Tara Kaufman

Associate Curator of Clothing & Textile Arts

Tara Kaufman is History Colorado’s Associate Curator of Clothing and Textile Arts. She received her master of arts in art history from the Tyler School of Art and Architecture in Philadelphia. Previously, she served as the William H. Truettner Graduate Fellow at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and Assistant Curator at the James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, where she curated the exhibit Ethel Wallace: Modern Rebel and co-wrote the accompanying catalogue.

Tara Kaufman

Written by Tara Kaufman

  • The wedding gown of Elizabeth “Baby Doe” Tabor on display at the Center for Colorado Women’s History

    Against Great Odds

    Elizabeth “Baby Doe” Tabor’s wedding gown grew into a symbol of her controversial marriage to Colorado’s Silver King. Its rediscovery and display after her death echoes her own survival story.

  • Tag Team promotional picture, 1993.

    Tag Team Back Again

    History Colorado curators Acoma Gaither and Tara Kaufman recently sat down with Cecil “DC” Glenn and Steve Gibson of the iconic hip-hop duo Tag Team, who got their start in Denver and whose single “Whoomp! (There It Is)” went multi-platinum in the ’90s.