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Only those students who receive a formal letter of invitation from the Director of the Art Conservation Program to attend interviews will be required to present portfolios of conservation and studio work at the interview. Instructions for submission of the portfolios will be included.
The conservation portfolio will be used by the Admissions Committee to evaluate the applicant's level of preparation for conservation work. At the interview the applicant will give a 20-minute PowerPoint or Prezi presentation of their conservation work.
For the Conservation Portfolio, please submit three reports in PDF format that will help demonstrate the depth and/or breadth of your experience and your professionalism. For each file sent there is a size limit of 150GB. There is not a specified page limit and images can be included, however longer reports may not be able to receive in-depth review.
- One must be a conservation treatment report (including an object description, treatment proposal, and treatment report) or a conservation project report (see listing below) of a project that you will include in your interview presentation.
- The other two can come from any of the categories below and may be from the same category. Select these reports to help illustrate parts of your experience you want to emphasize with the admission committee. Please note that all categories will be given equal weight whether done on-site or remotely. For all reports, where applicable please note collaborators and/or supervisors
- Conservation treatment report
- Conservation project report (storage project, environmental analysis, pest monitoring and eradication, survey)
- Report on historical and/or social context research
- Scientific analysis report
- Report on remote internship project
- Comprehensive annotated bibliography
- Summary of outreach activities
- Publication or poster (a sole author or major contributor)
The studio portfolio will be used by the Admissions Committee to judge the craftsmanship, artistic sensitivity, and manual dexterity of invited applicants. For the Art Conservation Studio Art Portfolio, please submit:
- Nine full-page pdfs of images of examples of your studio art work due three working days in advance of your interview. The contents of the admission portfolio must consist of the following:
- 1 representational drawing of the human figure or a still-life subject drawn in perspective using any of the following: charcoal, crayon, pastel, pen and ink, brushed ink, silverpoint, or pencil.
- 1 free-hand representational painting using any of the following: oil, acrylic polymer, egg tempera, casein, or watercolor.
- 1 print, intaglio, woodcut, lithograph, serigraph, or a black-and-white photograph that you have printed.
- 1 textile object, ceramic, metal, stone, or wooden hand-made object, representational if possible.
- A copy, reproduction, or reconstruction of an original art work or artifact by a known artist or maker plus provide an image of the original.
- 4 examples of the artwork or reconstructions that you feel best display your competence in studio skills.
For each page, please list:
- Title (if any), medium and support (include materials and techniques), year created, and size.
- A brief description of the course associated with the object's creation or if it was independent work.
