Melissa Conn will illustrate recent restoration activities in Venice, as well as Save Venice’s plans for the future. Reception to follow.

Melissa Conn is the Director of the Venice office of Save Venice and has been with the organization since 1989. With 36 years of experience in the field of Venetian art history and restoration, Melissa oversees all of the organization’s conservation projects in Venice and is responsible for Save Venice’s “Women Artists of Venice” conservation track. Conn regularly gives lectures in Italy and the United States on Save Venice’s projects. A long-time resident of Venice, she was born and raised in Ohio, and earned her B.A. in Art History from Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

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Image: Mosaic presbytery floor in the Basilica of Santa Maria Assunta on Torcello during conservation.