Meet Sandrine Blais, NEA Conservation Fellow
Get a glimpse into the paper conservation lab as Sandrine Blais, NEA Conservation Fellow addresses the unique challenges of working with everything from Japanese screens, contemporary works on paper, and Renaissance drawings, just to name a few. Sandrine discusses her research projects and the highlights of her fellowship at CCAHA.
This webinar addresses Focus Area #2: Access to professional development opportunities of the Foundation for the Advancement in Conservation’s (FAIC) Held in Trust Report on Education, Professional Development, and Leadership.
About our speaker:
As CCAHA's 2024-25 Paper Conservation Fellow, Sandrine Blais supports the work of the Paper Lab under the supervision of Senior Paper Conservator Heather Hendry.
Sandrine graduated from Queen’s University, Canada, with an MA in Art Conservation in 2022. She specialized in Paper Conservation, as well as the conservation of photographs and new media. She has completed internships at the National Gallery of Canada and the National Library and Archives of Quebec. Since graduation, she has also done a variety of private work, including helping with mold remediation on an entire mixed material collection, and she is currently a coordinator of the Book and Paper Group of AIC’s Conservation Wiki.