Diane Tafilowski's Bio (continued)
Ms. Tafilowski spent the summer of 1995 as an intern in photograph conservation at José Orraca's studio in Kent, Connecticut treating photographs. In particular, she learned flattening techniques which she has continued to refine and perfect and now uses on a daily basis. Ms. Tafilowski spent the summer of 1996 as an intern at the Metropolitan Museum of Art studying autochromes. Her third year internship was at the Northeast Document Conservation Center in Andover, Massachusetts where she performed numerous treatments on works of art on paper and photographs.
Ms. Tafilowski received an MA and Certificate of Advanced Study in art conservation from Buffalo State College in 1997. With Paul Messier, Valerie Baas and Lauren Varga, she is the co-author of Optical Brightening Agents in Photographic Paper, Journal of the American Institute for Conservation, 44:1, 2005. For the past 11 years, she has been working happily and steadily as the studio expands around her.