Kirstin Purtich is a textile and fashion conservator and collections and exhibition consultant based in Brooklyn, NY.
She is currently Research Assistant for Textiles at the Brooklyn Museum, following work as a registrar for Collector Systems and as an account manager at Garde Robe by UOVO. From 2020 to 2021 she was a Conservation Fellow at Los Angeles’ FIDM Museum, where she prepared a circa 1866-1868 Worth & Bobergh ensemble for an upcoming exhibition. She has also contributed to exhibitions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Bard Graduate Center Gallery, The Richard H. Driehaus Museum, the Museum at FIT, and The Textile Museum. From 2016 to 2019 she was part of the curatorial team at the American Federation of Arts, where she organized traveling exhibitions of fashion, architecture, and design, including Sporting Fashion: Outdoor Girls 1800 to 1960 and Designing the New: Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Glasgow Style. She has written essays for several exhibition catalogues, including A Tale of Today: Yinka Shonibare CBE (2019) and Artek and the Aaltos: Designing a Modern World (2016).
She holds an MA in Fashion & Textile Studies (with a concentration in conservation) from the Fashion Institute of Technology; an MA in Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture from the Bard Graduate Center; and a BA in History of Art & Architecture from Brown University. When she is not researching, writing, or performing conservation treatments, she can be found painting, drawing, marbling paper, dyeing fabric, or designing and making clothes.
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To inquire about treatments, designs, or other projects, please email kpurtich@gmail.com
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