Maria Olivia Davalos Stanton (they/them)

The Conservation Center

Areas of interest: Object conservation, Indigenous cultural heritage, organic materials.

Maria Olivia Davalos Stanton is a 3rd year art conservation student at the Institute’s Conservation Center specializing in objects conservation with a passion for ancient materials and Indigenous cultural heritage. They have an undergraduate degree from Stanford, majoring in classics with a minor in chemistry. They have interned in objects conservation labs at the J Paul Getty Museum and the Midwest Art Conservation Center, a private painting conservation studio, worked at a production handmade papermill in the midwest, and completed a treatment at NYU’s own Villa la Pietra. Maria Olivia strives to foster decolonized methodologies within the field of conservation informed by their own multicultural, bilingual identity..