ASHLEY L. STANFORD ◆
Ashley is a current Graduate Fellow in the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation (WUDPAC), class of 2024, majoring in photograph conservation and minoring in paper. She is currently completing her third-year internship experiences 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 torn panorama, to a water-damaged gelatin silver print by Kiki Smith, from albumen 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 Ahrweiler, Germany, water-damaged photographs with Gawain Weaver Art Conservation, and fire-damaged photographs as part of her graduate studies 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.
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