About me
Jacquelyn Peterson-Grace (she/her) is the associate conservator of textiles at The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. She holds a BSc in conservation studies from Marist College and an MSc from the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation with concentrations in textile and preventive conservation. As a graduate student, she completed internships at the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Peebles Island Resource Center. Her pre-program internship sites included the textile conservation labs at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, and work with the modern tapestry collection of Kykuit. She has worked closely with collections care staff at the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Cambodia to teach textile and preventive conservation practices and address textile preservation needs. Presently she serves as the Textile Specialty Group Wiki co-coordinator and is the Publications Chair for the Virginia Conservation Association.
