Bethany Hughes

Bethany Hughes

MAC Candidate

Art Conservation Program

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Areas of interest: modern and contemporary art, performance documentation and ephemera, technical analysis 

Bethany Hughes holds a BFA Double Major in Visual Arts and Creative Writing (University of Victoria, 2015) and a MFA in Creative Writing (Columbia University, 2019), where she designed a series of handmade books including a leporello of dance scores: Points of Contact, published with Tender Buttons Press. Her writing and visual art appears in Contemporary Verse 2: The Canadian Journal of Poetry, Emergency INDEX / Ugly Duckling Presse, Leste, Metatron Press, among others. She has performed in groups with Movement Research as part of Judson Dance Theater: The Work is Never Done exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, as well as harp accompaniment for À l'École de l’Anthropocène in France and The Poetry Project in New York. Before joining Âé¶¹¹Ù꿉۪s, she worked as a conservation assistant with Athena Art Conservation and Fraser Spafford Ricci Art & Archival Conservation.