Kimberly Johnson
MAC Candidate
Art Conservation Program
Stream: Treatment
Specialization: Paintings
Areas of Interest: Egg tempera, gilding, technical analysis, spectrophotometry, pigments
Kim Johnson graduated from Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 2024 with a Bachelor of Science in Art History, with a minor in Fine Arts. While attending university, she worked as a student employee at the Drexel Founding Collection, where she assisted with exhibitions and collections. She completed two internships at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, concentrating on the conservation of works on paper and photographs. She also interned at Gold Leaf Studios in Washington, D.C., where she gained experience conserving frames and other gilded objects. Kim completed her first graduate internship at The Barnes Foundation, where she performed technical analysis on Giogio de Chirico paintings.