Arden Kirkland
Arden Kirkland (VC '93) currently splits her work between Vassar (Costumer for the Drama Department), Bard College (Costume Designer for the Dance 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 public 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 use of digital collections as a teaching resource.