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Westerman Bulgarella, Mary

Mary Westerman Bulgarella is a consultant on the conservation, research and display of textiles and historic dress, based between Chicago, USA and Florence, Italy. She is the Advisory Committee Coordinator of Costume Colloquium. Mary received her BFA in Art History (1973) and MFA in Art Conservation (1976) and subsequently trained and specialized in the conservation, display and research of textiles and costume. Her professional work focuses not only on interventions and their documentation but also on the problems pertaining to the use of materials and methods of storage and display.