Conservation Center - for Art and Historic Artifacts

CCAHA specializes in the treatment of art and historic artifacts on paper and provides preservation education, training, and consultation. Established in 1977, CCAHA is the largest nonprofit regional conservation lab in the country.


Conservators Staff: Corine Norman McHugh

Corine Norman McHugh

Conservator

Corine Norman McHugh, Paper Conservator, earned her M.S. in Paper Conservation from University of Delaware Winterthur Museum Art Conservation Program. She has a BA from Clark University in Worcester, MA and spent a spring semester at the School of International Training in Ghana, Africa where she researched and materials and techniques of Northern Ghanaian wall paintings.

Ms. McHugh recently joined the CCAHA staff after a year as the Samuel H. Kress Fellow in Paper Conservation with the Philadelphia Museum of Art and a fall semester as the Andrew W. Mellon intern with the Barnes Foundation. From 2005-2007, Ms. McHugh worked at CCAHA first as a graduate intern and then as the National Endowment for the Arts Fellow in Paper Conservation. As a fellow at CCAHA, McHugh treated Andy Warhol Mao screen prints, Civil War era albumen photographs, Audubon’s Birds of America prints, and an early 18th century Japanese scroll by Tsunenobu Kanou. She has co-written collections surveys for cultural institutions in the Philadelphia region and in Biloxi, MS.

Ms. McHugh is a member of AIC.

Email Corine at cmchugh@ccaha.org