Leah Bright

Leah Bright is an objects conservator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC, USA. She is particularly interested in organic materials, contemporary art, and preventive conservation. She was previously an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Objects Conservation at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian.

She graduated from the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation in 2017, and completed graduate placements at the Arizona State Museum, the Prado Museum, and the Alaska State Museum.

Born and raised in Fairbanks, Alaska, Leah studied Art History and Spanish at the University of Oregon where she focused on the study of artistic responses to immigration policy along the US-Mexico border.