Crystal Maitland

Biography

Crystal Maitland (she/her) has a Master of Art Conservation (Paper) as well as a B.Sc. (Hons) in Chemistry from Queen’s University. Prior to joining Winterthur in the summer of 2024, Crystal was the Sr. Paper Conservator in the paper laboratory of the Canadian Conservation Institute and Paper Conservator at the Sheridan Libraries and Museums of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. As a part of her conservation studies, she completed internships at Library and Archives Canada, the City of Vancouver Archives, the Vancouver Art Gallery, and the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. Crystal also completed postgraduate internships and fellowships at the Queen’s University Archives and the Sheridan Libraries. While still a chemistry student, she worked for a summer with Dr. Alison Murray’s conservation science research group at Queen’s University, contributing to a project in which she analyzed the effects of surface cleaning on acrylic gessoes and paints.

Crystal’s ongoing research interests include stain reduction techniques for art on paper, innovations in aqueous treatments for paper objects, as well as exploring treatment possibilities for iron- and copper-containing media on paper.