Internships at Art Conservation de Rigueur

Pre-program and/or graduate conservation internships (2 positions)
Art Conservation de Rigueur
San Francisco
Fall and Winter 2013-2014

Start Date September 2, 2013
6  months or longer

25 to 30 hours per week

Hands-On Practicum in San Francisco private conservation practice
<URL:http://www.artconservationderigueur.com> specializing in
Textiles, Objects, Decorative Arts and Some Minor Painting
Treatments.

Extend your academic and practical experience through a supervised,
constructive and instructive environment, supportive to your future
professional development.

Projects Include:  European tapestry, needlepoint, Asian and
Oriental embroideries, costume, ethnographic weavings and objects,
works on paper and rare books, sculpture, Japanese painted silk
screens, Indian Toran, silk flags, and many others.

Applied Skills:  Hepa vacuuming, hand sewn linings and mounts,
object cleaning, CO2 anoxia, freezer treatments, pest management,
environmental monitoring, research, condition reports, photo
documentation, object cataloging, material and fiber analysis,
archival materials and custom fabrication of housing and boxes.

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 "Pre-Program" applicants pursuing a graduate
conservation program, but need to accrue the needed 800-1200 hours
of experience prior to applying--in which case this is a great place
to accumulate some of those 100's requisite hours.  Many of our
previous interns have gone on to have wonderful successes in this
highly competitive field.

Applicants may send letter of interest and CV by August 19, 2013.

Elise Yvonne Rousseau
Principal Conservator Textiles
Historic Objects and Decorative Arts
577 14th Avenue - No. 2
San Francisco, CA 94118
415-751-2540 (phone/fax)
Mobile: 415-235-4884


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