is curator of the Diane and Bruce Halle Collection, a private collection of 20th- and 21st-century art from Latin America based in Scottsdale, Arizona. Adams has taught 20th-century Latin American art history at Arizona State University and was the curator of Latin American Art at the Phoenix Art Museum. Recent publications include the exhibition catalogue Constructing a Poetic Universe: The Diane and Bruce Halle collection of Latin American Art (Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2007) and “School of the North: the New York Graphic Workshop in New York, 1964-1970,” in The New York Graphic Workshop: 1964 – 1970 (Austin: Blanton Museum of Art, 2009). She is currently on the editorial board for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s Documents of 20th-century Latin American and Latino Art: A Digital Archive and Publications Project.

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