I’m a freelance art critic, writer, consultant, and professional librarian with an ALA-accredited MSIS. I specialize in taxonomy development, digital archiving and preservation, visual media collections, content strategy, and user experience.
My work bridges creative practice and information science—connecting cultural content with the digital systems that enable access, understanding, and long-term stewardship. I offer services in art writing, metadata and taxonomy design, digital curation, and knowledge organization for cultural and creative projects.
My research interests span early modern to contemporary art, literature, theater, and film—with a particular emphasis on Asian art. My master’s thesis, Ghosts of Pre-Modernity: Butoh and the Avant-Garde,, explores postwar Japanese performance and is available as an e-book.
Raised in the Pacific Northwest by working-class artists, I’ve always moved between the artistic and the analytical. I find joy in museums, coffee shops, clothing swaps, niche subcultures, and of course, the library. I’ve proudly been part of the goth subculture since my teens.
If you’re looking for a thoughtful art critic, content strategist, or information professional for your creative or cultural project, please reach out!
Hi Shannon,
Visual Culture Caffee is a fountain of artistic energy in music, painting, film and all the arts so far as I can tell. It is an amazing accomplishment. Wish we were closer than the roughly 24 hr drive south of you to Central Mexico where in San Miguel de Allende, Guanjuato, we have more poetry, theatre, arts, artisans per sq ft than Greenwich Village East & West. Its also where Betsy and I live. I’d love to talk with you and Sion (hope I got the spelling right) on all sorts of subjects including how Austin has changed since I was there 1961-67 studying philosophy. I’m going to start a regular dialog with Bobby who I miss A LOT. I so appreciated your note about your visit to him. We want to do that when we can gather the needed cash. Meanwhile give me your email and we can start a dialogue. Big hugs from Betsy and me, Bob Stone