Workshops

Harvard Art Museums

Harvard Art Museums
Cambridge, MA

2025

Organized and facilitated objects section for a hands-on workshop for curatorial fellows in proper object handling, examination, and condition reporting. Workshop included a comprehensive handout with terminology and important considerations. 10 participants. Summer 2025.
Introduced and guided graduate student participants in the Summer Institute for Technical Studies in Art (SITSA) through close-looking and material understanding from a conservator’s perspective, focused on plastics. 13 participants. Summer 2025

Museum of Modern Art &
City University of New York

2021 - 2022
New York, NY

Planning committee for the inaugural City University of New York (CUNY) and MoMA workshops for summer 2022. Designed and taught hands-on instructional sessions introducing undergraduates to the field of conservation. Co-led objects conservation teaching station; focused on close-looking, material and fabrication identification, conservation ethics, and basic stabilization methods. Three workshop sessions, 20 participants each.

Garman Art Conservation Department
SUNY Buffalo State University

2021
Buffalo, NY

I guided the class through how to prepare and use customizable cast acrylic resin films as gap fills for glass objects. In preparation for the workshop, I familiarized myself with the process of making the cast acrylic resin fills. I followed the Bristow & Cutajar paper, “Archaeological Glass Conservation: Comparative Approaches and Practicalities of Using Acrylic.” Their article took Stephen Koob’s technique outlined in the paper “An Old Material, a New Technique: Casting Paraloid B-72 for Filling Losses in Glass,” and commented on what worked, didn’t work, and any modifications they found to be successful. For the day of the workshop, I prepared several cast acrylic resin in silicone molds: two of both types with no modifiers, one of each with fumed silica, and one of each with marble dust. During the workshop, I taught my classmates how to prepare the cast acrylic resin films, how to cut/shape the films, and how to fill using practice glass objects.