Em Dashing
Erin Barnett is a writer, editor, curator, and art historian with more than twenty years of experience in museums and publishing houses.
Get Started NowErin Barnett is a writer, editor, curator, and art historian with more than twenty years of experience in museums and publishing houses.
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Em Dashing, Writer, Editor, and Project Manager
Em Dashing is an art-focused writing and editorial service I created in the New York City area. In addition to editing, copyediting, and proofreading catalogues and exhibition didactics for clients including Aperture Foundation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of the City of New York, and the Rubin Museum of Art, I also research and write exhibition texts and wall labels.
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International Center of Photography, Director of Exhibitions and Collections
As the Director of Exhibitions and Collections, I developed the International Center of Photography’s exhibition program, including project initiation and management of curatorial research, design, and production as well as related publications. Exhibitions include The Lower East Side: Selections from the ICP Collection; James Coupe: Warriors; Your Mirror: Portraits from the ICP Collection (with Claartje van Dijk); RFK Funeral Train: The People’s View; Edmund Clark: The Day the Music Died; President in Petticoats: Civil War Propaganda in Photographs; The Loving Story: Photographs by Grey Villet; Hiroshima: Ground Zero 1945; Take Me to the Water: Photographs of River Baptisms; Munkacsi’s Lost Archive; and Amelia Earhart: Image and Icon (with Kristen Lubben). As the Assistant Curator of Collections, I conducted research on the collection and wrote and edited posts for the collections blog. With the assistant registrar, I created a style guide for cataloging works.
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Abrams, Managing Editor
As a Managing Editor, I managed a list of approximately eight-five titles per year and worked with editorial, design, and production to create and maintain schedules that ensured timely delivery. I guided titles through the preproduction process, including collating and checking corrections on layouts, color proofs, and blue lines. I also hired and managed freelance copyeditors and proofreaders.