Katie Sabo is a textile conservator based in Princeton, N.J. Katie specializes in the conservation of modern and contemporary textile art, including cleaning, repair, and loss compensation. She is particularly skilled in the mounting of complex, multi dimensional and mixed media textile-based art.
Katie has completed projects for the Museum of Modern Art [MoMA], the Guggenheim Museum, 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 is also an adjunct instructor at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City, teaching costume mounting and three-dimensional mount fabrication in the Graduate program for Fashion Studies and Textile Conservation. She 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.