If you are a graduate student in the UCLA/Getty Conservation Program, you either know William Shelley or benefit from his work as Laboratory Manager of the program. Being a professional conservator and himself a 2016 graduate of the master’s program, Shelley is uniquely qualified to make sure the laboratories necessary for graduate students’ use are […]
The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded the UCLA/Getty Program in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage a grant of $310,362 for a project titled “Preservation of Indigenous Collections: Training for Tribal Materials and Museums” to be directed by Prof. Ellen Pearlstein, professor at the Department of Information Studies and the UCLA/Getty Program in the Conservation of Cultural […]
UCLA/Getty faculty and students are well represented in the fall 2021 Newsletter. Prof Ellen Pearlstein co-edited the issue with the Getty Conservation Institute’s Jeffrey Levin. Ellen authored an article on California featherwork, and invited guests to participate in a roundtable discussion. UCLA/Getty alumna Siska Genbrugge (’10) was invited to present about her own work with a museum […]
Location UCLA campus in Westwood and Getty Villa in Malibu, California Description The UCLA/Getty Interdepartmental Degree Program (IDP) in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position to begin July 1, 2022. The appointment will be split 50:50 between the UCLA/Getty Conservation IDP and an appropriate home department depending on […]
Christian de Brer isn’t afraid to be one of the firsts. He was in the first cohort of students to receive MA degrees from the UCLA/Getty Interdepartmental Program in the Conservation of Archaeological and Ethnographic Materials, administered through the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology. With that degree and his practical experience, he eventually became Director of […]
