scale,” in Intimate Terrain: The Paintings of Michael Haykin (2003)
• Co-wrote, with Chere Jiusto, the essay, “‘A Beautiful Spirit’: The Origins of the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts,” in A Ceramic Continuum: Fifty Years of the Archie Bray Influence (University of Washington Press, 2001)
• Wrote essay, “Open Country,” in Open Country: The Landscapes of Dale Livezey (2001)
• Edited Old Paint New: The Image of the Horse in Contemporary Art by Gussie Fauntleroy and Francine Marcel (1999)
• Wrote essay, “Like a Prayer,” in The Prints and Paintings of Anne Appleby (1998)
• Edited Telling Compelling Tales: Narration in Contemporary Glass, by Dick Weiss (1998)
• Co-edited, with Peter Held, Elizabeth Lochrie: Portraits of a People by Mary Murphy (1997)

Jundt Art Museum, Gonzaga University

• Wrote essay, “Earthly Visions, Celestial Alignments: Robert Harrison's Accomplishment,” in Robert Harrison A Mid-career Retrospective (2001)

John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI

• Wrote essay, “Jerry Bennett and Bean Finneran: Pushing the Limits,” in Provocative Clay (forthcoming 2007)

Montana Art Gallery Directors Association (MAGDA)

• Researched, wrote, and presented talk, “Artists Who Teach: Frances Senska, Gennie DeWeese, and Jim Poor,” at MAGDA annual meeting, Chico Hot Springs, MT (1999)

National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA)

• Wrote essay, “Geometrical Codes/Material Bodies: Twenty-first Century Clay and the Hyperreal,” in The New Utilitarian: Examining Our Place on the Motherboard of Ceramics, (2006)

Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN

• Wrote essay, “Lawson Oyekan: Healing Powers,” in New Works: Lawson Oyekan: Solstice Lip Series, Minneapolis (2006)
• Wrote essay, “The Aesthetics of Disappearance: Ceramic Perforation in a Postmodern Age,” in Perforation: Tony Marsh, Jeffrey Mongrain, Mary Roehm, Marit Tingleff, & Xavier Toubes (2005)

University Galleries, University of Montana-Missoula

• Wrote foreword, “A Few Hard Words,” to Hard Words: Digital/Typographic Prints by Peter Koch and Griff Williams (2000)

University of South Australia Art Museum, Underdale, Australia

• Wrote essay, “Rooms Within Rooms: The Installations of Robert Harrison, 1981-1992,” in Robert Harrison: Architecture without Walls (1992)

Yellowstone Art Museum

• Wrote essay, “Missionaries for Modernism: George and Elinor Poindexter and Montana’s Poindexter Collections of Postwar American Painting,” in The Most Difficult Journey: The Poindexter Collections of American Modernist Painting (2002)