Guest Lecturers

Gary Albright

Guest Lecturer, Photo Conservation
garyealbright@gmail.com

Gary Albright has taught photo conservation as a guest lecturer in our department since 2003. He has been a photograph conservator for over 35 years and graduated from The Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation. From 1999-2003,  he was conservator at the George Eastman House, Rochester, NY, one of the premier collections of photography in the world.  He was also senior paper and photograph conservator at the Northeast Document Conservation Center,  Andover, MA. 

Gary's lectures and workshops focus on the identification and preservation of photographic prints, negatives, cased objects and color images; emergency salvage of wet photographs; surface cleaning, mending, and flattening of paper and photographic materials; and conservation treatment possibilities. His teaching emphasizes the practical application of conservation principles to institutions or collections with limited budgets.

Anne Hillam

Guest Lecturer, Book Conservation
ahillam@gmail.com

Fran Ritchie, Class of 2013

Guest Lecturer, Leather, Hide, and Natural Science Conservation

Fran Ritchie is an Objects Conservator at the National Park Service's Harpers Ferry Center, focusing on treatment of organic materials and composite objects from park sites throughout the United States. Fran has a particular interest and specialty in natural science materials and dioramas are her favorite artform. 

Fran joined the NPS team in 2018 after working several years on the taxidermy and Native American collections at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City. Prior to AMNH she was a Mellon Fellow at National Museum of the American Indian, spending her third year at the Harvard Peabody Museum. She was a graduate intern at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, performed private work on taxidermy collections in museums across Alaska, and was a technician at Biltmore Estate.

Fran graduated from the Buffalo program in 2013 and also holds an MA in Museum Anthropology from Columbia University. She earned her BA from the University of Delaware in Art Conservation and Anthropology, with a minor in American Material Culture Studies. She has taught courses on conservation strategies for natural science materials at the New York University Institute of Fine Arts. She also served as an elected official for both the American Institute for Conservation (AIC) and the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections, and is a Professional Associate of AIC.