Insurance of North
America Fund (INA) Fellowship
2007:
Annie Wilker
Paper Conservation
Educational Background:
University of Texas at Austin. Kilgarlin Center for Preservation of the Cultural Record.
Currently a candidate for a Master of Science in Information Studies with a Certificate of Advanced Study in Conservation. Degree expected 2007.
Fulbright Fellowship awarded for studies in Estonia. (2003)
BFA in Fine Arts, BA in Film, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. (2001)
Past Experience:
Gulf Coast Recovery Project, Jackson, MS. Treated paper and books damaged by Hurricane Katrina, designed and updated the project website, assisted teaching workshops on preservation throughout Mississippi, helped conduct preservation site visits for Mississippi public libraries and wrote follow-up reports. (2006)
The Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, Austin, TX. Student technician for the Rare Books and Archives Department. Experience gained in outfitting a new lab, pamphlet preservation, box-making, and work-flow database management. (2005)
Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of the American Indian, Suitland, MD. Condition surveys and treatment of works of art on paper. Custom-made housings for fragile materials. (2005)
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, Austin, TX. Conservation treatment of art on paper and manuscripts. Surveys and treatments of photographic albums from the collections. (2004)
Ennistuskoda Kanut, Tallinn, Estonia. Conservation treatment of museum objects of leather, metal and shell at Estonian's national conservation firm. Box-making and bookbinding structures under the guidance of museum conservators. (2003)
LC Projects:
Examination and conservation treatment from the Library of Congress rare and special collections including:
- Examination, treatment and housing of selected items from the Joseph Pennell collection in the Prints and Photographs Division.
- Washing, sun-bleaching, and tape stain removal from a Hugo Gellert drawing from the Goldstein Collection in Prints and Photographs Division.
- Washing, lining and mending of a 19th century movie poster.
- Humidifying, flattening and mending of Chinese rubbings from the Asian Division.
2006: Mei-Cheun (Mavis)
Chen
Paper Conservation
Educational Background:
Tainan National University of the Arts: Master’s Degree in the Graduate Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Relics
Chinese Cultural University: BA in Fine Arts
Past Experience:
Internship in the National Taiwan History Museum: examination, documentation, and housing of textiles, photographs and paper objects in preparation for moving to a new facility. Complex conservation treatment of individual items.
Graduate Assistantship for the National Science Council: research project concerning water-damaged paper.
Conservation treatment in private practice of artists’ works.
Emergency treatment of water damaged paper scrolls from National Taiwan Museum
LC Projects:
Conservation treatment from LC’s rare and special collections including:
- 19th C. Chinese paintings on pith: pigment analysis, costume research, study of deterioration mechanisms, conservation treatment
- Leafcasting of American Social Realism Prints
- Rare Book Div. Parchment illuminations: conservation treatment, flattening and housing
- 19th C. movie poster on paper: washing, lining and inpainting.