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Education & Experience
Heather A. Vaughan obtained her Master of Arts in
Visual Culture; Costume Studies from New York University
in 2004. She is currently an independent scholar focused on American and
European clothing, shoes, and accessories of the 20th century. She has worked
as a guest curator, author, lecturer, researcher and historian. Over the last
five years, she has worked closely with such institutions as:
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Fine Arts Museums of San
Francisco, de Young Museum (San
Francisco)
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Costume
Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
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Museum
at the Fashion Institute of Technology (New York)
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Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences (Los Angeles)
·
Fashion
Institute of Design & Merchandising (Los Angeles)
·
Los Angeles County Museum
of Art (Los Angeles)
·
Phoenix Art Museum (Phoenix)
Vaughan has been a member of the
Costume Society of America for five years and currently serves as an officer
on the Western Region Board of Directors. She regularly presents her research
at academic conferences and has had her work published in journals, books,
and text for costume exhibitions.
Through a variety of experiences, Vaughan has gained valuable knowledge of
standard museum procedures for care of collections, object research,
cataloging and documentation, exhibition design, exhibition installation, as
well as public and academic programming.
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