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Third-Year Internships The third year of the program consists of a twelve-month internship spent away from the department. The intern trains under the supervision of a senior conservator working in the student's area of specialization. Placement is made at the department's discretion in consultation with the student and potential internship supervisors. The progress of each internship is monitored by the student's department advisor through reports submitted periodically by the internship supervisor and the intern. Interns may elect a 20-workday privilege for individual research and study with the approval of the internship supervisor and the department. At the close of the internship year, all interns return to the department in September for final oral presentations and presumed award of the Master of Arts degree and Certificate of Advanced Study in Art Conservation. Recent third year internship placements have been at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Library of Congress, The Carnegie Musem of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, the Denver Art Museum, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Below are pictures of some of our current third year interns working at their respective sites across the country. |
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| Class of '08 Interns |
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| Sara Bisi ('08) is shown here stabilizing several paper projects at the Williamstown Art Conservation Center where she completed her third year internship in paper and photo conservation. |
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| Chris Waters ('08) does some preventive conservation work to stop buildup of bacterial growth on "Cherubs Playing with a Lyre" by Pierre Legros I while completing his third year internship at the National Gallery of Art. |
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| Catalina Vasquez-Kennedy ('08) completed a paintings conservation internship at The Walters Art Museum and is shown here inpainting and varnishing a painting. |
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| Paige Isaccs ('08) is on-site at Martin Puryear's studio consolidating a sculpture made of dirt in preparation for shipment to MoMA for the artist's retrospective show during her third year internship. |
Current Third-Year Interns - Class of 2009 |
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| Ariel O'Connor - The Metropolitan Museum of Art | |
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Ariel is working on the cleaning and consolidation of a carved wooden painted and gilded 17th century Spanish ceiling at the Met. The ceiling was bought by William Randolph Hearst for one of his art galleries in California, but was never installed and sat in storage for decades before it was given to the Met in the 1950's. After almost a year of historical research and materials analysis on the ceiling, they are treating it now for the renovation of the Islamic galleries. Ariel is shown here consolidating the flaking gilding and paint. |
| Robert Krueger - Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art | |
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Robert is busy repairing shipping damages on George Segal pieces before they are put on display at the Nelson-Atkins Museum. |
| Stephanie Porto - The Metropolitan Museum of Art | |
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Stephanie is shown here reducing stains on an 18th century German drawing with a suction platen. She is currently a third year intern in the paper conservation lab at the Met. |
| Elizabeth Nunan - American Museum of Natural History | |
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Beth is studying a series of Tibetan bronzes that consist of Eight Bodhisattvas belonging to Northern Buddhism. She will be conducting a full technological investigation of one of these figures to explore the method of manufacture and to identify and explain the origin and purpose of the disfiguring and darkened coating that covers all of the figures, as well as many others in this collection of the AMNH. |
| Dawn Walus - Harvard University Weissmann Preservation Center | |
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Dawn is working on a 1936 exhibition catalog designed by Salvador Dali for the Julien Levy gallery that has little accordion books under the breasts and belongs to the Harvard University Fine Arts Library. |
| Angela Campbell - The Philadelphia Museum of Art | |
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Angela is working on a discolored Mary Cassatt drypoint titled "En Deshabille" at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. She is shown here bathing the piece to reduce staining. |
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Angela is repairing a badly split 19th-century Indian miniature painting in the paper lab. |
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