Alumnae
Name: Chelcey Berryhill, class of 2008
Majors: Art History and Studio Art
Study abroad and internships: Chelcey studied art in Cortona, Italy, during the summer of 2006. During the summer of 2007, she interned with the International Fine Arts Conservation Studio restoring the exterior, decorative faux finish on the 1918 mansion, El Jardin. She pursued the opportunity through her work with The Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation and hoped it would further prepare her for a graduate program in art conservation. She was also selected to catalogue an extensive art collection of Richard and Marge Lorance that will eventually be donated to Wesleyan. In 2006 she won the William P. Simmons art scholarship.
Since graduating from Wesleyan: She graduated in 2008, then moved to Manhattan and began graduate study in the American Fine and Decorative Arts at Sotheby’s Institute of Art. “I want to work in a museum as a curator, or at the auction house or even as a conservator,” she said. “I enjoy working with art so much that I want to surround myself with art and with people who feel the same way I do.”