preparator

Stefan Selzer an author on the project who prepared the specimen said: “As a preparator I have worked on more than 60 pterosaur specimens from Solnhofen limestone. I recognized during the final prep this specimen showed features that combined characteristics of both major groups of pterosaurs, with the shortened tail as the most important diagnostic feature.”

Viola snagged a part-time job there as a technician and exhibition preparator, and he would have his first exhibition at the Everson in 1973.

A work by Manuel Rodríguez-Delgado involving a climate-sealed notebook and custom shipping crates glances off the unwieldy category of preparator work, and the wall label for Sol LeWitt’s “Wall Drawing #48,” per his instructions, names the people who drew it.

Beneath it, Blasto Onyango, head preparator of the National Museums of Kenya, found a huge hominin molar.

But if you, private citizen of age in the state of Washington, are determined to combine your intoxicants — and, caveat preparator — you can purchase said beverages and use them as mixers with alcohol that you purchase legally at, say, a grocery store, and consume them recreationally in the privacy of your own home.