Gaughen headed to New York

Sunny Gaughen, granddaughter of Noralla Thomas of Alzada, has accepted a summer internship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute in New York City. She will be working primarily with costume dyes. Gaughen is a junior at Vassar College majoring in International Relations and Russian. She has worked for the Vassar Theater Department's costume department since she began college. The costume department builds costumes for all productions ensuring specifications that are authentic to the time period of the play.

Gaughen has just completed her junior year abroad. During fall semester, she attended the American University in St. Petersburg, Russia where she attended art history classes at the Hermitage. She attended Charles University in Prague in the Czech Republic spring semester.

The Metropolitan Museum hires forty summer interns every summer to work in seventeen different departments. The Metropolitan Museum, built in 1870, is the largest art museum in America. It contains 2 million artworks and welcomes 6.7 million visitors annually. Gaughen will be working in the textile department assisting in fabric dyes.

Gaughen is a 2014 graduate of Chamberlain High School in central South Dakota and was a recipient of a full Vassar Scholarship. She is the daughter of Tim Gaughen of Deadwood and Tara Thomas of Warwick, North Dakota.