Mina Porell
Biography
Originally from Bulgaria, Mina Porell is a 2018 graduate of the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation. Prior to joining the conservation department at Winterthur in 2024, she was the Assistant Conservator of Paintings at the Barnes Foundation, where she studied and treated paintings by Henri Rousseau and participated in the international technical research project on Amedeo Modigliani. As a postgraduate fellow, Mina studied, analyzed, and treated eighteenth-century American paintings at the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, focusing on the works of William Williams. She also completed internships at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Stichting Restauratie Atelier Limburg (SRAL), the Atlanta Art Conservation Center, and the National Gallery for Foreign Art in her native Sofia, Bulgaria. In addition to her Master of Science in Art Conservation, Mina holds a Master of Arts in Art History from the University of Georgia, Athens, GA, and a Bachelor of Art in Art from Oglethorpe University, Atlanta, GA.
