Betty Fiske
Paper Conservator
and Adjunct Assistant Professor
Betty Fiske has an M.F.A. in printmaking and painting from Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, with undergraduate study at the Cleveland Art Institute. Before entering the field of conservation, she was a curator for the original Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Inc., in Los Angeles, an etcher for Tyler Graphics, Ltd. in Bedford Village, New York, taught printmaking at Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, and was a curator for the artist Robert Motherwell in Greenwich, CT. She apprenticed in paper conservation with Mary Todd Glaser and Marilyn Weidner. In WUDPAC she studied paper conservation with Anne Clapp and photograph conservation with Jose Orraca, graduating in 1982. Fiske interned and then worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for 11 years. Between 1971 and 1991, she has made many trips to Japan to visit museums, papermakers, scroll mounters, and traditional craftspeople. In 1986, she spent one year in Japan with grants from NEA and the Asian Arts Council to study the production, materials and conservation of Japanese woodblock prints. She has lectured widely on conservation and taught at the New York University Conservation Training Program, the Art Conservation Program at New York State University College, Buffalo, the Campbell Center for Preservation Studies, the Paper and Book Intensive course, and about collection emergency response nationally. She has been active in the American Institute for Conservation Book, Paper Group and Photographic Materials Group since 1974.
