About Me

Angela Hermano Crenshaw is an art historian, curator, and educator specializing in dress and textiles. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture at the Bard Graduate Center in New York City, where she recently earned her MA. Her work focuses on American receptions of the Philippines in the US colonial period via material objects, particularly textiles. She has shared her work at conferences at Yale University, Boston University, and the New England Museums Association, and regularly lectures on Philippine textiles and dress history. Angela received her undergraduate degree in Art History from the University of St Andrews in Scotland and has held positions at Providence College Galleries and the RISD Museum, where she also curated the exhibition “From Pineapple to Pañuelo: Philippine Textiles.” 

Get in touch: angela.crenshaw@bgc.bard.edu