We're please to announce these new UCLA/Getty Conservation Summer 2024 Courses. These courses are open to everyone!

Job Opening: UCLA/Getty Conservation Program Tenure-track Faculty Position in Organic Materials Conservation. Application link

Job Post: UCLA/Getty Conservation Assistant Professor in the Conservation of Native American/ Pacific Islander Cultural Heritage. The post is live and the link to the recruitment is: Applications are accepted until February 12, 2024.

UCLA/Getty Conservation Program Distinguished Lecture: Gala Porras-Kim “The weight of a patina of time” October 6, 2023 11:00-12:00 Pacific Time. RSVP:

UCLA/Getty Conservation student Taylor Brehm wrapped up her second internship this summer at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Her main project was to conserve the cornices and rafraf of an elaborate Ottoman-era reception room from Damascus. Check out that before and after!

UCLA/Getty Conservation Program Distinguished Lecture: Gala Porras-Kim “The weight of a patina of time” October 6, 2023 11:00-12:00 PT. RSVP: Image: Porras-Kim, 254 offerings for the rain at the Peabody Museum, 2021; © Gala Porras-Kim; photo Paul Salveson

This summer UCLA/Getty Conservation student Makayla Rawlins interned at the Two Mississippi Museums in Jackson, Mississippi with Kathryn Etre. Her projects included co-curating an exhibition, outdoor sculpture cleaning, and treating a set of toy soldiers and a shoeshine seat.

UCLA/Getty Conservation student Cheyenne Caraway is interning at the Autry Museum of the American West and Fine Arts Conservation this summer. Among her many projects, she consolidated and stabilized a Charro saddle, desalinated ceramic vessels, and cleaned outdoor sculpture.

This summer UCLA/Getty Conservation student Taylor Brehm has interned at the Kaymakçı Archaeological Project in western Türkiye. Some of her projects include recovering a ceramic storage vessel (pithos), reconstructing ceramic vessels, and stabilizing corrosion on metal objects.

UCLA/Getty Conservation student Rachel Moore is interning with the Midwest Art Conservation Center where she is working on a wide range of materials, from Barry Flannagan’s “Thinker on a Rock” to an Ojibew birchbark basket and a prototype model chair by Neils Diffrient.

UCLA/Getty Conservation Celebrates Class of 2023.Congratulations Jenny, Lauren, Céline, Isabel, and Tamara!!!

UCLA/Getty Conservation students present research on sustainable alternatives for metals conservation:. Rachel Moore: L-Cysteine.Cheyenne Caraway & Kathryn Peneyra: Saponin (Thanks to Bill Hawkes).Makayla Rawlins: Alanine (Thanks to Chiara Biribicchi).Taylor Brehm: Palm oil

Anya Dani and Jennifer Kim work with UCLA/Getty Conservation students to survey artworks at the Noah Purifoy Outdoor Museum near Joshua Tree. This important work is part of a Mellon funded project organized by the Noah Purifoy Foundation @noahpurifoyfoundation @mellonfoundation

Anya Dani and Jennifer Kim work with UCLA/Getty Conservation students to survey artworks at the Noah Purifoy Joshua Tree Outdoor Museum.

UCLA/Getty Conservation students attend 2023 ANAGPIC conference at Harvard University. Congratulations on great research presentations Jenny, Isabel, and First-year Students!

Welcome back, Justine Wuebold, who is returning to the @NEHgov Embedding Sustainability #NEHgrant, to research barriers to integrating sustainability in conservation!🌱Next steps would be developing open-access resources to update teaching methods.

UCLA/Getty Conservation Students learn foundry techniques at American Fine Arts Foundry in Burbank

UCLA/Getty Conservation students learn gilding skills in their copper alloy, gold, and silver lab course.

UCLA/Getty Conservation students host lab tours at Getty's annual College Night at the Villa

Distinguished Lecture: Ihor Poshyvailo.“Identity War in Ukraine. The Power of Cultural Resistance”.April 7, 2023 11:00 -12:00 Pacific Time. RSVP The lecture will focus on the Russian attack on Ukrainian heritage and on Ukrainian resistance.