AIC's 53rd Annual Meeting

Ella Andrews is the Assistant Conservator at Vizcaya Museum and Gardens in Miami, Florida. She received an M.S. in Conservation for Archaeology and Museums and an M.A. in Principles of Conservation from University College London subsequent to a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Previously, she was the Andrew W. Mellon Advanced Fellow of Objects Conservation at The Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University. She has held conservation positions at The Fitzwilliam Museum, Archaeology South-East, UCL Institute of Archaeology, and the Schiele Museum of Natural History. She has worked as a conservator on archaeological projects in the United States, United Kingdom, Israel/Palestine, Greece, and is currently a member of Middle Kingdom Theban Project in the Theban Necropolis, Egypt. Her research interests include polychrome surfaces, the use of organic nanoparticles in conservation, and the identification of pigments through multistep analysis. She is the current Professional Education and Training Co-Chair and the Miami Regional Liaison for AIC’s Emerging Conservation Professionals Network.