Extend your academic and practical experience through a supervised, constructive and instructive environment, supportive to your future professional development. Join our professional staff and other interns already on the team. Our practice is a non-stop busy beehive of projects and activity to learn and gain experience from on a daily basis.
(2) Internship Positions Open Pre-Program (unpaid) and/or Post Graduate Conservation (with Stipend) Fall - Winter 2018-2019 6 to 9 months U.S. Citizens/Residents - *3 months International Applicants 28 to 35 hours per week Hands-On Practicum In San Francisco, California in a Multi-Disciplinary Private Conservation Practice Specializing in Textiles, Objects, Decorative Arts, Paintings, Mold and Pest Remediation/Abatement Treatments. And Most Especially Emergency and Disaster Recovery: Smoke, Sash and Soot, Cleaning and Remediation of Fine Art Collections from Northern and Southern California Wildfires and Floods. Projects May Include: Oil and Acrylic Paintings, Watercolors, Prints, European tapestry, needlepoint, Asian and Oriental embroideries, costume, dress and textile collections, ethnographic weavings and objects, works on paper, rare books, ceramics, sculpture, Native American objects, Japanese painted silk screens, Tapa cloths, quilts, Tibetan Thangka, silk flags, and other ephemera, among many others. *We will also be working on a major longterm and ongoing historic drapery conservation project funded by the Nation Historic Trust for the Filoli Estate. Applied Skills to be Instructed: micro-hepa vacuuming, hand sewn repairs, linings and mounts, object cleaning, in-fills, stabilization, consolidation CO2 anoxia encapsulation, ATP bioluminescence testing, dry thermal vacuum freezer treatments, integrated pest management, environmental monitoring, research, condition reports, photo documentation, object cataloging, material and fiber analysis, working with custom formulated non-aqueous gels, solvents and adhesives, archival materials and custom fabrication of housing, boxes and much more… Applicants must either be currently enrolled in a program leading to a diploma or degree in a conservation or relevant museum collections care field, have completed appropriate studies within the past three years, or are considered "Pre-Program" continuing students pursuing a graduate conservation program, but need to accrue the needed 1000+ hours of experience prior to applying—in which case, this is a great place to accumulate some of those 100’s requisite hours. Previous internship experience in conservation and/or museum collection care and handling is preferred, this is not a first time internship, but an intermediate to advance experience placement internship . Many of our prior interns have gone on to wonderful successes in this highly competitive and technically complex field. For Post Graduate applicants, this is a wonderful situation to find some initial grounding experience coming out of your program experience and into practical real world application and treatments, as well as, interfacing with clients and project management skills. Applicants may send a letter of intent and interest, digital portfolio, one letter of recommendation and CV to Elise Rousseau, Principal Conservator at: el...@artconservationderigueur.com <mailto:el...@artconservationderigueur.com> Qualified candidates will be requested for in person interviews, or over Skype. National and International applicants are welcome. APPLICATIONS DUE DATE EXTENDED: June 30th. Potential Starting Dates betweenAugust 15th, and September 10th 2018. ACdRConservation.com <http://acdrconservation.com/> ACdR Conservation LLC. Art Conservation de Rigueur et Anoxia Abatement Solutions Elise Yvonne Rousseau, Principal Conservator Textiles, Historic Objects, Decorative Arts, Furniture & Paintings Emergency & Disaster Recovery - Mold & Pest Remediation San Francisco, CA studio tele 415-751-2540 cel. 415-235-4884 el...@artconservationderigueur.com <mailto:el...@artconservationderigueur.com> Costume Society of America, Western Regional Board of Directors 2009-2012, 2012-2015, 2015-2018 Board of Directors Bay Area Art Conservation Guild 2014-2017 All work is performed according to the Code of Ethics, Guidelines, and Standards of Practice of The American Institute for the Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works Member: ICOM-CC Textile Working Group, AIC Conservators in Private Practice, Textile, Paintings and Objects Specialty Groups Textile Society of America - Western Association of Art Conservation ****** Unsubscribe by sending a message to consdistlist-le...@cool.conservation-us.org Searchable archives: http://cool.conservation-us.org/byform/mailing-lists/cdl/
