August 1993
to present |
Conservator in private practice
serving and advising museums, corporations and
private collectors. Lead investigator to the
Kemper Museum of Art and Design, Kansas City, MO
on the Georgia O’Keeffe/Canyon Suite
watercolors, Winter 1999-2000. |
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Spring 1994 |
Visiting Scholar, Conservation
Center, Institute for Fine Arts, New York
University. |
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October 1990 to August 1993 |
Assistant Conservator of Graphic
Art, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas
City. Responsible for the daily operation of
paper conservation programs.
Design and implementation of NEA funded print
storage grant. |
| September 1988
to September 1990 |
Mellon Fellow, Paper Conservation, National
Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. |
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September 1987 to July 1988 |
Advanced Intern, Strauss Center
for Conservation and Technical Studies, Fogg
Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. |
| August 1988 |
M.A., Art Conservation, Certificate of
Advanced Study, Buffalo State College, Buffalo, NY. |
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May 1979 |
B.A., Southern Illinois
University, Carbondale IL, Specialization in
Drawing and
Printmaking. |
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Noblesville Indiana Public School System,
grades K-12. |
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| Papers: |
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June 1996 |
“Collector’s Mounts for Drawings
and Prints, Their History, Materials and
Conservation.” Book and Paper Session, 22nd
Annual Conference of the American Institute for
Conservation, Norfolk, VA. |
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February 1994 |
“Restorer’s Intent: The Role of
Theory in Historic Print Restoration Practices.”
College Arts Association Annual Conference, New
York, NY. |
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June 1992 |
“Evaluating Prior Restorations
in Old Master Prints.” General Session, 20th
Annual Conference of the American Institute for
Conservation, Richmond, VA. |
| October 1988 |
“A History of the Treatment of Prints.”
Symposium ‘88. An International
Conference on the Conservation of Paper.
National Gallery of Canada. Ottawa,
Ontario. |
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| Publications: |
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“Print Restoration in Northern
Europe: Stimulus, Development and Literature
from the Late Renaissance to the 1930's.”
Conservation Research 1995. Studies
in the History of Art, 51 Monograph Series II.
National Gallery of Art,
Washington D.C. (1995) pp. 111-127. |
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“The Treatment of Prints.”
Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works on
Paper. Proceedings of a Conference, Symposium
88. Canadian Conservation Institute. Ottawa,
Ontario (1994) pp. 133-142. |
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“A Seventeenth-Century Manual for the
Restoration of Prints.” Print Quarterly.
vol. VIII, No.4 (December 1990) pp.420-424. |
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| Graduate courses: |
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Spring, 1998 |
The Stuff of Art: Methods and
Materials in the Graphic Arts. University of
Kansas. Lecturer. Funded by the Mellon
Foundation. |
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Spring, 1994 |
Material and Techniques in the
Graphic Arts. Conservation Center, Institute for
Fine Arts, New York University. Visiting
Scholar. |
| Spring, 1993 |
Methods and Materials in the Graphic Arts.
The University of Kansas. Lecturer. |
