Tara Kaufman is Associate Curator of Clothing and Textiles at History Colorado. A former Assistant Curator at the James A. Michener Art Museum, she curated WaléOyéjidé Flight of the Dreamer (2022) and co-curated, with Dr. Laura Turner Igoe, Through the Lens: Modern Photography in the Delaware Valley (2021) at the Michener. She specializes in modern and contemporary American art, and her research has been supported by the Smithsonian American Art Museum. She received her Master of Arts in art history from Temple University’s Tyler School of Art and Architecture.