About me
Dean Yoder is the Lapis Senior Conservator of Paintings and Head of Paintings Conservation at the Cleveland Museum of Art. He is responsible for managing the paintings lab and overseeing the conservation and preservation of the Western paintings collection. Dean joined the CMA as conservator of paintings in 2009 after operating his own conservation lab in Cleveland for 24 years. Dean received a BA in painting from Cleveland State University in 1980 then, in the same year, began his early training in gilding, frame restoration, and paintings conservation at the Bonfoey Company in Cleveland. In 1985, he established Yoder Conservation. In 1987 and 1988, while operating his private lab in Cleveland, he worked as a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow in paintings conservation at the Intermuseum Conservation Association (ICA) in Oberlin, Ohio. For a three-month period, ending in March 2012, Dean worked as guest conservator at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles conserving the CMA’s Christ with Joseph of Arimathea b
