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Anderson block prints and murals a challenging project.

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OCEAN SPRINGS -- When Sharon D. Blank was a little girl growing up outside of New York City, she loved the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art so much she dreamed of being locked in there for the night. While that never happened, her profession as an art conservator has taken her to up close views of some of the world's most amazing art.

"My first trip working as an art conservator for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art was taking three tons of mosaics to the Vatican Museum," Blank said. "I got to go up into the scaffolding of the Sistine Chapel, and watch them restoring Michelangelo's frescoes. I was completely unprepared for what an exalting experience it would be seeing this great art."

Being an art conservator is a unique profession in itself. And being a plastics and rubber art conservator is especially out of the norm.

"Even in my profession I'm very unusual," says Blank, who was hired by the Walter Anderson Museum of Art (WAMA) after a nationwide search for someone to restore the Walter Anderson linoleum blocks damaged during Hurricane Katrina. The blocks carved from linoleum are covered with paint, with paper rolled over the...

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