Assistant Conservator/Project Manager

Justine Bello has a 7-year background in historic preservation. As an assistant conservator and project manager for CSI, Justine participates in the project administration, condition assessment, testing and hands-on treatment of historic architecture, monuments and artifacts. Justine first joined Conservation Solutions, Inc. in 2006 to fulfill her master’s degree internship, and returned to work full-time in 2007. In a short time Justine has been involved with a wide range of projects, including overseeing the conservation of the monumental Art Deco doors and gates at the US Department of Justice Building in Washington, DC, condition assessment of the Coral Gables police and fire station for its conversion into a museum, and the treatment of marine artifacts recovered from the shipwreck of the RMS Carpathia. Prior to joining CSI Justine’s preservation interests focused on historic decorative plaster, exhibited in her graduate research and her work (2004-2005) on the multi-year restoration of the exuberant 18th-century plaster ceilings at Kenmore (Fredericksburg, VA).

Education:
2007 MS in Historic Preservation, Research and Thesis: Modern Appropriations of an Historic Material: how decorative plaster did and did not change, 1870-1930. Columbia University, New York, NY
2005 BA in Historic Preservation, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA