Internships at Art Conservation de Rigueur

Pre Program and/or Graduate Conservation Internship (4 positions)
Art Conservation de Rigueur et Anoxia Abatement Solutions

Spring - Summer Session 2015 and
Fall/Winter - Spring 2015-2016

Start Date April 6, 2015 for the Spring-Summer Session

Flexible start date (late August to mid September, 2015) for the
Fall/Winter through Spring 6-9 months, or longer.

20 to 30 hours per week

Hands-on practicum in a San Francisco private conservation practice
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 may include:  European tapestry, needlepoint, Asian and
Oriental embroideries, costume, ethnographic weavings and objects,
works on paper and rare books, sculpture, Native American objects
Japanese painted silk screens, Indian toran, Tibetan thangka, silk
flags, oil paintings, among many others.

We will also be working on a major long-term and ongoing historic
drapery conservation project funded by the Nation Historic Trust for
the Filoli Estate.

Applied skills to be instructed:  hepavacuuming, hand sewn linings
and mounts, object cleaning, CO2 anoxia, ATP bioluminescence
testing, freezer treatments, 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
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.
Previous internship experience in conservation and/or museum
collection care and handling is preferred.  Many of our prior
interns have gone on to wonderful successes in this highly
competitive and technically complex field.

Applicants may send letter of intent and interest, one letter of
recommendation and CV to elise<-at->artconservationderigueur<.>com by
February 20, 2015 (for the Spring) and June 15, 2015 (for the Fall).
Qualified candidates will be requested for interviews over Skype.

National and International applicants are welcome.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Elise Yvonne Rousseau
Principal Conservator, Textiles, Historic Objects and Decorative
    Arts
Art Conservation de Rigueur et Anoxia Abatement Solutions
577 14th Avenue, No. 2
San Francisco CA 94118
415-751-2540
Mobile: 415-235-4884


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