Michele LiCalsi Michele LiCalsi studied at the Institute of Fine Arts Conservation Center, New York University, receiving an MA in art history and art conservation. She also studied at the New York Academy of Art, National Academy School of Fine Arts and The Art Students League. She teaches at the Institute of Fine Arts Conservation Center, Pratt Institute, and the Trevor Day School. She has been conservator of frescoes at the Parma Cathedral, Italy and conservator of Archaeological Objects in Sardis, Turkey. In the U.S. she has conserved 18th century architectural stucco reliefs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Culin and Egyptian collections of The Brooklyn Museum of Art. She is an artist working in the figurative tradition with a specialty in portraiture.