ABOUT ME

︎ stanford@udel.edu
Ashley recent graduate from the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation (WUDPAC), class of 2024, with a specialization in photograph conservation and minor in paper.  She is currently the Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Photography Conservation at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). 

She is completed her third-year internship placements at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and The Better Image in New York City. Throughout her second year of graduate studies, Ashley has been active in a range of treatments, from mending a panorama split in three pieces, to a water-damaged gelatin silver print by Kiki Smith, from albumen prints to inkjet prints. She has a great interest in historic photographic processes, teaching, and disaster response. She has completed workshops creating tintypes at the Houston Center for Photography and salted paper prints with Scully & Osterman Studios. She spent three summers as a Photography Teaching Assistant and Residential Advisor at the Center for Creative Youth at Wesleyan University where she assisted in darkroom photography lessons for high school students. She has also worked with flood-damaged objects in Miami, Florida and Ahweiler, Germany, water-damaged photographs with Gawain Weaver Art Conservation, and fire-damaged photographs as part of her training at WUDPAC.  

Prior to graduate studies, Ashley completed the bulk of her pre-program internship experiences at the Menil Drawing Institute, in her hometown of Houston, Texas. She held additional internship positions at other institutions in Houston including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the Rothko Chapel.

As a photographer herself, she has always been drawn to the many ways photography is able to connect people. As a conservator, she hopes to help preserve these memories and stories as told through photographs.

This portfolio highlights her third year placements in addition to many of her projects from her first and second year at WUDPAC.

Funding for her education was generously provided by the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation (WUDPAC), The Better Image, the Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Gawain Weaver Art Conservation, the WUDPAC Professional Development Fund, the Society of Winterthur Fellows,  the Edward F. & Elizabeth Goodman Rosenberg Award, and the Samuel H. Kress Grant.


Education


University of Delaware - College of Arts & Sciences
Degree: Master of Science, Art Conservation

University of Texas at Austin - College of Arts & Sciences
Degree: Bachelor of Arts, Art History



Wilmington, DE
projected Aug 2024

Austin, TX
May 2015


Conservation Experience


Museum of Modern Art
Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Photography Conservation
Conservation Graduate Intern

The Better Image
Conservation Graduate Intern

Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Graduate Intern

Gawain Weaver Art Conservation
Graduate Intern

Ahr Valley Recovery Mission
Conservation Volunteer 

The Menil Drawing Institute
Contract Conservation Technician
Pre-program Intern

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Conservation Intern

Whitten & Proctor
Pre-Program Volunteer

Vizcaya Museum & Gardens
Conservation Intern

Rothko Chapel
Archives Intern

Landsmarks, UT Austin
Preservation Intern



New York, New York
Sep 2024 - Present
Sep 2023 - Aug 2024

New York, New York
Sep 2023 - Present

Los Angeles, CA
Summer 2023

Lagunitas, CA
Summer 2022

Ahrweiler, Germany
May 2022

Houston, TX
Nov 2019 - June 2021
Dec 2018 - March 2020

Houston, TX
Nov 2017 - June 2018

Houston, TX
Nov 2017

Miami, FL
Sep 2017 - Oct 2017

Houston, TX
Jan 2017 - June 2017

Austin, TX
Aug 2016 - May 2017

 
Images on home page by Evan Krape

ASHLEY L. STANFORD

Recent graduate from the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation (WUDPAC), class of 2024, specializing in the conservation of photographic materials. Porfolio of graduate school projects.   MORE INFO