Devon Blankenbaker
Devon is a Mellon LACE fellow and earned a BA in art history from the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in addition to attending the Brooks Institute to study photography. Before starting his graduate studies, he was an assistant exhibition coordinator and a conservation intern at the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia. While at the University of Virginia, Devon was also both a collections management and exhibition intern at the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection which features one of the best indigenous Australian art collections in the world. This past summer, he was an intern in book conservation at Emory University's Woodruff Library in Atlanta and has been active in the department's Equity & Inclusion Committee.