Melissa Conn will share her insider’s perspective of Save Venice’s compelling restoration efforts at the Room of the Four Doors at Palazzo Ducale, Santa Maria Assunta on Torcello, and through the Women Artists of Venice program. Highlights will also include exciting new projects getting underway at the Basilica dei Frari, the church of San Pantalon, and at the Conservatorio Benedetto Marcello at Palazzo Pisani. 

Presented by Melissa Conn, Director, Venice Office of Save Venice.

Melissa Conn is the Director of the Venice office of Save Venice and has been with the organization since 1989. With 35 years of experience in the field of Venetian art history and restoration, Melissa oversees all of the organization’s conservation projects in Venice and regularly gives lectures in Italy and the United States on Save Venice’s projects. Born and raised in Ohio, she earned her B.A. in Art History from Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

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Image: Conservator restoring the ceiling of the Room of the Foor Doors in Palazzo Ducale.