About
Katie Sabo received a B.A. in history from Reed College in 2007 and a M.A. in textile conservation from the Fashion Institute of Technology in 2013.
Katie has completed textile conservation and mounting projects for the Museum of Modern Art [MoMA], Bourse de Commerce-Pinault Collection (Paris, France), the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, the New York Historical Society, the American Textile History Museum, the Rubin Museum, the Museum of the Moving Image, the Metropolitan Opera, and many private clients.
In 2018, she was the lead conservator responsible for the retrospective exhibition Rodarte at the National Museum for Women in the Arts. In 2022, she lead a team of 7 conservators to restore a 3000 square foot painted Opera back drop from the 1964 Marc Chagall designed production of the Magic Flute.
Katie also works as an educator, teaching textile mounting and three-dimensional mount fabrication in the Graduate program in Fashion Studies and Textile Conservation at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City.