1. What's at the top of your to-do list?
An illustrated book on JHU's Evergreen Museum & Library, which I am co-authoring—one that celebrates the institution's rich, multidimensional collections and which will be published in 2015.
Image caption: James Archer Abbott
Image credit: Will Kirk / Johns Hopkins University
2. What keeps you up at night?
Sometimes, the future of museums—and their place in a fast-paced world of seemingly limited attention spans. Art is so important, but our time to interact with same is becoming less and less. To pause … to see … to engage … to appreciate ... where do these acts fit in our current everyday lives, let alone in the future? Other times, it is a museum experience—and specifically, the pleasure of same—that allows me to sleep.
3. What's in store 10 years from now?
A further expansion of Evergreen's engagement of both students and faculty, which will include more guest-curating opportunities, more exhibitions of student- and faculty-created works, and the hosting of more museum-based course sessions.
4. Tell me something I don't know about Johns Hopkins.
On working late, one can occasionally hear voices—laughter, low conversation—in the otherwise very empty rooms of Evergreen. Or so I am told.
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