Achievements
Posted: Thursday, October 29, 2009Art Conservation Department
Buffalo State’s Art Conservation Department received the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society’s Daniel B. Niederlander Award for Outstanding Programming at a Western New York historical organization. Department faculty and students lend their time and expertise to conserving the collections of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Buffalo Museum of Science, the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society, and the Burchfield Penney Art Center.
Students in the master of arts degree and the certificate of advanced study programs work with nationally and internationally recognized conservators and specialists. Alumni hold significant positions in major museums and institutions around the world, including the National Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian Institution, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago.