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Philadelphia Museum of Art 

September 2022 - August 2023
Third Year Internship Placement

Primary Supervisors 

Sally Malenka, Senior Conservator of Decorative Arts and Sculpture

Melissa Meighan, Conservator of Decorative Arts and Sculpture

Kate Cuffari, Conservator of Decorative Arts and Sculpture

PMA Treatments

MAJOR TREATMENT PROJECTS

Below are the major treatment projects from my third-year internship.

Please click the "Learn More" buttons for more information on each project. 

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BRILLO BOX

Paint and ink on wood. 1964. Andy Warhol. 

Key treatment skill: Creating Japanese paper fills for losses in screen print ink.

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FLY

White eartheware with luster and metallic overglaze decorations. 1982. Lizbeth Stewart.

Key treatment skill: Complex structural repair.

GOBLET

Painted enamel on copper with gilt decoration. c.1560. Attributed to Pierre Reymond. 

Key treatment skills: Reversing old fills and loss compensation for enamel.

MARQUETRY PANEL

Various woods, copper alloy, and elephant ivory on a wood panel with gilded copper alloy frame. 1874-1876. Rosalie-Eléonore-Antoinette Duvinage/ Maison Alphonse Giroux. 

Key treatment skills: Japanese paper fills, surface cleaning. 

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STANDING FIGURE OF SUSAN MACDOWELL EAKINS 

Plaster, painted. 1894. Samuel Murray. 

Key treatment skill: Complex loss compensation with mold making. 

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"OMBELLES" HAIR COMB

Horn and baroque pearls. c.1904. Lucien Gaillard.

Key treatment skills: Delicate structural repair and loss compensation for horn.

DEEP DESSERT PLATE

Hard paste porcelain, lead glaze, printed, enamel, and gilded decoration.  c. 1817-1820. The partnership of Dagoty and Honoré.

Key treatment skills: Porcelain fills with bulked Hxtal and inpainting with an airbrush.

UNTITLED (PLANTS),
FARMERS AND COWS TILLING 

Carved wood. 20th century. George Lopez. 

Key treatment skill: Numerous structural repairs completed on a tight exhibition deadline. 

PEONY PLANT

Green nephrite, amethyst, quartz or agate, carnelian or sard, turquoise, jade, glass beads, cinnabar lacquer, wood, ferrous and non-ferrous metal wires, dyed silk threads, hide glue (est.). Early 19th century. Artist/maker unknown, Chinese/ Qing Dynasty (1644-1911).

Key treatment skills: Surface cleaning and creating cast Paraloid B72 fills for losses in semi-precious stones. 

ADDITIONAL THIRD YEAR HIGHLIGHTS

Research Days

  • Collections Care Project at the William Way LGBTQ Community Center, Philadelphia, PA (5 days)

  • AIC Rigging Basics for Conservation Professionals Workshop, Bordentown, NJ (3 days)

  • Glass Conservation Workshop, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA (5 days)

  • Sand Casting Workshop, Peters Valley School of Craft, Layton, NJ (5 days)​

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Outreach & Teaching

  • Collections Care Project at the William Way LGBTQ Community Center

  • Teaching ceramics repair techniques to conservation pre-program intern

  • Co-teaching WUDPAC second year portfolio seminar with Lauren Fair​

Sand casting workshop participants at Peters Valley School of Craft.

With the PMA fellows and interns group at the Science History Institute. 

Teaching ceramics repair, fill, and inpainting to Payton Murray, Art Bridges Pre-Program Conservation Fellow.

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