Kate (Kathleen) Eagen Johnson established her consulting business in 2011. Her client list includes the Hasbrouck Family Association for Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz , NY; Greenwich (CT) Historical Society; Conner Prairie Interactive History Park in Fishers, IN; Historic Hudson Valley, Pocantico Hills, NY; Friends of the Tiffany Reading Room in Irvington, NY; Kinderhook (NY) Reformed Church; and others mentioned throughout this website. Kate has authored many publications on history, arts, and design and is a contributing writer to Antiques & the Arts Weekly and Book Review Editor for Nineteenth Century. She has also lectured widely.
Kates serves as the Municipal Historian for the Village of Kinderhook.
Between 1993 and 2011, Kate served as Curator and Director of Collections at Historic Hudson Valley, a museum that administers National Historic Landmarks spanning four centuries. Prior to that, she worked as HHV's Registrar.
She holds a M.A. from the Winterthur Museum Program, University of Delaware, and a B.A. from Syracuse University.
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Senate Curatorial Advisory Board Member for the U.S. Capitol
Wrote cover story on Smithsonian's traveling exhibition "Sargent, Whistler, & Venetian Glass; American Artists and the Magic of Murano" for Antiques & the Arts Weekly, July 1, 2022 issue
New Book Review Editor for the Victorian Society in America's journal Nineteenth Century
New Municipal Historian for the Village of Kinderhook
Script writer and image researcher and editor for “Village of Kinderhook, NY - A Walking Tour of the Square and Beyond,” (under development) to be hosted on Geotourist app
Wrote essay "Between Marketplace and Museum Space: Edwin AtLee Barber, the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art, and American Majolica" for exhibition catalog Majolica Mania: Transatlantic Pottery in England and the United States, 1850–1915
Lectures for the Philadelphia Club and for New Paltz's Historic Huguenot Street