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Abbie
Vandivere (nee Bagley-Young) is an artist and art restorer/conservator
currently residing in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She is working
towards her PhD
as part of the "Impact of Oil" project in collaboration
with the Rijksmuseum and the University of Amsterdam. She studied
the Conservation of Easel Paintings at the Courtauld Institute,
London (2005). She is a graduate of Princeton University, where
she studied Art History with a concentration in the Visual Arts
(2001). She has won numerous awards and her artwork has been featured
in several exhibitions, including the cross-Canada 'Images of Who
We Are' exhibit sponsored by Kodak. She has designed a mural for
Starbucks Coffee Company and has created logos for several independent
companies. Abbie has applied her artwork to various contexts, including
informative coloring books for the Alberta Children’s Hospital,
and prints used in an exhibition in the Princeton University Art
Museum. In the summer of 2000, she taught art classes to students
in a rural village in Ghana, West Africa. In addition to her two
years of experience teaching private drawing lessons in Princeton,
NJ, Abbie has worked at the Frans Hals Museum, Princeton University
Art Museum and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. In 2001, Abbie
was the Art Director and Storyboard Artist for an independent film
and a nationally televised commercial. She has an interest in website
design, and maintains AbbieArt.com.
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