Education
Colleen graduated with an MA and CAS in Art Conservation, specializing in paper conservation, from the Patricia H. and Richard E. Garman Art Conservation Program at SUNY Buffalo State College. Prior to her studies in Buffalo, Colleen completed an MA in the history of art at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University and a BA in studio art, art history, and Spanish studies at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Her love of artists' materials, interest in art-making technologies, and passion for the history of art ultimately led her to pursue art conservation.
Conservation experience
Currently, Colleen works at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where she is the Andrew W. Mellon Post-Graduate Fellow in the Conservation of Works of Art on Paper. During her graduate studies, she completed summer internships in paper and photo conservation at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC and the Cincinnati Art Museum. Her final year-long internship was at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.
Before graduate school, Colleen had five years of pre-program conservation experience, including a print survey project at the Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation and internships at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, and Andrea Pitsch Conservation.