katherine.sarah.shark@gmail.com
Fashion Institute of Technology
Masters of Art, Fashion and Textile Studies - Textile Conservation
Thesis - Late Bloomer: Gel Cleaning of a 1971 Courrèges Ensemble
BFA - Maryland Institute College of Art
Class of 2020, magna cum laude.
Fibers and Humanistic Studies dual major
Experimental Fashion concentration, and Art History minor
"Through the Flesh,” Robert Wun, fall/winter 2024-25 haute couture. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2026.150a–c.
Experience - full curriculum vitae is available in pdf.
Graduate Textile Conservation Intern
The Museum of Fine Arts Boston
September 2026 - Present
Polaire Weissman Textile Conservation Fellow
The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
September 2025 - August 2026
Superfine (Spring 2025)
Costume Art (Spring 2026)
Graduate Student Conservation Advisor
The Museum at Fashion Institute of Technology
September 2024 - April 2025
All That Glitters... (Spring 2025)
Federal Work Study Placement
The Museum at Fashion Institute of Technology
September 2024 - May 2025
Fashion and Psychoanalysis (Fall 2025)
Textile Conservation Intern
The Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum
June 2024 - August 2024
Making Home (Winter 2024)
Textile Conservation Intern
The Museum at Fashion Institute of Technology
June 2024 - September 2024
Fashioning Wonder: A Cabinet of Curiosities (Winter 2025)
Research Intern
Underpinnings Museum
January 2024 - September 2024
Federal Work Study Placement
Fashion Institute of Technology Gladys Marcus Library, Special Collections and College Archives
August 2023 - May 2024
Library Specialist
Palo Alto City Library
January 2023 - August 2023 - Library Specialist
May 2022 - January 2023 - Library Clerk
Sewing Instructor
Needles Studio
June 2021 - February 2023