MEDIA INTERVIEWS: NATIONAL AND LOCAL NEWSPAPERS
Santa Barbara News-Press, “Students Discuss 2020 Election in Capps Center Panel,” October 28, 2020, by Annelise Hanshaw https://newspress.com/students-discuss-2020-election-in-capps-center-panel/
Montecito Journal, “805 Conservation Collective Opens-up Lab to Help Mudslide Victims Recover and Mend Valuable Memories,” March 22, 2018, by Kelly Mahan Herrick https://issuu.com/santabarbarasentinel/docs/mj_12_24_full/1?e=6198003/59479192
Noozhawk, “’We Remember Them’ Exhibit Helps Isla Vista Grieve for Victims of 2014 Massacre, June 14, 2015, by Gina Potthoff. https://www.noozhawk.com/article/remember_them_exhibit_helps_isla_vista_grieve_for_massacre_victims_20150614
Ventura County Star, “Exhibiting Sorrow: Items Left for Isla Vista Are Preserved,” Sunday May 24, 2015, by Colleen Cason
Santa Barbara News-Press, “UCSB’s Only On-Campus Memorial Wall Honors Victims of IV Killings,” by Sara Bush, June 2014.
New York Times, May 26, 2014, “Campus Killings Set Off Anguished Conversation About the Treatment of Women,” https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/27/us/campus-killings-set-off-anguished-conversation-about-the-treatment-of-women.html
Santa Barbara News Press Article
MEDIA INTERVIEWS: UCSB SCHOOL NEWSPAPERS
The Daily Nexus, “UCSB Community Members Discuss Post-Election Future in Capps Center Zoom Panel,” November 25, 2020, by Ellah Foster, https://dailynexus.com/2020-11-25/ucsb-community-members-discuss-post-election-future-in-capps-center-zoom-panel/
The Daily Nexus, “Isla Vista Memorial Project Receives Digital Revival for Fifth Anniversary,” May 23, 2019, by Katherine Swartz, http://dailynexus.com/2019-05-23/isla-vista-memorial-project-receives-digital-revival-for-fifth-anniversary/
The Daily Nexus, “A Legacy of Remembrance: Documenting Isla Vista’s Recovery After May 23, 2014,” November 8, 2018, by Josh Ortiz http://dailynexus.com/2017-05-23/a-legacy-of-remembrance-documenting-isla-vistas-recovery-after-may-23-2014/
The Daily Nexus, “Biden Expresses Hope for the Future, Gives UCSB Audience Surprise Appearance,” October 24, 2017 by Hannah Jackson, http://dailynexus.com/2017-10-24/biden-expresses-hope-for-the-future-through-students/
The Bottom Line, “Unsung Heroes: First Responders and Historians,” May 24, 2017, by Madeleine Lee, https://thebottomline.as.ucsb.edu/2017/05/unsung-heroes-first-responders-and-historians
The Bottom Line, “Remembrance,” May 24, 2017, by Linus Li, https://thebottomline.as.ucsb.edu/2017/05/remembrance
The Bottom Line, “TA Spotlight: Melissa Barthelemy, History” February 8, 2017, by Linus Li, https://thebottomline.as.ucsb.edu/2017/02/ta-spotlight-melissa-barthelemy-history
The Bottom Line, “In Remembrance: Arts Come Together to Honor Students’ Lives,” May 25, 2016, by Madeleine Lee, https://thebottomline.as.ucsb.edu/2016/05/iv-turns-blue
The Bottom Line, “UCSB Exhibition Seeks to Empower Students, Celebrate Community,” May 27, 2015, by Gwendelyn Wu, https://thebottomline.as.ucsb.edu/2015/05/ucsb-exhibition-seeks-to-empower-students-celebrate-community
The Daily Nexus, “We Remember Them: Honoring the Unlucky Bright Minds of Our Youth,” June 30, 2015 by Alec Hartnett, http://dailynexus.com/2015-06-30/we-remember-them-honoring-the-unlucky-bright-minds-of-our-youth/
DOCUMENTARY WORK:
I have helped advise museums, libraries and archives on rapid response collecting in the wake of tragedies and have worked extensively with news media outlets. In 2018 I assisted the New York Times with their coverage of the Montecito Mudslide Disaster. I began a project to salvage irreplaceable items from homes damaged in the mudflow and this work caught the attention of the newspaper.
Thomas Fuller, San Francisco Bureau Chief for the New York Times watches as staff photographer Jim Wilson takes a picture of a conservator who is restoring a painting damaged in the Montecito Mudslide. Photograph taken on April 12, 2018 inside Fine Art Conservation Laboratories, Santa Barbara. Photograph by Melissa Barthelemy.
Jim Wilson, staff photographer for the New York Times takes a picture of a conservator who is restoring a painting damaged in the Montecito Mudslide. Photograph by Melissa Barthelemy.