Meet The People
Christopher Watters
Assistant Conservator
Chris Watters obtained his B.F.A. in studio art and a B.S. in botany from the University of Wyoming in 2001. He earned his M.A. and advanced certificate in art conservation from Buffalo State College in 2008.
Coming from a fine arts background, Chris offers a unique perspective to the project. Originally starting his career in the studio of a paintings restorer, during graduate school Chris switched his focus to objects and gained experience in archaeological conservation while working with the Middle Eastern Cultural Center of Japan at the Kaman- Kalehöyük excavation in Turkey. Later he worked in the objects lab of the Brooklyn Museum of Art treating and preparing artifacts to travel in the exhibition To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures From the Brooklyn Museum. Before joining the Hunley project, Chris finished a year-long internship at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, where he participated in the conservation and technical studies of sculpture dating from the Renaissance to the present.
Chris joined the Hunley Project in 2008. His work includes conservation and documentation of metal and organic artifacts, as well as the conservation of the hull itself. His research interests include the conservation of metals and the conservation of over-sized artifacts.
