Josephine Jenks

The Conservation Center

Areas of interest: Time-based media; prints and drawings, and modern and contemporary art.

Josephine Jenks is a Mellon Foundation Fellow in Time-Based Media Art Conservation. Growing up in Brooklyn, New York, she formed an early passion for art that endured through college at Wesleyan University. There, she earned a double bachelor’s degree in English and studio art, while also taking courses in art history and coding. Interested in both time-based media and works on paper, she has held conservation internships at the National Museum of American History, the Frick Art Reference Library, Cooper Hewitt, and the Barbara Goldsmith Preservation & Conservation Department at Bobst Library.