OUTREACH OFFICER | Emerging Conservation Professionals Network (ECPN), AIC
May 2023 - May 2025
- Supervised the ECPN Liaison Program, including Regional, Committee & Network, Specialty Group, and Graduate Liaisons
- Facilitated communication between liaisons and ECPN, regional conservation professional organizations, and the wider AIC membership
- Contributed to the development of the ECPN Liaison Grant program, formulated metrics for evaluation, and reviewed submissions on a semi-annual basis
GRANT REVIEWER | Foundation for Advancement in Conservation (FAIC)
October 2024, February 2025
- Reviewed grant proposals for the FAIC Outreach Grant and assessed applications based on established criteria
BUFFALO STATE COLLEGE LIAISON | ECPN
May 2022-May 2023
- Facilitated communication within and about Buffalo State College’s graduate program
- Hosted and shared events and activities with current students and interested individuals
- Acted as liaison between Buffalo State graduate students and the greater ECPN community
- Communicated with pre-programmers and prospective students
- Maintained email account and inform officers of updates
REGIONAL LIAISON TO PORTLAND, OR | ECPN, AIC
August 2020 - July 2021
- Acted as liaison between emerging conservation professionals in the Portland region and the greater ECPN community
- Shared events, activities, and items of general interest with local ECPs
- Maintained email account and kept officers informed of regional updates
CONSERVATION SCIENCE VOLUNTEER | The Lasseter-Clare Regional Laboratory for the Science of Cultural Heritage Conservation
Spring-Summer 2019
Under direction of PhD Candidate, Dario Durastanti
The Chilkat Dye Project is a project of the Pacific Northwest Conservation Science Consortium, which includes the Clare Lab and Alaska State Museums. The major aim of the project is to provide modern indigenous weavers with information about the materials which were utilized by their ancestors and which continue to be used today. The goal is to be able to identify the source of colors in historic blankets and connect them to the natural product from which the dye originated. A secondary goal is to provide Alaska State Museums with a reference database for research and treatment of Chilkat textiles held in their collection. The project database is being created from the identification of dye compounds in natural products through testing and chemical analysis. Materials tested include wolf moss, indigo, hemlock bark, fireweed and other non-dye compounds like wool fiber. My task was to evaluate mass spectra from peaks on GCMS chromatograms and identify the individual organic components by comparing peaks to those of spectra in databases.
Under direction of PhD Candidate, Dario Durastanti
The Chilkat Dye Project is a project of the Pacific Northwest Conservation Science Consortium, which includes the Clare Lab and Alaska State Museums. The major aim of the project is to provide modern indigenous weavers with information about the materials which were utilized by their ancestors and which continue to be used today. The goal is to be able to identify the source of colors in historic blankets and connect them to the natural product from which the dye originated. A secondary goal is to provide Alaska State Museums with a reference database for research and treatment of Chilkat textiles held in their collection. The project database is being created from the identification of dye compounds in natural products through testing and chemical analysis. Materials tested include wolf moss, indigo, hemlock bark, fireweed and other non-dye compounds like wool fiber. My task was to evaluate mass spectra from peaks on GCMS chromatograms and identify the individual organic components by comparing peaks to those of spectra in databases.
PUBLIC ART CONSERVATION VOLUNTEER | Regional Arts & Culture Council (RACC), Portland Public Art Department
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Fall 2018-Spring 2019
Under direction of Conservation Technician Amanda Kronlage & Registrar Danielle Davis Most outdoor sculpture in Portland is in the collection of RACC. My work included making rounds of downtown areas to assess and document condition of works and note preservation concerns. Some required removal of graffiti and bronzes required protective wax coatings. A major project included the deinstallation of part of a 1977 work by John Kilmaster for treatment. The work is enamel-coated meta, which had begun to fracture and exhibited large losses. Treatment consisted of stabilization of the remaining paint film, filling losses, and inpainting to achieve visual cohesion. The final step was to coat the piece with protective varnish to prevent further loss. With the departure of the conservation technician, I continued to volunteer at RACC under the registrar. I helped process a large acquisition of artwork for the Gladys McCoy Health Department Headquarters. The project included accessioning, cataloging, and photodocumenting numerous works by local artists collected to hang in the new headquarters in Portland. I updated the internal artist database and the external database of outdoor art to provide easy access to the community. |
Mark Calderon, Floribunda, 1998. Image courtesy of RACC
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