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Minah Song, Paper Conservator, joined CCAHA in 2005. She has B.A in sociology from Ehwa Woman’s university and a M.A in East Asian Art History from the Academy of Korean Studies in Korea. She holds a M.A in Conservation from Camberwell College of Arts, University of Arts London and completed internships at the Hammersmith & Fulham Archives, London, Tate Britain London, Library of Congress, Washington, DC, and a fellowship at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC. She was an Andrew W. Mellon fellow at Worcester Art Museum, MA. In 2006 she was selected for the international course on “Conservation of Japanese Paper”, organized by ICCROM and National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Tokyo.

Ms. Song is responsible for the conservation treatment of works of art on paper, maps, manuscripts and parchments. Among numerous projects she treated a pastel by Mary Cassatt, prints by Picasso, Matisse, Blake, Warhol, a drawing by Modigliani, a drawing of U.S Capital by T.U. Walter, and Asian objects such as Chinese and Japanese scrolls and prints, pith paintings, Korean maps.

Her research interests include history and scientific analysis of Asian paper and pigments. Some of the results of her research have been presented and published, “Permanence, Durability and Unique Properties of Hanji”, co-authored with Jesse Munn (AIC Book and Paper Anuual, 2005), “Korean Paper; Hanji Its History and Unique Properties” (2006) at Rosenbach Museum & Library, and “Conservation of a Group of Early 19th Century Chinese Export Flora Paintings” (AIC annual meeting, 2007), “The History and Characteristics of Korean Books and Bookbinding” ( Journal of the Institute of Conservation, 2009 U.K).