What's your specialization or current job position?

Antiquities Conservator, Getty Villa Museum

What is your favorite place/museum/restaurant in LA?

The Huntington and Quality Seafood at the Redondo Beach Pier

Any hobbies or things you like to do in your free time?

Play tennis!

What's your specialization or current job position?

I'm trained as an objects conservator and I specialize in modern and contemporary art at the Getty Conservation Institute

What is your favorite place/museum/restaurant in LA?

The Museum of Neon Art in Glendale, which has great programming featuring historic LA signs and contemporary light-based art, plus dangerously addictive classes that teach you how to bend glass over fire

Any hobbies or things you like to do in your free time?

Cooking and beaching

The Huntington

Pre-Program

What's your specialization or current job position?

I am a pre-program conservation technician. I have previously worked with paper, wall paintings, and objects. There's a unique challenge to each specialty, it's hard to choose which one I love the most!

What is your favorite place/museum/restaurant in LA?

My favorite shabu-shabu place, Shabuya

Any hobbies or things you like to do in your free time?

Ceramics, crochet, painting, thrifting, hanging out with my cat & dog!

Fine Arts Conservation

What's your specialization or current job position?

Associate Objects Conservator, Fine Arts Conservation, LLC.

What is your favorite place/museum/restaurant in LA?

Huntington Gardens/ Mizlala

Any hobbies or things you like to do in your free time?

 Surfing, hiking and making ceramics

LA Conservators

What's your specialization or current job position?

I am a furniture and object conservator in private practice. I specialize in pre-industrial and handmade furniture, and especially in veneered and marquetry surfaces and giltwood objects.

What is your favorite place/museum/restaurant in LA?

Norton Simon Museum, Tire Shop Taqueria.

Any hobbies or things you like to do in your free time?

Drawing, rock climbing, backpacking.  

Getty Conservation Institute

What's your specialization or current job position?

Associate Project Specialist for GCI working on the African American Historic Places, Los Angeles project

What is your favorite place/museum/restaurant in LA?

Watts Coffee House

Any hobbies or things you like to do in your free time? 

Hike, garden, rock climb

UCLA/Getty Program in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage

What's your specialization or current job position?

Conservation professor at UCLA/Getty

What is your favorite place/museum/restaurant in LA?

Autry Museum/ La Puglia Restaurant

 Any hobbies or things you like to do in your free time?

 movies, cooking, baking, reading

What's your specialization or current job position?

Associate Paintings Conservator at LACMA

What is your favorite place/museum/restaurant in LA?

Any beach; LACMA of course (or Hammer Museum if I need to be neutral!). Too hard to pick just one restaurant! I love Asian food, tacos, and Italian. For easy takeout: Quarter Sheets pizza and Ceci's Gastronomia for Ligurian food

Any hobbies or things you like to do in your free time?

Biking to the ocean is my favorite! Also love hiking, camping, swimming, exploring new places with friends, reading.

What's your specialization or current job position?

LACMA Damascus Room Conservation Technician

What is your favorite place/museum/restaurant in LA?

Will Rogers Beach, JANM, I love all food, but my favorite area is Little Tokyo

Any hobbies or things you like to do in your free time?

Anything Outside! Hiking, picnicking, road trips, pet lots of doggos, Dodgers Games, hang with friends, take fun classes like stain glass or glass blowing