Conservation Perspectives: Assessing Condition and Change in Prints with Harriet Stratis, PCNY, 2021

Print Club of New York (PCNY) is delighted to present video-recording of PCNY online event - Conservation Perspectives: Assessing Condition and Change in Prints with Harriet Stratis on March 23, 2021.
Please join technical art historian and paper conservator Harriet Stratis for an informative discussion on the visual changes that prints can undergo after leaving the printmaker’s studio. Are these changes a result of inherent vice or external factors that instigate change? Together you will explore the effects of light exposure, environmental factors that initiate change, and the results of poor handling and storage conditions.
Based in Chicago and New York, Harriet Stratis brings over three decades of experience to her practice in paper conservation and technical art history. She has conserved the artworks of Old Masters from the 16th to the 18th century, as well as Modern Masters that include Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt, Claude Monet, Paul Gauguin, and Vincent Van Gogh, to name a few. With a Certificate in Conservation and MA in Art History from New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts, she brings a wealth of art historical knowledge to her examination and treatment of prints and drawings. Before turning to private practice, Ms. Stratis was the head of paper conservation, and then senior research conservator at the Art Institute of Chicago. Most recently she was welcomed at the Getty as a visiting museum scholar, and at her alma mater as the Praska Distinguished Visiting Professor.