Hailing from Phoenix, Arizona, Danny Gonsowski is interning with the conservation department at the Center of the West. He has earned a BA in Japanese studies with a minor in […]
The Conservation Department
The conservation department works to preserve all the collections held at the Center and has become an international training center for young conservation and preservation professionals.
From the Streets to the Academy: the Charles G. Clarke Story
Charles G. Clarke (1899 – 1983) may not have been present for the settling of the American West, but he sure was present for the building of its mythology. In […]
Donor Impact: Mary Hiestand
Charles G. Clarke was a pioneering Hollywood cinematographer, one of the first to film “talkies.” His real love, though, was history, especially that of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, and […]
Center of the West Conservator Beverly Perkins receives Sheldon & Caroline Keck Award
The Buffalo Bill Center of the West’s Chief Conservator, Beverly Perkins, has been named a recipient of the Sheldon & Caroline Keck Award from the American Institute for Conservation (AIC). […]
Analyzing Obsidian Lithics using Portable X-ray Fluorescence (pXRF)
Revealing how Plains Indians traversed the Washakie WildernessBy Alyssa Rina and Kate Breitenstein At the Buffalo Bill Center of the West (The Center), Conservation interns Alyssa Rina, Kate Breitenstein, Sarah […]
The One with the Tapestry
My first textile conservation project at the Center of the West was a sixteenth century European tapestry privately owned by one of the Conservation Internship Program’s most generous donors (she […]
