The Conservation lab of the Center of the West has hosted interns from amazing places. This photograph shows 2013 conservation interns from various countries touring Caleco Foundry in Cody, Wyoming.
Benjamin Regal, Conservation Intern summer of 2013, is now project conservator for the Science Museum in London. He is working on a new gallery called Information Age. Ben worked on many projects while in Wyoming and carried out a comparative study of the Peace Medals in the Plains Indian collection. Ben used the microscope to record visual information and the XRF to record information about alloy content.
Siobhan Coop, a citizen of the United Kingdom, was an intern who graduated from Lincoln University with an MA in the Conservation of Historic Objects.
Tiia Yli-Kankahila interned in Cody during her course of study at the University of Helsinki/Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences in Finland.
Kyoung-eun Park a citizen of South Korea graduated from the Northumbria University, UK program in the conservation of Works of Art on Paper during her summer internship in 2012.
Laura Villar from the E.S.C.R.B.C. High School of Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Property in Madrid interned during the summer of 2013 and worked on many, many books and works of art on paper.
Egyptian Ycoub Badr Yacoub Soleman also completed an internship during 2013 and worked on many books.
We have also hosted US citizens who completed their conservation training in foreign lands.
Susanna Donovan completed her advanced degree at the University de Paris, Sorbonne, Masters in Art Conservation, specializing in Books and Paper.
University College London (UCL) conservation program accepted Nora Frankel who is an artist from Massachusettes and was one of the first conservation interns during the summer of 2008. Tania Desloge a US citizen and Benjamin Regel a citizen of the UK, both students from the UCL program interned at the Center in 2013.
This coming summer Laura Villar will be returning from Spain to conserve books and works on paper. Two of her fellow graduates will be joining us from Spain: Blanca Romero and Zulema Garcia. Anahit Campbell is a US citizen who is currently in the West Dean Conservation Program. Cristiana Ginatta is an Italian citizen who resides in Dallas but will be joining us this summer. In residence will also be two more interns who are US citizens and are training to apply for entrance into conservation programs.
