Audrey Walen 
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About

Audrey is an award-winning publisher and editorial manager with a demonstrated history of producing illustrated books in the arts and culture industries. She is skilled in conceptual development, strategic planning, project development, editing, design leadership, and nurturing projects from conception to market. Her services include managing the full production and distribution of exhibition catalogues and art books; collaborating with authors, designers, printers, and distributors to ensure the final project aligns with the goals at launch; convening teams around project-specific needs; conceptual leadership; editing and producing publications of all scales; collaborating closely with institutions to produce didactic plans that align with a strategic mission, and editing wall texts, brochures, and educational materials. She has authored a number of institution- and project-specific editorial style guides, shepherding projects through multiple departments. She has also written and edited short-form texts such as press releases, fundraising materials, email campaigns, articles, and other print and digital communications.  

Audrey Walen Bio

Audrey has almost three decades of experience as an editor and editorial project manager specializing in heavily illustrated publications, exhibition-related content, and scholarly volumes. She has worked on books with numerous institutions and individuals around the world, including The Clark Art Institute, DelMonico Books, El Museo del Barrio, Franklin Furnace, Independent Curators International, MAPFRE, National Gallery of Art, Phaidon Press, Rizzoli, and Williams College Museum of Art, among others, and has provided editorial services to numerous individual scholars around the world. Books she has produced have won awards such as the Gold Medal for Fine Art, IPPY; "50 Books | 50 Covers" Competition, AIGA + Design Observer; The Frances Smyth-Ravenel Prize for Excellence in Publication Design, American Alliance of Museums, and many more.