Kathy Z. Gillis
Kathy Z. Gillis
Elizabeth Terry Seaks Senior Furniture Conservator
Affiliated Assistant Professor
Affiliated Assistant Professor
Biography
Kathy Z. Gillis (she/her) graduated from the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation (WUDPAC) in 1993. Kathy has worked with the furniture collections at Colonial Williamsburg, The J. Paul Getty Museum, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and served as the Head of Conservation at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. Her research includes the European influences on American Furniture, Art Nouveau, Chinese and Indian export furniture, and John Henry Belter. Kathy was the World Monuments Fund Conservator in Residence for the fall 2018 semester of the CRAFT program in Beijing, China, co-sponsored by the Palace Museum and Tsinghua University. Kathy will join the Winterthur Museum staff on March 16, 2020.
