Lois Olcott Price
Affiliated Assistant Professor
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716
Biography
​Lois Olcott Price, former Director of Conservation and currently an
Affiliated Assistant Professor at UD and Adjunct Senior Conservator at
Winterthur, graduated cum laude with a major in history from Connecticut
College in 1971. After completing her M.A. in the Winterthur Program in
Early American Culture she worked for The Magazine Antiques and served
as Director of Museum Planning for the Filson Club in Louisville, KY. In
1980 she completed her M.S. in WUDPAC majoring in paper conservation
and interning at the Library of Congress. For the next 13 years she
worked at the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts, a
non-profit regional center in Philadelphia, rising to the position of
senior conservator responsible for the treatment of all library and
archival materials. In 1986 she also assumed responsibility for
co-managing the laboratory which involved training interns, apprentices
and technicians, performing and supervising conservation surveys, and
designing and conducting educational programs. In 1994, Price became
Conservator of Library Collections for the Winterthur Museum where she
was responsible for all conservation activities in an 85,000-volume
special collections library and for teaching in both the WUDPAC and
WPEAC programs. In 2007 she became Director of Conservation at
Winterthur, assuming responsibility for supervising a staff of 20
conservators and support staff and for promoting conservation activities
and education throughout the institution and in the larger community.
Her professional activities include conservation advocacy and outreach
leading to involvement in disaster relief activities after Hurricane
Katrina, a current project training cultural heritage professionals in
Iraq and engagement in projects promoting preventive conservation and
sustainability as well as public programs to help Winterthur reach new
audiences. Her long-term research interest in architectural drawings
resulted in the 2010 publication of Line, Shade and Shadow: The Fabrication and Preservation of Architectural Drawings, which won the Historic Preservation Book of the Year Award. Lois retired from Winterthur in 2015 but continues as to serve as allied WUDPAC faculty and consults and teaches from her home in Santa Fe, NM.
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