Hope La Farge is a conservator specializing in the conservation of waterlogged and dry organic and inorganic archaeological materials, with extensive experience treating three-dimensional objects and paper.
Hope has a strong collaborative research background working with First Nations communities and is particularly interested in holistic and ethical approaches to conservation. Her goal is to build community capacity through collaborative, community-centered conservation practice.
She holds a Master of Art Conservation in Artifacts Conservation from Queen’s University and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of British Columbia.
Hope has held conservation positions at the Museum of Anthropology, the Canadian Conservation Institute, the Museum of Vancouver, the Government of Nunavut, the Royal British Columbia Museum, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. She has also worked in private practice with Revival Conservators and Conservation of Sculptures, Monuments, Objects.
She is the recipient of several awards, including the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Award for Chemistry, the John Grant Memorial Award, the Judith Eyrl Award, the Queen’s Graduate Award, and the Mary Lou Florian Award.
Her current involvement includes the Wet Organics Preservation Partnership (WOPP), the British Columbia Heritage Emergency Response Network (BCHERN), the Canadian Association for Conservation (CAC), and the Pacific Conservation Guild (PCG).
