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Professional Development
Being based in Europe for a year allowed me to explore a wide range of cultural and historical sites, while also networking with international colleagues at in-person and virtual workshops and conferences.
Sites by the Numbers
Since the end of my second year through the end of my third year, I visited 116 cultural sites in 47 cities or towns across 10 different countries.
I use the term “sites” to refer broadly to museums of all kinds, zoos, and landmarks or historic structures of great cultural significance. I aimed specifically to visit anthropological and ethnographic collections whenever possible to assess different approaches to decolonization and the display of culturally sensitive materials.
I also visited the conservation labs of 16 different institutions in Switzerland, the United States, and the United Kingdom.
Il Duomo, Milan
Making bobbin lace during a two-week course on non-woven textile structures
Workshops Attended
Ancient Peruvian Textile Structures, Abegg-Stiftung
Fiber Processing and Spinning, Abegg-Stiftung
Natural Dyeing, Abegg-Stiftung
Non-woven Textile Structures, Abegg-Stiftung
OCAD for Textile Illustration, Abegg-Stiftung
Hydrogels in Conservation, British Library
Conferences Attended
Association of Dress Historians Conference, Turin, Italy, October 2021
Linen Damask Colloquium, Riggisberg, Switzerland, October 2021
APOYOnline Conference,* Virtual, November 2021
RECH6 – 6th International Meeting on Retouching of Cultural Heritage,* Virtual, November 2021
American Institute for Conservation Annual Meeting,* Los Angeles, California, USA, May 2022
*For more information on presentations I gave at these conferences, please see my CV.
Exploring Los Angeles during the AIC Annual Conference