VIDEO - From Scroll to Screen: The Innovative Digitization of a Japanese Cultural Treasure. Credit: Ohio State University Libraries, 2023.
VIDEO - Ask GEM: What Happens in our Conservation Lab? Taina Meller and Sarah Casto give a tour. Credit: George Eastman Museum, 2020.
Inpainting a photograph at the Art Insittute of Chicago. Photo by Kaspar Karlow
About Me
I returned home to Central Ohio as Photograph and Paper Conservator at The Ohio State University Libraries after three years at the George Eastman Museum, the home of the founder of Eastman Kodak in Rochester, New York. At the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas, I was part of an interdepartmental team that undertook a state-of-the-art expansion of the Carter’s photography vaults for long-term preservation of over 350,000 photographic objects. I developed an understanding and appreciation of a wide range of cultural items, ranging from scrapbooks and archival documents to one-of-a-kind fine art photographs during internships at the Smithsonian Institution Archives, The Better Image, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Cleveland Museum of Art.
professional affiliations
Education
Master of Arts & Certificate of Advanced Study, Art Conservation, Buffalo State University
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Photography, Bowling Green State University
Conservation Experience
Ohio State University Libraries, Photograph and Paper Conservator, present
George Eastman Museum, Assistant Conservator, 2020-2023
Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Photograph Conservation Fellow, 2017-2019
The Art Institute of Chicago, Graduate Conservation Intern, 2016-2017
The Better Image, Graduate Conservation Intern, 2016
Smithsonian Institution Archives and Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Women’s Committee Conservation Intern, 2015
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Pre-Program Conservation Intern, 2011-2014