U.S. Technical Team - Wendy Claire Jessup
For the past twenty-five years, Wendy Jessup has pioneered the discipline of preventive conservation with particular emphasis on the museum environment and collections care improvements for collections housed within existing historic buildings as well as in new museum and library construction.
Ms. Jessup is highly experienced in identifying vulnerabilities and risks to collections and in setting objectives for risk reduction and preventive conservation. She has consulted to a large number of museums and archives within the United States as well as internationally. Wendy Jessup has also provided training and instruction to conservators nationally and internationally through numerous conservation institutions, including The Getty Conservation Institute.
Wendy Jessup and Associates, Inc.
Vision:
Art and artifacts are the physical embodiment of the hopes, dreams, joys, fears, grief, aspirations and accomplishments of the human community. These artifacts tell us about our similarities and differences… where we have come from… where we are going… and how we change and can shape our world. Art and artifacts have the power to teach, inspire, enlighten and evoke emotion. Without their protection and preservation, we will lose our inheritance and deny our children and all who follow glimpses of our collective past and the delight which can come from experiencing creative human expression.
About the firm:
Wendy Jessup and Associates, Inc. (WJ&A) is a woman-owned small business that provides preventive conservation and collections management consulting and planning services to museums and other stewards of cultural and historic property. Since 1987, our practice has served the museum community through the completion of over 40 Conservation Assessment Program (CAP) collections assessments, numerous long-range conservation plans for small to medium sized museums, and more than 15 Collections Management Plans for United States National Park Service museums.
Most of our clients have collections housed in historic structures and our recommendations must be tailored to meet the needs of both the collections and building. We maintain strategic partnerships with highly experienced preservation engineers and architects who are leaders in the historic preservation field as well as with leaders in the museum design community.
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