Beauty & Beneficencia: Fine Art Conservation

Elisabeth Mention will introduce the field of fine art conservation generally, including ethical and professional issues as illustrated  through her step-by-step process of conserving one very severely damaged painting.

Elisabeth graduated in Fine Arts from the University of California Berkeley and spent 32 years as a Paintings Conservator at the J.  Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. With visiting positions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, The Yale  University Art Museum, and the Seattle Museum of Art, her experience in restoring Old Master paintings was the foundation of  her work on restoring Orazio Gentileschi’s “Mother and Child”, mutilated during the Romanian revolution.

This presentation will detail the process of bringing this masterpiece back to life.

Wednesday, March 20, 4 – 5:30 p.m.

Casa de Cultura, Mesones 71, SMA

Beneficiaries via the UUFSMA Social Justice Foundation: Caminos de Agua, Casita Linda, CEDESA, Centro Infantil de Los Ángeles, EEESMA, Fundación de Apoyo Infantil, Jóvenes Adelantes, Libros Para Todos, Mujeres en Cambio, Niños con Autismo; Patronato Pro Niños

Tickets available in advance for $300 pesos @CDR, Correo 22, via Paola Turandot, M-F,

9 – 5. Cash only. At the door, starting at 3:30, as space allows, for $350 pesos.

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