Mardy Sears

Mardy Sears is an artist and conservation technician with a specialty in paper. She began her career at the Art Institute of Chicago as an intern in the Ryerson and Burnham Library book conservation lab in 2005. After graduating with a master of fine arts from the Center for Book and Paper Arts at Columbia College in 2006, she began working as a technician in the paper conservation lab in the Department of Prints and Drawings. In her current position in the Department of Conservation and Science she prepares works on paper for exhibition and storage, including matting, framing, and constructing storage boxes. Her artistic practice and her work at the museum meet in her love of artist books, printmaking, and box making.