Resume in Art Conservation
OBJECTIVES: Offer clients a professional conservation and restoration treatment in antique furniture and wooden objects with the quality standards required as the ones for a Museum.
Technical Skills:
Knowledge of modern and antique construction and decoration techniques used in furniture;
Knowledge on contemporary conservation treatments and products;
Use of manual and power woodworking tools; wood joinery; wood turning; wood carving; wood finishing.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Present to 2019 - Associate Conservator for the Sherman Fairchild Objects Conservation Department, Metropolitan Musem of Art, NY.
June 2009 to Present - Owner - worker of Heartwood Restorations LLC.
July 2016 to April 2017 - Furniture Medic for Restoration Hardware® Co.
August 2007 to July 2009
Assistant Conservator in the Spanish Ceiling Project for the Islamic Galleries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Brief collaboration as Assistant Conservator on the projects Wrightsman Galleries for French Decorative Arts, and Wisteria Room for 19th and 20th century Galleries, both at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
2004 – 2006
Collaboration as a Conservator of Panel Paintings in the Portuguese Institute of Conservation and Restoration of Lisbon, in the project of the European P.O.C. program, for the study and conservation of 19 panel paintings from the 16th century belonging to the “Retable of the Museum of Évora”.
2002 – 2004
Collaboration as a Conservator of Panel Paintings in the I.P.C.R. through a P.O.C. program, for the study study and conservation of the following projects:
1999 – 2003
Teacher of the discipline “Technology of the Behavior of Materials for the area of Wood and Furniture” at the Professional School of Patrimonial Recuperation, , in Sintra, Portugal.
1993 – 2002
Conservation and Restoration of numerous pieces of National Patrimonial furniture, private and public:
EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS
2002, March
Completed the Master's degree completed in Conservation and Restoration – Area of Furniture, at the “Escola Superior de Conservação e Restauro”.
1993-1996
Three year technical course at the school of “Escola Professional de Recuperation do Património” (E.P.R.P.), in Cacém, Lisbon, where I graduated with a degree of Patrimonial Recuperation Technician in the area of Woods.
ACADEMIC COMMUNICATIONS
2005, November 29
“Conservation and Restoration of painted wood – A technical balance of the interventions and adopted criterias of the supports of forty years in the José de Figueiredo Institute”, Lisbon, Lusíada University.
2003, March 13
“Painting Panels of the Charola of the Convent of Christ”, Convent of Christ, Tomar.
2003, October 9
“Conservation and Restoration of painted wood panels - Resurrection of Lazarus”, Convent of Christ, Tomar.
2003, October 10
Idem, University Nova of Lisbon.
CONFERENCE / SYMPOSIUM PARTICIPATIONS
February 15, 2008
“The Past, Present, and Future of the Period Room”, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, NY.
January 17-19 2008
“Third International Architectural Paint Research Conference”, Columbia University, New York City.
November 24-25, 2005
4th Scientific Encounters of IPCR: “The history, the study and the good methods of Conservation and Restoration”, Lusíada University.
July, 3 and 4, 2005
III Journeys of Art and Science 2005 – “Study and Conservation of Painted Wood”, Católica University, Oporto, Portugal.
November 15, 2004
Workshop of Preventive Conservation, by Stephan Michalsky, I.P.C.R., Lisboa.
June 17, 2003
“Introduction to Organology – Materials and Mechanical-Acoustic Functioning Systems”, Instituto Politécnico de Tomar.
October 29-31, 2002
“POLICROMIA – Religious Polychrome Sculpture from the XVII and XVIII centuries”, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisboa.
October 23, 2002
“Science and Art”, nCoRes, Nova University of Lisbon.
December 5-7, 2001
3rd Scientific Encounters of IPCR – “Mythologies of Diagnoses and Intervention in Heritage”, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon.
October 25-26, 2001
2nd Scientific Encounter of IPCR – “Conservation and Restoration: Different academics for different professional profiles”, Lusíada University, Lisbon.
May, 18-20, 2000
1st Encounters of Conservation and Restoration – “Technologies“, Instituto Politécnico de Tomar.
PUBLICATIONS
2010, November
“The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Spanish Ceiling Project: Interpretation and Conservation”, by Batyah Shtrum, Melanie Brussat, Miguel Garcia, Timothy Hayes, Stephanie Massaux, in Journal of Architectural Conservation, Volume 16, Issue 3. (http://www.donhead.com/journal_architectural_conservation/16%203%20papers/Metropolitan_Museum_Spanish_Ceiling.htm )
2010, May
“The Conservation-Restoration of the “Charola” Paintings of the Convent of Christ in Tomar”, by Frederico Henriques, Ana Bailão and Miguel Garcia, in E-Conservation Magazine.
2005
AA.VV, Políptico de Ferreira do Alentejo, I.P.C.R., Lisbon (Study and Conservation of a Group of 16 century Panel Paintings attributed to António Nogueira Portuguese Painter)
2005
AA.VV, Pintura da Charola de Tomar, I.P.C.R., Lisbon (Monumental Panel Paintings of the Charola of the Convent of Christ of Tomar)
2005
Article “The wood as a painting support – a look from the reverse”, magazine “Pedra & Cal”, issue # 26, Lisbon.
2001
Article “Methods for Consolidation of Woods”, “Ágora” magazine # 7, E.P.R.P.S., Sintra, Lisbon.
OTHER PARTICIPATIONS
2004, August
Coordinator of the rehabilitation of the artistic heritage in the area of Furniture, in the project “AvisArte”, in the Church on the Convent of St. Benedict of Avis, Évora, Alentejo, Portugal.
2002
Jury member of the Professional Adaptation Exams from the Technical Course of Built Heritage”, at E.P.R.P.S.
PROFESSIONAL REFERENCES
Portugal
Portuguese Institute of Conservation and Restoration of Lisbon (I.M.C. - I.P.C.R.)
website: http://www.ipmuseus.pt/pt-PT/conservacao_restauro
Professional School of Recuperation of the Patrimony of Sintra – São Miguel de Odrinhas, Sintra (E.P.R.P.S.) website: http://www.escoladopatrimonio.web.pt
José Alberto Seabra (mnaa.aseabra@ipmuseus.pt), Curator, European Paintings, National Museum of Antique Art, Lisbon (M.N.A.A.)
Joaquim Oliveira Caetano (joaquimcaetano@kanguru.pt), Director of the National Museum of Évora (M.N.E.), work phone: (+351) 266 702604.
Agnés LeGac (alegac@netcabo.pt ) – Curator and Teacher at the University Nova of Lisbon. (U.N.L.)
Pedro Redol (pedro.redol@gmail.com ) – Art-Historian and Curator at the Monastery of Santa Maria of Vitória – Batalha.
Pedro Martins dos Santos (detalhe98@netcabo.pt) – Conservation and Restoration of Furniture.
Rita Vaz Freire (ritavazfreire@hotmail.com ) – Paintings Conservator.
Florindo da Silva Gonçalves – master of Conservation and Restoration of Wood Panel Paintings.
Pedro José Correia (IPCR) - master of Conservation and Restoration of Wood Panel Paintings.
United States of America
Navina Haidar (navina.haidar@metmuseum.org), Curator, Islamic Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, NY.
Mecka Baumeister (mecka.baumeister@metmuseum.org), Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, NY
Technical Skills:
Knowledge of modern and antique construction and decoration techniques used in furniture;
Knowledge on contemporary conservation treatments and products;
Use of manual and power woodworking tools; wood joinery; wood turning; wood carving; wood finishing.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Present to 2019 - Associate Conservator for the Sherman Fairchild Objects Conservation Department, Metropolitan Musem of Art, NY.
June 2009 to Present - Owner - worker of Heartwood Restorations LLC.
July 2016 to April 2017 - Furniture Medic for Restoration Hardware® Co.
August 2007 to July 2009
Assistant Conservator in the Spanish Ceiling Project for the Islamic Galleries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Brief collaboration as Assistant Conservator on the projects Wrightsman Galleries for French Decorative Arts, and Wisteria Room for 19th and 20th century Galleries, both at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
2004 – 2006
Collaboration as a Conservator of Panel Paintings in the Portuguese Institute of Conservation and Restoration of Lisbon, in the project of the European P.O.C. program, for the study and conservation of 19 panel paintings from the 16th century belonging to the “Retable of the Museum of Évora”.
2002 – 2004
Collaboration as a Conservator of Panel Paintings in the I.P.C.R. through a P.O.C. program, for the study study and conservation of the following projects:
- Retable of the 16th century composed by 8 paintings from the church of “Igreja da Misericórdia de Ferreira do Alentejo” in Beja, Alentejo, Portugal.
- 5 Wood panel paintings from the “Charola do Convento de Cristo”, Tomar, Portugal.
- Structure of an 18th century Stable of the Machado de Castro’s Portuguese Sculpture Workshop, at the sacristy of the Basílica da Estrela, Lisbon.
1999 – 2003
Teacher of the discipline “Technology of the Behavior of Materials for the area of Wood and Furniture” at the Professional School of Patrimonial Recuperation, , in Sintra, Portugal.
1993 – 2002
Conservation and Restoration of numerous pieces of National Patrimonial furniture, private and public:
- 17th century Retable from the church of Ulgueira, in Malveira da Serra, Sintra (1993/1995).
- Furniture pieces from the National Museum of Queluz and the National Museum of Mafra (1994/1995).
- Retable-Mor from the church of N. Sra. da Saúde - Convent of Quinta da Penha Longa, Sintra – intervention made on school level as Proof of Professional Adaptation (P.A.P.) and as a personal level in a team (1995/1996).
- Oak pulpit from the 16th century, which belongs to the National Museum Soares dos Reis, Porto (2000/2002).
EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS
2002, March
Completed the Master's degree completed in Conservation and Restoration – Area of Furniture, at the “Escola Superior de Conservação e Restauro”.
1993-1996
Three year technical course at the school of “Escola Professional de Recuperation do Património” (E.P.R.P.), in Cacém, Lisbon, where I graduated with a degree of Patrimonial Recuperation Technician in the area of Woods.
ACADEMIC COMMUNICATIONS
2005, November 29
“Conservation and Restoration of painted wood – A technical balance of the interventions and adopted criterias of the supports of forty years in the José de Figueiredo Institute”, Lisbon, Lusíada University.
2003, March 13
“Painting Panels of the Charola of the Convent of Christ”, Convent of Christ, Tomar.
2003, October 9
“Conservation and Restoration of painted wood panels - Resurrection of Lazarus”, Convent of Christ, Tomar.
2003, October 10
Idem, University Nova of Lisbon.
CONFERENCE / SYMPOSIUM PARTICIPATIONS
February 15, 2008
“The Past, Present, and Future of the Period Room”, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, NY.
January 17-19 2008
“Third International Architectural Paint Research Conference”, Columbia University, New York City.
November 24-25, 2005
4th Scientific Encounters of IPCR: “The history, the study and the good methods of Conservation and Restoration”, Lusíada University.
July, 3 and 4, 2005
III Journeys of Art and Science 2005 – “Study and Conservation of Painted Wood”, Católica University, Oporto, Portugal.
November 15, 2004
Workshop of Preventive Conservation, by Stephan Michalsky, I.P.C.R., Lisboa.
June 17, 2003
“Introduction to Organology – Materials and Mechanical-Acoustic Functioning Systems”, Instituto Politécnico de Tomar.
October 29-31, 2002
“POLICROMIA – Religious Polychrome Sculpture from the XVII and XVIII centuries”, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisboa.
October 23, 2002
“Science and Art”, nCoRes, Nova University of Lisbon.
December 5-7, 2001
3rd Scientific Encounters of IPCR – “Mythologies of Diagnoses and Intervention in Heritage”, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon.
October 25-26, 2001
2nd Scientific Encounter of IPCR – “Conservation and Restoration: Different academics for different professional profiles”, Lusíada University, Lisbon.
May, 18-20, 2000
1st Encounters of Conservation and Restoration – “Technologies“, Instituto Politécnico de Tomar.
PUBLICATIONS
2010, November
“The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Spanish Ceiling Project: Interpretation and Conservation”, by Batyah Shtrum, Melanie Brussat, Miguel Garcia, Timothy Hayes, Stephanie Massaux, in Journal of Architectural Conservation, Volume 16, Issue 3. (http://www.donhead.com/journal_architectural_conservation/16%203%20papers/Metropolitan_Museum_Spanish_Ceiling.htm )
2010, May
“The Conservation-Restoration of the “Charola” Paintings of the Convent of Christ in Tomar”, by Frederico Henriques, Ana Bailão and Miguel Garcia, in E-Conservation Magazine.
2005
AA.VV, Políptico de Ferreira do Alentejo, I.P.C.R., Lisbon (Study and Conservation of a Group of 16 century Panel Paintings attributed to António Nogueira Portuguese Painter)
2005
AA.VV, Pintura da Charola de Tomar, I.P.C.R., Lisbon (Monumental Panel Paintings of the Charola of the Convent of Christ of Tomar)
2005
Article “The wood as a painting support – a look from the reverse”, magazine “Pedra & Cal”, issue # 26, Lisbon.
2001
Article “Methods for Consolidation of Woods”, “Ágora” magazine # 7, E.P.R.P.S., Sintra, Lisbon.
OTHER PARTICIPATIONS
2004, August
Coordinator of the rehabilitation of the artistic heritage in the area of Furniture, in the project “AvisArte”, in the Church on the Convent of St. Benedict of Avis, Évora, Alentejo, Portugal.
2002
Jury member of the Professional Adaptation Exams from the Technical Course of Built Heritage”, at E.P.R.P.S.
PROFESSIONAL REFERENCES
Portugal
Portuguese Institute of Conservation and Restoration of Lisbon (I.M.C. - I.P.C.R.)
website: http://www.ipmuseus.pt/pt-PT/conservacao_restauro
Professional School of Recuperation of the Patrimony of Sintra – São Miguel de Odrinhas, Sintra (E.P.R.P.S.) website: http://www.escoladopatrimonio.web.pt
José Alberto Seabra (mnaa.aseabra@ipmuseus.pt), Curator, European Paintings, National Museum of Antique Art, Lisbon (M.N.A.A.)
Joaquim Oliveira Caetano (joaquimcaetano@kanguru.pt), Director of the National Museum of Évora (M.N.E.), work phone: (+351) 266 702604.
Agnés LeGac (alegac@netcabo.pt ) – Curator and Teacher at the University Nova of Lisbon. (U.N.L.)
Pedro Redol (pedro.redol@gmail.com ) – Art-Historian and Curator at the Monastery of Santa Maria of Vitória – Batalha.
Pedro Martins dos Santos (detalhe98@netcabo.pt) – Conservation and Restoration of Furniture.
Rita Vaz Freire (ritavazfreire@hotmail.com ) – Paintings Conservator.
Florindo da Silva Gonçalves – master of Conservation and Restoration of Wood Panel Paintings.
Pedro José Correia (IPCR) - master of Conservation and Restoration of Wood Panel Paintings.
United States of America
Navina Haidar (navina.haidar@metmuseum.org), Curator, Islamic Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, NY.
Mecka Baumeister (mecka.baumeister@metmuseum.org), Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, NY