The Denison University Gallery concludes its "Year of the Museum" lecture series, with an address by Denison alumna Jill Sterrett '82, director of collections and conservation at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The lecture series is designed to address different aspects of museum collections. Sterrett will present "Piecing Together the Past: The Art and Science of Conservation" at 5 p.m. Wednesday (April 12) in Burke Hall (241 W. College St.). The lecture is free and open to the public.

Sterrett graduated from Denison in 1982 with a double major in art history and chemistry, earning her master of arts degree in conservation from the Cooperstown Graduate Program in 1986. She trained in conservation at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Library of Congress, the National Library of Australia, and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Sterrett has been on the staff at San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art for the past 15 years.

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CALENDAR LISTING: Denison University, Granville -- Gallery Lecture Series presents the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's Director of Collections and Conservation Jill Sterrett '82 speaking on "Piecing Together the Past: The Art and Science of Conservation"; 5 p.m. Wednesday (April 12), Burke Hall (241 W. College St.). Free and open to the public. Contact 740-587-6596 to confirm information.

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Denison University, founded in 1831, is an independent, residential liberal arts institution located in Granville, Ohio. A highly selective college enrolling 2,100 full-time undergraduate students from all 50 states and dozens of foreign countries, Denison is a place where innovative faculty and motivated students collaborate in rigorous scholarship, civic engagement and the cultivation of independent thinking.

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