Claire Pask


Editor, reader, art lover. 

Currently: editing exhibition catalogues and collection books for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Previously: editing exhibition didactics for the Peabody Essex Museum; working with researchers in Special Collections at the Harvard Graduate School of Design; editing children’s books; teaching in Spain; composting in Haiti.

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Divine Color: Hindu Prints from Modern Bengal


principal editor and project manager—created project-specific Bangla and Hindi style guides—proofread transliterations—directed design 

Written by Laura Weinstein and Mark Baron
Designed by Anjali Pala
Exhibition catalogue / MFA Publications / 2026

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Brilliance: Jewelry Art and Fashion


principal editor and project manager—developed manuscript structure and table of contents in tandem with lead author—edited eleven spotlight essays from leaders in the jewelry field, including jewelry artists, museum directors, gallerists, and art historians—researched and obtained external photography and image rights—directed design

Eritten by Emily Stoehrer et al.
Designed by pulp, ink.
Collection book / MFA Publications / 2025

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John Wilson: Witnessing Humanity


2026 Porter/Driskell Book Award
principal editor and project manager—worked in tandem with a team of four curators and Wilson’s former gallerist—managed twenty-six contributors, including art historians, curators, and contemporary artists—fact-checked, proofread, and provided developmental, content, line, and copy edits for thirteen essays, an interview, and a chronology—supervised photography of work, images rights, and licensing—directed design

Written by Jennifer Farrell, Leslie King Hammond, Patrick Murphy, and Edward Saywell
Designed by Anjali Pala
Exhibition catalogue / MFA Publications / 2025

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Reframing Photography: Multiple Histories

gold medal winner of the 2024 Foreword Review INDIES Book of the Year Award in Photography; second place winner of the 2025 New England Museum Association Publication Award, Books; silver medal winner of the 16th International Creative Media Award (ICMA) for photo books

principal editor and project manager—directed design

Written by Kristen Gresh, Karen Haas, and Anne E. Havinga
Designed by Margaret Bauer
Collection book / MFA Publications / 2024

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Songs for Modern Japan: Popular Music and Graphic Design, 1900 to 1950

silver medal winner of the 15th International Creative Media Award (ICMA) for Books in Art, Architecture, Design; third place winner of the 2025 New England Museum Association Publication Award, Exhibition Catalogues
principal editor—consulted with curator to develop project-specific style guide for Japanese titles, translations, and transliterations

Written by Kendall H. Brown with Anne Nishimura Morse and Hiromu Nagahara
Designed by Rita Jules, Miko McGinty, Inc.
Exhibition catalogue / MFA Publications / 2023

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Gio Swaby: Fresh Up


collaborated with curator to adapt in-gallery text from exhibition partners to fit institutional style and goals—copyedited and proofread exhibition graphics

curated by Lydia Peabody
adapted from the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg and the Art Institute of Chicago
exhibition / Peabody Essex Museum / 2023

Photos by Kathy Tarantola/PEM.



The Salem Witch Trials: Restoring Justice


edited gallery script, from concept to graphics

Curated by Dan Lipcan and Paula Richter
Exhibition / Peabody Essex Museum / 2023

Wooden planks from Salem’s original jail, built in 1684 and used to detain those accused of witchcraft. Photo by Kathy Tarantola/PEM.



Bethany Collins: America, A Hymnal


edited gallery script, from concept to graphics

curated by Lydia Peabody
exhibition / Peabody Essex Museum / ongoing, opened 2023

Bethany Collins, America: A Hymnal (interior), 2017. Artist book with 100 laser cut leaves, 9" x 6" x 1" / 22.86 x 15.24 x 2.54 cm, Ed of 3, 2 AP. Courtesy of the Artist and PATRON Gallery, Chicago. / Exhibition views. Photos by Kathy Tarantola / PEM.


As We Rise: Photography in the Black Atlantic


edited gallery script, from concept to graphics

Curated by Stephanie Tung
Adapted from Aperture
Exhibition / Peabody Essex Museum / 2023

Exhibition views. Photos by Kathy Tarantola / PEM.

Spirits: Tsherin Sherpa with Robert Beer


edited gallery script, from concept to graphics

Curated by Lan Morgan
Co-organized with the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Exhibition / Peabody Essex Museum / 2023

Tsherin Sherpa in PEM’s exhibition. Photo by Kathy Tarantola/PEM.



Power and Perspective: Early Photography in China


edited gallery script, from concept to graphics

Curated by Stephanie Tung and Karina Corrigan
Exhibition / Peabody Essex Museum / 2022–23

John Thomson (1837–1921, Scotland), Portrait of a Woman, 1868–72. Albumen print. Peabody Essex Museum, Gift of George J. Harrington, Jr.


Patrick Kelly: Runway of Love


edited exhibition copy and graphics

Curated by theo tyson
Adapted from the Philadelphia Museum of Art in collaboration with the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Exhibition / Peabody Essex Museum / 2022

Patrick Kelly, Fall/Winter 1988–1989 advertising campaign. Photo by Oliviero Toscani. Courtesy of the Estate of Patrick Kelly. Scan by Randy Dodson / Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco



Georgia O’Keeffe: Art, Image, Style


edited exhibition copy and graphics

Curated by Wanda M. Corn and Austen Barron Bailly
Adapted from the Brooklyn Museum
Exhibition / Peabody Essex Museum / 2017–18

Tony Vaccaro, Georgia O’Keeffe with “Pelvis Series, Red with Yellow” and the desert, 1960. Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. Courtesy of Tony Vaccaro studio


It’s Alive! Classic Horror and Sci-fi Art from the Kirk Hammett Collection


edited exhibition copy and graphics

Curated by Daniel Finamore
Exhibition / Peabody Essex Museum / 2017

The Bride of Frankenstein (detail), 1935. Lithograph. Courtesy of the Kirk Hammett Horror and Sci-Fi Memorabilia Collection and Universal Studios Licensing, LLC.



T. C. Cannon: At the Edge of America

winner, AAM 2019 Excellence in Exhibition Label Writing Competition


edited, copyedited, and proofread commissioned poems, interview transcripts, and image captions

Karen Kramer et. al
Exhibition catalogue / Peabody Essex Museum / 2018