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Kate (Kathleen) Johnson offers a
range of services for museums, libraries, colleges, and other organizations
interested in history and art history. She can curate exhibitions in historic
structures, on historic landscapes, in gallery spaces, and online. She can research, write, and manage the production of guidebooks, catalogs, web programs, brochures, apps, and audio tours. She can develop and implement museum tours and programs and conduct guide training. Kate can also advise on, and direct, collections management initiatives. She can assemble and manage a project team or simply serve as an advisor.
See upcoming and recent activities listed below.
A skilled project manager, Kate has shepherded a variety of museum projects from
concept through implementation. These include the creation and implementation of interpretation and furnishing plans for historic sites, the
production of a series of gallery exhibitions with accompanying catalogs, the production of web programs and online exhibitions, teaching museum courses and conducting training for museum guides and
technicians, planning and creating storage facilities for collections, orchestrating
large-scale moves of collections and libraries, and the cataloging of sizable collections of art and artifacts.
Not all of her projects are large in
scale. She can also present a single lecture or participate in a
short consultancy.
Kate is happy to travel for projects and lectures. Please contact her to discuss your needs.
Kate's Upcoming and Recent Activities:
Lecturer for the Attingham Study Program "New York and the Hudson River Valley," June 2012.
Consultant for “A Good Light: The Artist’s Studio in Cos Cob and Beyond” and the Restoration of the Bush-Holley House Roof and Studio, Greenwich Historical Society (opening October 2012)
Conducted 2-day guide training session at Montgomery Place (April 2012)
"The Price of Chocolate" published in the magazine Antiques, January-February 2012 issue.
Loan exhibition for the January 2012 Winter Antiques Show, East Side Settlement House, Park Avenue Armory.
Kate reappointed to U.S. Senate Curatorial Advisory Board for 112th Congress.