2 November 2009 | Conservation
The Chronicle of Higher Education profiles conservator Joyce Hill Stoner:
An art conservator who set up North America’s first doctoral program in preservation studies, at the University of Delaware, has been named to a new chair in material culture, the study of societies’ artifacts … In 1990, Ms. Stoner set up North America’s first doctoral program in preservation studies at Delaware, even before she had completed her own Ph.D. (There are now two others, at New York University and the State University of New York College at Buffalo.) … With a colleague, she is editing a 700-page volume, Conservation of Easel Paintings, due out in 2011 … Ms. Stoner hopes she will reach more people by speaking than she can by treating paintings one by one. Her goal? “To stop people from throwing out their torn paintings. And if I can get to the public and say ‘Do not clean your paintings with Ajax,’ I’ll have done well.”