Our next meeting will be virtual, held on Wednesday, January 13, 2021. Our featured speaker will be Kathy Gillis. With Conservator Kathy Z. Gillis as our guide, we will take an interactive tour of several current projects underway in the Furniture Conservation Laboratory at Winterthur Museum. All members, please mute yourself upon entering the meeting to eliminate extraneous noises and unmute only when speaking. We look forward to seeing everyone on January 13.
About Kathy Gillis
Kathy Gillis graduated from the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation (WUDPAC) in 1993. Kathy has worked with the furniture collections at Colonial Williamsburg, The J. Paul Getty Museum, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and served as the Head of Conservation at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. Her research includes the European influences on American Furniture, Art Nouveau, Chinese and Indian export furniture, and John Henry Belter. Kathy was the World Monuments Fund Conservator in Residence for the fall 2018 semester of the CRAFT program in Beijing, China, co-sponsored by the Palace Museum and Tsinghua University. Kathy joined the Winterthur Museum staff on March 16, 2020.