What Is... Art Conservation? with Emy Kim

Date

Saturday February 5, 2022
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

Location

Emy Kim, Assistant Professor, Artifacts Conservation, leads a Zoom talk on art conservation, presented by the Agnes Etherington Art Centre. Her talk focuses on the role of a museum conservator, conservation training, ethics, and more. Admission is free with registration.

Sproule, Peter

Peter is smilling at the camera.

Peter Sproule

Ph.D. Candidate

Art History Program

Major Fields of Interest: Twentieth-century visual culture; art and design in the German-speaking world; fashion studies; material culture; illustration studies.
Undergraduate Experience: Carthage College, BA, majors: German and Studio Art, minor: Art History (2016)
Graduate Experience: University of Toronto, MA, Art History (2020)
PhD thesis: â€œMasculine Fashion Culture in Post-war Germany: Reconstructing the Ideal Man through Illustrationâ€�
Supervisor: Dr. Allison Morehead and Dr. Elizabeth Otto (University at Buffalo)

Hume, Natalie

Natalie Hume, Ph.D.

Natalie Hume

Ph.D. Candidate

Art History Program

Major Fields of Interest: Symbolism, Expressionism, Modernism, 19th century print culture and postermania, avant-gardism, and curatorial practice. 
Undergraduate Experience: â€¯B.A. Art History, University of Calgary.
Graduate Experience: â€¯M.A. Art History, University of Toronto.
Dissertation Topic: Visual Representations of Eschatological Fears and Millenarian Anxieties in Europe and North America from the late 19th to the early 20th century.
Supervisor: Dr. Allison Morehead

Asimakis, Magdalyn

Magdalyn Asimakis, Ph.D. Candidate

Magdalyn Asimakis

Ph.D. Candidate

Art History Program

Major Fields of Interest: global modernisms, feminisms, curatorial practice, institutional critique, print culture.
Undergraduate Experience: University of Toronto, B.A. (Honours), Major in Art History, Major in History (2007)
Graduate Experience: University of Victoria, M.A., Art History (2010)
Supervisor: Dr. Allison Morehead

Ryan, Laura

Laura Ryan, Ph.D. Candidate

Laura Ryan

Ph.D. Candidate

Art History Program

Major Fields of Interest: Primitivism, turn-of-the century French modernism, and issues of identity, self-fashioning, transnationalism, and feminism.
Undergraduate Experience: Towson University, B.A. in Art History. Thesis entitled "Symbolic Judgment: An Iconological Analysis of James Ensor’s The Seven Deadly Sins Print Series."
Graduate Experience: American University, M.A. in Art History. Thesis entitled "Subverting Orientalism and Primitivism? Sonia Delaunay's Yellow Nude, 1908."
Supervisor: Dr. Allison Morehead

Darvin, Hannah

Hannah Darvin, Ph.D. Candidate

Hannah Darvin

Ph.D. Candidate

Art History Program

Major Fields of Interest: Luke Fildes; doctor-patient relationship; nineteenth-century British Art; Victorian visual culture; histories of nineteenth-century medicine; medical humanities

Undergraduate Experience: B.A. Honours, major in Art History with a minor in Political Studies (2009), Ä¢¹½´«Ã½'s University.

Graduate Experience: M.A. Fine and Decorative Art (2011), Sotheby's Institute of Art, London, UK; M.A. Art History (2010), University of Toronto.

Dissertation Title: Sentimentalizing Medicine: Luke Fildes’s The Doctor (1891) and the Idealized Image of the Physician-Patient Relationship

Supervisor: Dr. Allison Morehead

Tennant, El

Tennant, El

El Tennant

Ph.D. Candidate

Art History Program

Major Fields of Interest: The illicit art market; archaeological looting; cultural heritage restitution; memory and identity.

Undergraduate Experience: University of Waterloo, B.A. (Honours) in Classics (2017)

Graduate Experience: University of Waterloo, M.A. in Classics (2019)

PhD Thesis Title: The Memory of Loss: Identity Formation as Influenced by Cultural Heritage Looting in Italy from Antiquity to Present Day

Supervisor: Dr. Cathleen Hoeniger