work highlights
2025: Trade stories
There is no preservation without folks who are skilled in traditional trades. The people who do the physical work of preserving and restoring historic buildings and structures are essential — and this skilled workforce is dwindling. In an effort to shine a light on what a career in the preservation trades looks like, the Preservation League launched a video series to highlight individual tradespeople who represent a small snapshot of the future of this workforce. Funded through a grant from the Historic Preservation Education Foundation with additional support from the Peggy N. & Roger G. Gerry Charitable Trust., Trade Stories features six individuals who have all traveled their own paths to a career in the trades.
2023: Public Art for Preservation
Artist Ed Woodham brought his performance art piece The Keepers to the Penn Station Neighborhood in protest of proposed demolitions that would displace residents and locally owned businesses. Costumed actors pictured here with Lynn Elsworth, Ed Woodham, Samuel Turvey, and Katy Peace. Photo by Paul Takeuchi.
In late 2022, the Preservation League of NYS was awarded a Regrowth & Capacity Grant from the New York State Council on the Arts to fund artist commissions in support of the 2022-2023 Seven to Save list. I managed that grant, commissioning local artists to help draw attention to those endangered historic sites in a variety of ways, from public performance art to high-quality photography. See more here.
2020-Present: Preservation League of NYS virtual programs
Future of Preservation
Through this webinar series for the Preservation League of NYS, I’ve assembled expert panels to discuss topics ranging from social justice, public art, sustainability, and LGBTQ+ history.
preservation book club
Since 2020, I have organized a series of author talks and led virtual book club discussions.
2019-Present: Preservation League of NYS Annual Reports
Annual Report writing and design.
2016: The Forest Park Forever Artist in Residence Program
From an interview with St. Louis Public Radio, “The public program that culminates each of their individual residencies could be wildly different and that’s really exciting for us. We have photographers and painters that use the park a lot but this is also open to dancers or poets, sculptors --- a range of artistic disciplines, anyone that would be able to integrate Forest Park into their discipline in an interesting and original way.”
2014-2015: Community Supported Art - St. Louis
“I think people really responded to the idea of having that easy entry point for supporting local artists and experiencing art,” Peace said.
