Technicians Staff: Jilliann Wilcox
Senior Conservation Assistant
Jilliann Wilcox is a Senior Conservation Assistant. Prior to joining the CCAHA staff Ms. Herrick volunteered in the Bang Chang Lab of the University of Pennsylvania reconstructing pots from shards from South East Asia and Volunteering in the North American Collection doing Collection Management, photography and Data Inventory. She received her Certificate in the Fine Arts from the Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts. She also attended workshops and training programs in conservation at The University of Delaware as well as graduate courses at The University of Pennsylvania in Collection Management – leading to an Internship at the Athenaeum in Philadelphia.
On staff at CCAHA since 1987, Ms. Wilcox has worked closely with the CCAHA conservators and independently on conservation treatments of works on paper: flat, bound and 3-D, archival and fine art collections, parchment and a variety of photographic materials for numerous private individuals and collecting institutions including The Barnes foundation, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, and The Free Library of Philadelphia.
Ms. Wilcox has worked off site (in-situ) for on-going museum and institutional projects. With a great interest in early photos, she has worked with private photo conservators to gain additional experience; she has also taken the opportunity to work briefly in Montefiascone, Italy, in the Library of Seminario Barbarigoto to stabilize their flat and bound materials.
Email Jilliann at jwilcox@ccaha.org