Jennifer Sterne Painting Conservation is located just west of Nashville, TN, providing conservation services for private clients, museums and historical collections, insurance and home restoration companies. I adhere to the American Institute of Conservation (AIC) code of ethics.
Contact me at: 267-424-9925 or msnifer@yahoo.com
From working for a fashion designer as a dyer, learning how to mix pigments and hand-dye fabrics, to studying studio art at Temple University, to completing a degree in art history and classical studies at the University of Rhode Island, I had a good foundation for conservation. At the university, I had the opportunity for an internship in the conservation department at the RISD Museum of Art in Providence. I was hired by two private conservators to help them meet deadlines on projects and became interested in pursuing conservation as a career.
I moved to New Orleans upon graduation and immediately started doing restoration work at the New Orleans Conservation Guild. There I learned gilding and frame restoration and was exposed to the incredible wealth of art in that city.
I eventually transitioned into the painting department and learned painting conservation. I was displaced by Hurricane Katrina and came back to my home state of Pennsylvania to live and work in Philadelphia for the next four years.
In Philadelphia, I worked at Belmont Hills Conservation Studio, a consortium of conservators sharing space and projects. As a subcontractor, I worked on projects for each of the conservators there in the fields of painting, paper, furniture, and objects conservation.
I moved to Nashville in 2010 and currently work on paintings, gilded frames and various painted and gilded objects. My studio is located in Pegram.
Comments or questions are welcome.
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