From 2000 - 2002 she was the Curator of Contemporary Art at The Baltimore Museum of Art, where she organized Work Ethic, which traced the problem of artistic labor in post-1960s art. (bard.edu)
Building from the transformation of artistic labor through industrial production initiated by minimalism and conceptual art, the panel, including artists Dora Budor and Josh Kline, and artist and theorist Keith Tilford, will consider histories of fabrication up to the present day. (juddfoundation.org)
The project's overall goal is to comment on the economic status of artists and how our society values artistic labor, and at the same time bring Merkel Hess recognition as an artist. (18thstreet.org)