Arden Kirkland’s bio

Arden Kirkland is a Costume Storyteller. If you don’t know what that means, then you didn’t read my main About page, so please go read it now! But if you want a more traditional bio, here goes:

Arden Kirkland currently splits her work between Vassar College (Costumer for the Drama Department) and numerous other freelance projects in costume history, design, production, and education. She has taught at Vassar, Bard, Marist, Barnard, and the Powerhouse Theatre summer program at Vassar; she was formerly the Costume Shop Supervisor at Bard College and the Assistant Shop Manager at the Costume Shop for the Juilliard School. Arden received her MFA in Costume Design from Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts. Ever since her undergraduate work at Vassar, she has continued to work as a Co-Curator of the Vassar College Costume Collection, the Drama Department’s research collection of historic clothing. Her ongoing effort to create a database of Vassar’s costume collection has led to an inter-disciplinary and inter-institutional project entitled “Digital Objects in the Classroom,” to research best practice in the creation and use of digital collections as a teaching resource.