Gwynne Ryan appointed chief conservator of Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Gwynne Ryan, conservator of contemporary art, has been appointed the
chief conservator of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden as of
May 4, 2015.  Gwynne has been a member of the Hirshhorn staff for
over five years, playing an active role in the development of
emerging practices the field of contemporary art conservation.  A
leader of Voices in Contemporary Art (VOCA), serving on the board
since 2012, Gwynne has lectured and conducted workshops extensively
on artist interviews, forging collaborations with artists as a means
to identify working methods and materials.

Joining Gwynne at the Hirshhorn Museum are paper conservator
Stephanie Lussier and objects conservator Briana Feston-Brunet.

Stephanie Lussier was appointed in July 2014 to head the
conservation of works of art on paper at the Hirshhorn.  Prior to
joining the Hirshhorn, Stephanie worked as a project conservator at
the Whitney Museum of American Art and at the Philadelphia Museum of
Art, the latter culminating in a collaborative publication entitled
"Descriptive Terminology for Works of Art on Paper: Guidelines for
the Accurate and Consistent Description of the Materials and
Techniques of Drawings, Prints, and Collages".  She is a dedicated
conservation educator and has served as an AIC Board Director since
2011.

Briana Feston-Brunet joined the Hirshhorn in January 2015 as the
sculpture/variable media conservator.  In this new hybrid position,
Briana becomes the first conservator at the Hirshhorn to be
dedicated to the role of time-based media, which is a collecting
focus of the museum.  She will additionally be taking on the
Hirshhorn's artist interview program.  Briana joins the Hirshhorn
following graduate fellowships and positions at LACMA, the J. Paul
Getty Museum, and Sevres-Cite de la Ceramique in Paris, where she
has worked primarily with media art, modern sculpture, and ceramics.

The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is the Smithsonian
Institution's museum dedicated to the art of our time.

Sarah Stauderman
Director of Collections
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Smithsonian Institution


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