One of my favorite parts about working in a museum is the being a part of exhibition planning and installation. Conservators actively collaborate with the curators, exhibition design, and installations team to get art safely on the walls. Conservators examine each object on the list for potential display, evaluate its condition, and perform conservation treatment if needed. Often, we also contribute to the gallery text on art materials and techniques.

Conservators care for the museum galleries through regular dusting of the art on display, Integrated Pest Management (monitoring the critters!), and overseeing the transportation of art to outside lenders. 

At the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, I developed and conducted a conditions survey of 28 large scale inkjet transfer works. Read more here.

At Walters Art Museum we help regulate the relative humidity inside the exhibition cases using silica gel desiccants and in the galleries with digital hygrometers. We can follow and manage trends in the galleries with the data we collect. ​

During graduate school I had the opportunity to interview artist Martina Johnson-Allen about her work "The Seven Crones." Her stories on the artwork's materials and inspiration informed my conservation treatment approach. I was able to put into practice the lessons I learned at the 2021 VoCA Artist Interview Workshop.

At the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, we used Microfade Testing (MFT) to evaluate the light sensitivities of several groups of pigment- and dye-based inkjet transfer works