About me
Christy graduated Magna Cum Laude, Honors with Distinction from the University of Pennsylvania in 2019 with a B.A. in the History of Art and a minor in Material Science and Engineering. Through navigating her identity as a 1.5 generation Chinese American from Hong Kong, she developed a fascination for the many ways both tangible and intangible cultural heritage traversed and transformed across countries and borders. Christy was introduced to collections care and art conservation through her work-study job at the Architectural Archives and shadowing opportunity at the Penn Museum in 2018. After graduation, she fell in love with conservation while interning for the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where she treated paintings and frames including an 18th-century oil painting painted after Canaletto. Christy returned to the Penn Museum as a conservation and gallery maintenance technician, focusing on archeological and preventive conservation. She treated a variety of objects including salty ceramics, copper alloy fragments with bronze disease, Hopi Kachinas, and ancient Egyptian papyri pages from the Book of the Dead. Her favorite projects outside of treatment involved photogrammetry and pXRF analysis. Aside from conservation, Christy, a cancer survivor herself, is passionate about spreading adolescent and young adult cancer awareness and does so through volunteering for the Kids & Art Foundation.
