Over the past twenty years, Silva has worked as history curator at the Museum of Art and History in Santa Cruz, California, and as a freelance curator and exhibit consultant specializing in regional history.
In 2001, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History featured their work in a show titled "Art Undercover," and in 2010 in a show titled "It’s in the Pulp: The Art of Papermaking in Santa Cruz".
British Museum | Museum of Modern Art | Art Deco | Metropolitan Museum of Art | history | American Museum of Natural History | Art Institute of Chicago | Victoria and Albert Museum | Natural History Museum | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | National Gallery of Art | Honolulu Museum of Art | History | museum | Whitney Museum of American Art | History (U.S. TV channel) | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | Los Angeles County Museum of Art | Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum | National Air and Space Museum | Brooklyn Museum | National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum | Art Nouveau | Royal College of Art | Walker Art Center | Hermitage Museum | natural history | National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame | art | Glasgow School of Art |