About me
Ellen Pearlstein is a founding faculty member and Professor Emerita in the graduate UCLA/Getty Conservation Program, where she incorporated Indigenous instruction into the understanding and care of California basketry and featherwork. Her publications include the book Conservation of Featherwork from Central and South America, articles about feather regalia, coloration, light aging, Peruvian qeros and their colorants, Indigenous basketry materials, and conservation pedagogy. Her book devoted to Indigenous collections conservation and care is in press in the Getty Readings in Conservation series. She is a core contributor to the School for Advanced Research Guidelines for Collaboration. She guest lectures globally. Ellen is the Director of the Andrew W. Mellon Opportunity for Diversity in Conservation and PI for the NEH Tribal Collections Care grant. She is a Keck Prize awardee, and a 2022 recipient of a Rome Prize for the study of collaborative conservation approaches to Americas’ collections in European museums.
