Bringing Conservation to Younger Audiences: Holly Maxson Conservation Grantees on Outreach

Joanna spent five years exploring the different specialties of conservation before specializing in paper conservation with a minor in photograph conservation in graduate school. She received an MS in Art Conservation from the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation (WUDPAC) and a BA in Art History from Boston University. She has since interned at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Weissman Preservation Center, and the American Philosophical Society. Joanna is currently working as an Associate Paper Conservator at the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts and as an Adjunct Instructor for WUDPAC.

As CCAHA's Education Program Manager, Greg Stuart (he/they) is responsible for connecting CCAHA's virtual and in-person audiences to engaging educational programs, tours, and written resources, bringing preservation awareness to cultural heritage professionals in the Mid-Atlantic region, nationwide, and internationally. Greg develops and plans preventive conservation training and teaches workshops on the care and handling of paper artifacts.

Prior to working at the CCAHA, Greg was the Coordinator of Adult Public Programs and Museum Educator at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. They have also worked in education and public programs roles at the Samek Art Museum, a program of Bucknell University, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Portland Art Museum. Greg has taught art history and museum studies courses at Portland State University, Concordia University, Portland, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He holds an MA in Modern and Contemporary Art History, Theory, and Criticism from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a BA in Art History and English from Loyola University, Chicago.  

Professionally, Nylah is the Assistant Conservator of Objects & Program Assistant at Balboa Art Conservation Center. She received her M.S. in Art Conservation from the Winterthur/ University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation in 2022 and her B.A. with Honors in Archaeology from Stanford University in 2018. She is currently a Core Group member of the AIC Ethics Core Documents Revision Task Force and a founding member of the Black Art Conservators group. Her research interests include equity and inclusion in conservation, preserving ephemera, and fabrication of inorganic objects. Nylah is particularly passionate about public engagement and community connections within art conservation and cultural heritage institutions in the United States.