Members Directory


Membership in the AAE is open to freelance editors specializing in the visual arts and other individuals involved in art-related publications.

For membership information, contact Emily Bowles at assoc.art.editors@gmail.com.

Job Opportunities for Art Editors

AUGUST 2025: Updated membership information coming soon!

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  Carolyn Vaughan  

150 East 93rd Street, Apt. 10B
New York, NY 10128
E-mail: tfox2@nyc.rr.com; carolynvaughanbooks@gmail.com

Former Editor, Special Publications, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Freelance: Copyediting, substantive editing, and project management and coordination; general art history (including American, European, and contemporary), fashion history, gardens, painting, photography, and prints/drawings; brochures, catalogues (exhibition and general museum), catalogues raisonnés, children’s publications, exhibition materials, and trade books.

  Audrey Walen  

Director of Publications, Interpretation, and Editorial Services
Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn, NY 11238
Phone: (646) 479-8874 (cell)
E-mail: audrey.walen@brooklynmuseum.org; audreywalen@gmail.com

Freelance: Copyediting, substantive editing, proofreading, and project management; general art history and criticism/theory; annual reports, artists’ books, brochures, exhibition and collection catalogues, exhibition materials, grant proposals, journals, online publications, press releases, scholarly books, textbooks, and Websites.

  Rachel Walther  

1557 Sherman Street
Alameda, CA 94501
Phone: (773) 343-2522 (cell)
E-mail: walther.rachelm@gmail.com

Freelance: Copyediting, proofreading, project management, reproduction permissions, and research/fact-checking; general art history (esp. contemporary Latin American, European, and North American), cultural studies, film history (esp. classic Hollywood, contemporary independent, and European film), painting, performance art, photography, popular culture, prints/drawings, and sculpture/installation; catalogues raisonnés, exhibition catalogues, exhibition materials (object and wall labels; text panels), and Websites. Strong knowledge of the Chicago Manual of Style. Skilled at working with authors who write in English as a second language (esp. those whose first languages are Spanish or Portuguese). Skilled at Adobe Photoshop and InDesign.

  Jennifer Yankopolus  

147 Cleveland Street SE
Atlanta, GA 30316
Phone: (678) 612-7463
E-mail: jennifer@wordcollaborative.com
Website: www.wordcollaborative.com

Former co-editor, Almanac of Architecture and Design

Freelance: Developmental, substantive, and line editing, copyediting, and project management; architecture, landscape architecture, design history, graphic design, industrial design, historic preservation, and gardening; exhibition materials, journals/periodicals, and trade books.


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