Lesley A. Day
Shelburne Museum Samuel H. Kress Foundation Conservation Fellow
Shelburne, VT
Lesley Day is a recent graduate of the UCLA/Getty Program for the Conservation of Archaeological and Ethnographic materials. Lesley began her conservation training as a pre-program intern in the Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from 2009-2013. Lesley's graduate conservation internships have included working in the conservation lab at the Institute for the Study of Aegean Prehistory- East Crete, the Hibulb Cultural Center in Tulalip, Washington, and the American Museum of Natural History, New York. Her master's thesis research involved the characterization of the moiré pattern found on tortoiseshell materials, and studied light-induced alterations to the pattern and shell through accelerated light aging. Lesley is currently a Samuel H. Kress Conservation Fellow at the Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vermont.