Joy Gardiner
Charles F. Hummel Director of Conservation
Textile Conservator and Affiliated Assistant Professor
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716
Biography
Joy Gardiner has been a “Textilian” for most of her life,
studying weaving and textile design and receiving her BFA from Moore College of
Art in Philadelphia in 1977. She
remained in Philadelphia and worked in various guises as a free-lance artist
before pursuing a career in conservation. In 1988, she received her M.S. in Art
Conservation from the Winterthur/University of Delaware Art Conservation
Program (WUDPAC), majoring in textile conservation. Gardiner had a nine-month
NEA post-graduate Master Apprenticeship in Costume and Textile Conservation at
the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Prior to returning to Winterthur in 1990,
she was a conservator in private practice in the Delaware Valley area.
Gardiner joined the staff at the Winterthur Museum as an assistant textile
conservator and to teach in WUDPAC. Gardiner is an affiliated assistant professor in WUDPAC
teaching textile conservation and has served in recent years as the co-chair of
the admissions committee. With Winterthur, she subsequently held the positions
of associate conservator, conservator, head of textile conservation, assistant
director of conservation, interim director of conservation and since April 2016
has been the Charles F. Hummel Director of Conservation.
She has lectured and published on a variety of Textile
Conservation topics. Recent examples
include: “Unwelcome Zephyrs: Air Circulation and Fabric on Display” (with
Joelle Wickens), 10th NATCC preprints and “To Avoid Additional
Piercings: The Mounting of a 1795 Sampler with Original Paper Backing”, Textile
Specialty Group of AIC Postprints.
A
professional associate of the American Institute for Conservation of
Historic and Artistic Works (AIC), she served on
the board of the Textile Specialty Group of the AIC as treasurer (1993-1994),
vice-chair (1998-1999), chair (1999-2000), and in 2017
received The Textile Specialty Group Award. From 2002 to 2017, Gardiner was on the Steering
Committee/Board of the North American Textile Conservation Conference and was
involved in the planning and running of biennial meetings held in the US,
Canada, and Mexico attended by an international audience of textile
conservators.
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