Kate Herron Gendreau

Museum Pro/Costume Mounter/Maker | My Jam: Hand Stitching, Dress + Textile History, Progressive Museums, Cats, Gardening | Museum Studies, Harvard MLA | She/Her

[Kate Herron Gendreau @KHGarts]

Guess which chapter we're on in the #HistoryofFashion course I'm teaching...?! First time lecturer, Old timer puns. I'll be here all semester folks.

[Kate Herron Gendreau @KHGarts]

Please consider lending your support for our neighborhood by signing this petition. The damage this would do is so extreme.

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[Heather Grace @GraceOnTheRun]

Museum friends! Register now for Monday's #CulturalLeadership Hearing & Healing session with Dr. Keima Sheriff on "Regret."
The pandemic has affected so much over the past 2 years: careers altered, ended, or unable to even begin (how many applications have gone unanswered?)

[Kate Herron Gendreau @KHGarts]

Seconded! We're tall and your inferiority complex about it was boring many yesterdays ago.

[BuzzFeed @BuzzFeed]

"This is normal too," Zendaya added. "My mom is taller than my dad. My mom's taller than everyone."

"It's not a weird thing for women to be tall," Jacob added.

[Kate Herron Gendreau @KHGarts]

I will never not be 🥺😂 😵 when Bub makes one of his iconic faces. These silly boys of mine are the best.

[Kate Herron Gendreau @KHGarts]

Q: Can you use the word in a sentence pls?
A: ‘Arts and culture professionals commiserate over the salary offers some orgs think are commensurate with their expertise.’

(Blurred out of excessive caution)
#museumjobs #nonprofits #jobsearch

[Cora Harrington @CoraCHarrington]

200 hours at $15/hr would be a $3,000 pair of stockings.

When fashion historians talk about clothes being cheaper than they have in all of human history and clothing labor being undervalued and rich people including clothing as part of wages paid to staff...this is the context.

[Kate Herron Gendreau @KHGarts]

Enamored with the choice to place The Safety Patrol so imposingly at the head of the @BisaButler solo show @artinstitutechi. He seems poised to safeguard the exhibition, which exposes as much vulnerability as strength in its subjects, as a whole.

[Kate Herron Gendreau @KHGarts]

Decided on my PhD title—The Dignity of Cloth: Clothing, Identity, and Class Distinction in the Gilded Age. Possibilities to look at immigration, freedmen, new middle class, fast fashion in its infancy? What shapes the now. Just need funding, advisor, university, and hope of job…

[Kate Herron Gendreau @KHGarts]

We’re able professionals despite (or indeed all the more so because of) any abilities that look different from yours.

It’s impossible to find part-time museum work offering living rate/isn’t entry level. Museums need this diversity, but don’t want it.

[Ruan Murphy @ruan_murphy]

Hot tip:

If you say you encourage applications from Disabled people but won’t offer flexible/ part-time/ home working options then your job isn’t accessible.

Thanks. Bye

[Rachel Ropeik @TheArtRopeik]

The museum status quo—the "normal" some keep saying we should get back to—is actively harmful.
As @artstuffmatters put it:
"Normal is broken. Normal is oppressive. Normal hurts."

Here's to the museum folks pushing for change.
You're my people.
I appreciate you!
❤️🙏🏻❤️
#AAM2021

[Sartorial Society Series @SartorialSeries]

We can’t wait for @historywardrobe’s paper, part of a session with the theme of trauma and the legacies of loss. Other speakers at that event are @ProfMOConnell & @KimberlyLamm8 🧵#SartorialSociety

[Kate Herron Gendreau @KHGarts]

Highly relatable as 1st gen in higher Ed/museums. The financial fear is real every day. The not fitting in in either place very real. You can excel and not succeed.

[Kate Herron Gendreau @KHGarts]

Late to arrive, but totally here for this party!

[Dr Ella Hawkins @EllaMcHawk]

I am reliably informed that today is #NationalBiscuitDay.

Here is a 🧵 of all the biscuits I've made so far in 2021.

First up, my William Morris set. Inspired by an old @V_and_A calendar, everything hand-piped in royal icing. Flavour: cardamom, orange & vanilla.

[Kate Herron Gendreau @KHGarts]

Imagining #museums literate in new media etiquette, operating as the learning institution they are rather than hierarchy, considers dept. collabs good thing, requires board members to take hist. of muse + ethics, and actually cares about workplace culture. So burnt out today guys

[Kate Herron Gendreau @KHGarts]

It often feels like we only have a stereotyped version of the mental health challenges Van Gogh faced..o to see more from a new perspective... https://t.co/hTJdO2RuEn

[Kate Herron Gendreau @KHGarts]

If only #museums were interested in such graceful and equitable leadership...growing pains don’t have to hurt so much!

[Sue Frogley @SueFrogley]

Here’s something that I wrote about our future ways of working at @PublicisMedia in the UK, and how we left it up to our Next Gen Board to ensure the best approach. #nextgen #futureofwork via @Campaignmag
https://t.co/59kyU9kUM7