About me
Clara Rojas-Sebesta is the Ellsworth Kelly Conservator of Works on Paper at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Clara has published and presented on the theoretical and practical framework of the Museum’s Replication Committee and researched the materials and practices of June Leaf and Ruth Asawa, among others. She has conducted artist interviews for the Artist Documentation Program (ADP), with June Leaf, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Gamaliel Rodrigues and Rogelio Baez Vega and Lotus Kang. She is a member of the Whitney’s Latinx Art, Artists and Audiences Working Group (LAAAWG). She graduated from The Conservation Center of the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU with a specialization in conservation of works on paper and holds an MA in Art History from Rutgers University and a BA in Art History from Cornell University.
