Elections

Election of WCG Officers and Directors takes place every May at the annual business meeting according to the requirements and schedule in WCG Bylaws Article VI.

Officers and Directors serve for two years, with the possibility of renewal for a second two-year term for Officers or a second one-year term for Directors. Duties and term limits of the Officers and Directors are described in WCG Bylaws Article V.

May 2010 Election: Preliminary slate and final call for nominations

At the May 2010 WCG meeting, the membership will elect new officers and directors to the board. The following positions will be open: Membership Secretary and four Director positions. Below is the preliminary slate of candidates for these positions. Further nominations will be accepted until March 31, 2010.

To nominate yourself or another WCG member for any of these positions, please contact a member of the Nominating Committee directly or send a message to wcg@washingtonconservationguild.org. Nominees must be members of WCG and must be willing to serve.

Now is your chance to step forward and get involved with WCG!

Thank you,
WCG Nominating Committee
Claire Peachey, Eileen Blankenbaker, Cary Maguire, and Andrew Robb

Membership Secretary

Joanne Klaar Walker (incumbent) is a graduate of the Conservation Center of the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. She was the William R. Leisher Fellow in Modern and Contemporary Painting Conservation at the National Gallery of Art, and has held internships and fellowships in painting conservation at the Scottish National Galleries of Art, Villa La Pietra, Worcester Art Museum, and the Balboa Art Conservation Center. She has been WCG’s Membership Secretary for the past two years, and prior to that, was WCG’s Intern Coordinator. She is currently in private practice in Maryland.

Directors
Genevieve Bieniosek is currently a pre-program conservation intern at the Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute. She previously interned with the Freer & Sackler Galleries and the Smithsonian Libraries Preservation Services Department, and has worked in the University of Maryland Libraries Preservation Department. Genevieve is also active at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center in Silver Spring, Maryland. She volunteered for the 2008 WCG Angels Project and has served as WCG Refreshments Chair since joining the Guild in 2007.
Patricia Favero (incumbent) received her MA from Buffalo State College, with a specialty in Paintings Conservation, in 2002, and has been a Fellow in Conservation at The Phillips Collection since 2004. She has served as a Director on the WCG board for the past two years, and prior to that, was WCG's Membership Secretary.
Helen Ingalls, SAAM's Objects conservator since 1988, began her training at Mario's Conservation studio. She acquired her formal training at the Cooperstown/Buffalo Graduate Program in Art Conservation. After internships at Colonial Williamsburg and the Walters Art Museum, and a Mellon Fellowship at the National Gallery of Art, she worked for two years at the American Museum of Natural History, New York, on Pre-Columbian archaeological metals and ceramics. Her areas of specialization at American Art have included folk art, outdoor sculpture, Puerto Rican bultos figures, bronze, and marble sculpture. Her work on the Renwick Gallery collection has included all conservation-related aspects of an active loan, display, and acquisition program for contemporary craft. A member of Washington Conservation Guild since 1988, she has served on the board and the Food Committee, chaired the Nominating Committee, and served on the Editorial Board for the first publication of Conservation Resources for Art and Antiques, editing the chapter on Outdoor Sculpture for that publication.
Steven Pickman is an objects conservator in private practice within the Washington, DC area, having formed his own firm during the summer of 2009. He graduated from Brandeis University in 2001 with a BA in Anthropology (specializing in Archaeology) and was a recipient in 2008 of a Master of Arts degree from the UCLA/Getty Conservation program in Conservation of Archaeological and Ethnographic Materials. He has had internship experiences at a broad range of institutions, including the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the South Street Seaport Museum. More recently, he has become active in promoting emerging conservation professionals within the field.

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