Biography

Kathryn Peneyra grew up in Chapel Hill, NC. She earned a BA in chemistry from Carleton College in 2017. In her undergraduate thesis she examined the use of X-ray fluorescence in imaging underpaintings. In the years since graduating, she has been expanding her conservation knowledge through conservation internships alongside her full-time job as ecological landscaper. Katheryn did internships in the objects conservation laboratory at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA, and at the National Park Services in Lowell, MA. Both internships exposed her to a wide variety of cultural materials, including canopic jars, Tlingit double-headed daggers, and Indian unbaked clay figures. Kathryn also spent a summer doing outdoor sculpture conservation with private conservators in Seattle, WA. Kathryn is excited to engage more holistically with conservation while at UCLA, learning not just about conservation treatment but also about fieldwork, community outreach, ethics, research, and sustainability.