About me
Kristal Hale is Conservator of Textiles at the Conservation Center of Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). She holds an MA in art conservation with a textile specialization from the Bern University of Applied Sciences in collaboration with the Abegg-Stiftung, Switzerland. Kristal was an Andrew W. Mellon Conservation Fellow at The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. As someone who is engaged in the intersection of heritage preservation and contemporary museum practices, Kristal is a board member of Tracing Patterns Foundation, Berkeley, CA, working to support conservation education in Indonesia and greater Southeast Asia.
