PUBLISHED WRITING
2025 "Safe Spaces and Mighty Meets: Representation and Community for Women, Trans, and Nonbinary Sign Painters." BLAG 07, July
2025 "Crème de Menthe." Five Minutes Lit, April 28
2020 "Lasagna, Death, and the Patriarchy: Reflections of a Longtime Vegan." Punks Around Zine #8
2018 "Society of Sign Painters' Grand Exhibition." Spitalfield's Life, August 6
2018 "Weapons of Craft and Satire." Eye Magazine, July 26
2018 "The 1762 Grand Exhibition of the Society of Sign Painters: A Burlesque of the Times." Better Letters, June 16
2017 "Wallcats Take Chicago." Eye Magazine, August 9
2017 "The Candid Appeal of the Advertising Show Card." JSTOR Daily, March 8
2016 "Faux Ghost Signs: Nostalgia, Authenticity, and the Role of the Sign Painter." Advertising and Public Memory: Social, Cultural and Historical Perspectives on Ghost Signs. Ed. Schutt, Stefan, Leanne White, and Sam Roberts. London: Routledge.
2016 "Wicked Cool Bowling: How a 'Southie' Institution Gained a Handsome Mural." Signs of the Times Magazine. May
2014 "The Pre-Vinylite Society." Society for Commercial Archaeology News. Vol. 22 No. 3, Fall
2013 "Artist Canvas: Josh Luke." Thrasher Magazine, June
SPEAKING
2025 The Pre-Vinylettes Podcast
2024 There's Best Dressed Signs Jamaica Plain Mural Tour, Jameson & Thompson Picture Framers, Jamaica Plain, MA. June 22
2020 The Pre-Vinylite Society, Tower Auditorium, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA. Feb. 27
2019 Panel Discussion, Almost Lost Arts, Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. Oct. 16
2018 Curator Talk, the Grand Exhibition of the Pre-Vinylite Society, Oxo Tower Bargehouse, London, UK, Aug. 16-18 at 1pm
2017 Panel Discussion, the Pre-Vinylette Society: An International Showcase of Women Sign Painters, Chicago Art Department, Chicago, IL.
2017 "18th Century British Signs." Designers Meet Sign Painters: Oslo Letterheads, Oslo, Norway. June
2016 "Alumni Speakers Event: Sign Painters Meredith Kasabian and Josh Luke." New Hampshire Institute of Art, Manchester, NH. April
2015 "The Language of the City: 18th Century Signs and the Vision for a Pre-Vinylite Future." The Society of Printers, Boston, MA. December
2015 "TypeCast: Twelve Quick Talks on Type." Boston Society of Architects, Boston, MA. April
2015 "Currier After Hours: Signs of the Times." Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH. April
2014 “Signs of the Times with Best Dressed Signs.” ArtWeek Boston, Restoration Resources, Boston, MA. May
2013 “How the Gold Sticks to the Glass.” New Art Center, Newton, MA. October
2013 “A History of Signs and how we and Barry McGee make Space into Place.” Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA. June