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Published on: 9/29/2007
Last Visited: 9/29/2007
Jeffrey Wirsing
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Jeffrey Wirsing has been collaborating with Jeanne Ruddy since the inception of Jeanne Ruddy Dance in 2000.
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They met over twenty years ago while Mr. Wirsing was an assistant to Halston, working on costumes for Martha Graham's interpretation of The Rite of Spring in 1984.
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Having studied art conservation in Florence, Italy in 1990-91 Mr. Wirsing worked on the restoration of historic furniture and historic villa interiors in Florence and Palermo.In 2000, he was awarded the Eleanor Lambert Fellowship in Objects Conservation, offered by Save Venice, Inc., and spent nine months in Venice working with Venetian restorers on such projects as the restoration of the high altar of San Francesco della Vigna.In 2003, he recieved a Fulbright Fellowship to return to Venice to study conservation techniques of Venetian decorative stucco.Mr. Wirsing is currently restoring a house in the south of France in the historic city of Beaucaire.