Marilen Pool is the Senior Project Conservator of this program

March 6, 2020
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The Arizona State Museum was awarded this grant  from the  Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) in 2017 with two years funding of $231,000 beginning in 2019.  The Principal Investigator on this grant is Dr. Nancy Odegaard and Marilen Pool as the Senior Project Conservator will be financially supported by this grant for 2 years.

The Arizona State Museum will continue its ongoing work to stabilize its basketry collections which represent its highest institutional conservation priority. The museum's conservators and curatorial staff will work with a part-time specialist conservator, a recent conservation graduate, and a tribal pre-program intern to provide conservation treatment of 150 ethnological and archaeological cradleboards and 50 basketry hats from tribes of the American Southwest and Northern Mexico. The treatment project is the final step in a comprehensive conservation program for the 35,000-item basketry collection which includes a new storage vault, object stabilization, and preventive conservation for a recently opened interpretive gallery. A training component in the treatment project will address the museum's commitment to education and outreach through the regular and ongoing inclusion of conservation program interns and University of Arizona students of diverse disciplines.

For more information on this award: https://www.imls.gov/grants/awarded-grants?field_project_type=All&field_institution=Arizona+State+Museum&field_city=&field_state=269&field_recipient_type=All&search_api_views_fulltext=&search_api_log_number=&field_fiscal_year_text=&sort_by=field_fiscal_year_text

 

 

Marilen Pool is a 4th year PhD student in the Arid Lands Resource Sciences program, as well as a Curatorial/Museum Specialist in the Arizona State Museum. Her academic background includes;

  • A Masters of Arts degree in Museum Studies /Anthropology/ Business Administration from Oregon State University
  • An Advanced Diploma in Art Conservation Techniques from Sir Sanford Fleming College,

 

Her dissertation research will focus on Biology and cultural use of insect exudates in the Southwest, which is why she has chosen Entomology as her Minor.