AIC's 52nd Annual Meeting: Directory

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Ahmed Abdrabou

Company Grand Egyptian Museum
Position Deputy Head of Wood Conservation Laboratory and Responsible for MSI and single-spot Spectroscopic techniques
Location Giza, Egypt

J. Luca Ackerman

J. Luca Ackerman studied photography at the Rhode Island School of Design, Massachusetts College of Art and earned a Bachelors degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Luca joined the staff at The Better Image® after graduating from FAMU in Prague, Czech Republic, with a Masters degree in Photograph Conservation.

Company The Better Image
Position Associate Conservator
Location Brooklyn, NY

Lisa Ackerman

Lisa Ackerman is currently an associate conservator in the Objects Conservation Department at the Art Institute of Chicago where she is focused on wooden architectural elements, furniture, decorative arts and objects associated with the European and Asian collections. She joined the Art Institute as a two year project conservator, restoring a late 17th century Gibbons overmantel and has stayed on permanently. She previously spent 3 years at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City working on wooden objects for the renovation of the British Galleries. Lisa was the WAG Program Chair for the... Read more

Company The Art Institute of Chicago
Position Associate Conservator, Objects
Location Chicago, IL

Savannah Adams

Ayaka Ajiki

Ayaka Ajiki is a Conservator from the Archives Conservation Lab at the National Archives of Singapore (part of National Library Board). She conducts interventive conservation on paper-based records and support preventive conservation work undertaken by the department, ensuring paper-based library and archival records are conserved according to the conservation best practices. Ayaka also drives efforts curating training for library and archives staff in collection care, conservation consultations and outreach engagement.

Company National Archives of Singapore
Position Conservator
Location Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Ana Alba

Ana Alba is a painting conservator in private practice and specializes in the conservation of 19th Century, modern and contemporary works. She previously worked for Luca Bonetti Corp., and was the William R. Leisher Fellow in the Conservation and Research of Modern Paintings at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. She has also held internships at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and the Wadsworth Atheneum. Ana is a 2009 graduate from the Art Conservation Department at Buffalo State College.

Company Alba Art Conservation
Position Conservator
Location Pittsburgh, PA

Charlotte Ameringer

Company Portland Art Museum
Position Conservator
Location Portland, OR

Alisha Andrews

Passionate about dismantling barriers and fostering inclusive communities, Alisha Andrews is a dynamic force for equity initiatives. With over a decade of experience in health, education, veterans' affairs, and organizational culture, Alisha's expertise extends far beyond theory - she's an action-driven practitioner. Through her strategic community partnerships and her work with the US government, higher education, and nonprofits, Alisha has honed a sharp understanding of equitable change management. Join her in envisioning a future where every voice is heard, and every opportunity is accessible... Read more

Company WorkHype
Position Founder

Ella Andrews

Ella Andrews is the Andrew W. Mellon Advanced Fellow in Objects Conservation at Emory University’s Michael C. Carlos Museum. She received an M.S. in Conservation for Archaeology and Museums and an M.A. in Principles of Conservation from University College London subsequent to a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She has previously worked at The Fitzwilliam Museum, Archaeology South-East, and UCL Institute of Archaeology. She has worked as a conservator on archaeological projects in the United States, United Kingdom, Israel/Palestine, Greece, and is currently... Read more

Company Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University
Position Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Objects Conservation
Location Atlanta, GA, USA

Rachael Arenstein

Rachael Perkins Arenstein is a Professional Associate member of the American Institute for Conservation and Fellow in IIC. She is a principal of A.M. Art Conservation, LLC, the private practice that she co-founded in 2009. She has worked at the Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem, the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, the American Museum of Natural History and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She completed internships at the British Museum and the Israel Museum as well as other international institutions. Rachael's degree in art conservation... Read more

Company A.M. Art Conservation, LLC
Position Principal
Location White Plains, NY

Jessica Arista

Jessica Arista received her M.S. in Art Conservation with a speciality in objects conservation from the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation in 2010. During graduate school she completed internships at the National Gallery of Art, Kaman-KalehÃ¶yük excavation in Turkey, and the Walters Art Museum.
From 2009 to 2013 she worked at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore in various capacities - as a graduate intern, a Samuel H. Kress Fellow, and an assistant objects conservator. Jessica is currently an assistant objects conservator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston...

Company Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Position Assistant Objects Conservator
Location Jamaica Plain, MA

Fran Baas

Bridging the worlds of objects and textile conservation, Baas previously has worked in conservation labs at the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, the Barnes Foundation, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and Historic New England. She is a graduate of the SUNY Buffalo’s Masters Program in Art Conservation, where she specialized in objects conservation. Before pursuing conservation, Baas obtained her first masters in Museum Science from Texas Tech University, and worked in a variety of collection management and exhibition... Read more

Company Dallas Museum of Art
Position Conservator
Location Dallas, TX

Clara Bailin

Clara was a conservation technician in special collec ons at Harvard’s Weissman Preserva on Center before starting her graduate studies. She attended Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts where she received a BA in Art History and was a historic collections intern in the college’s special collections, archives, and conservation lab. During her undergraduate studies, Clara also had summer internships at both The Frick Art Reference Library in New York City and the Arkansas History Commission in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Company Art Conservation Department State University of New York College
Position Art Conservator
Location Buffalo NY

Saiful Bakhri

Saiful Bakhri, Institut Konservasi Founder and Conservator; Graduate Student at UCLA Ph.D. Program in Conservation of Material Culture. Through UCLA, he seeks to address the cultural importance and physical production of traditional materials for conservation treatment to better meet the environmental, social, and cultural needs of non-Western communities and how they can be incorporated into Western practice. Previously, he worked as a conservator for three years at the Bali Cultural Heritage Preservation Office, Gianyar, Bali, a technical unit responsible for the conservation of cultural heritage... Read more

Company Institut Konservasi, UCLA
Position Founder of Institut Konservasi, Ph.D. Student at UCLA
Location Los Angeles, CA, USA

Mary W. Ballard

Education

B.A. Wellesley (1971)
M.A. and Diploma in Conservation New York University Institute of Fine Arts (1979)
Additional coursework: North Carolina State University, College of Textiles

Research Specialties and Interests

Interested in coloration of textiles and in the evidence of past technologies on historic textiles. Research specialties include work on finishes, surfactants, storage systems, climate, and exhibition as they affect the preservation of textile collections. Responsibilities include being licensed (Maryland) for fumigation, research and demonstration in order to be able to provi... Read more

Company Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute
Position Conservator
Location Suitland, MD

Kitti Barathova

Mgr. art. Kitti Baráthová is a photograph conservator based in Slovakia. She is a Department of Restoration and Conservation graduate at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design (AFAD) in Bratislava, who specialises in paper and photograph conservation. Since 2019 she has assisted at teaching at the Department of Restoration at AFAD in the Photograph Conservation Studio, lecturing courses such as Historical Photographic Techniques - Theory and Practice. In 2022 she started her PhD studies under the supervision of Associate Professor Mgr. art. Janka Blaško Križanová ArtD. Her research focuses m... Read more

Company Academy of Fine Arts and Design
Position Photograph Conservation Studio
Location Bratislava, Slovakia

Dr. M. Susan Barger

Dr. Barger has worked in the field of conservation for over forty years in various capacities as a conservation scientist, an educator both on the university level and for professional development for non-conservators, and as as a field services consultant to small museums and archives. She taught at Johns Hopkins University In the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the University of New Mexico, in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. She was the manager of the Small Museum Development Project and the director of Museum Development Associates, both organizations aimed... Read more

Company RetiredCoordinator, Connecting to Collections Care
Location Santa Fe, NM

Ivey Barker

Graduate Student, Photographic Preservation and Collections Management, University of Rochester in collaboration with the George Eastman House

Company University of Rochester/George Eastman Museum
Position M.A. Photographic Preservation and Collections Managment
Location Rochester, NY

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Christopher Barnett

Native of Virginia, earned BFA in Art History/Museum Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University 1988, have been working as a framer since 1983, first conservation-related experiences were studying at VCU (Laurence Pace) and lab assistant (Cleo Mullins). Relocated to San Francisco and began employment at Sterling Art Services in 1988. Company was established in 1981; and became owner in 1991. Our focus is on creating museum quality frame packages, couple with excellent structural considerations and art-historical appropriate frame designs which lean heavily on hand-finished frames constructed from... Read more

Company Sterling Art Services LLC
Position Proprietor
Location San Francisco, CA

Laura Bartoli

El.En is the parent company of an international group of companies developing and producing laser systems for medicine, industry, and conservation of artworks. El.En. offers in Italy and abroad the widest range of solutions dedicated to laser cleaning of Cultural Heritage: El.En.'s lasers are continuously optimized, in collaboration with the most important National Research Centers, to offer restorers handy and reliable laser systems for their daily conservation practice.

Company El.En. S.p.A.
Position Product Specialist, Light For Art Division

Lucia Bay

Lucia Bay joined the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) as the Project Assistant Conservator of Paintings in 2016 to study and treat the 1520 Descent from the Cross by Joos van Cleve. Since 2018 she has been working on paintings in preparation for a 2020 installation of the new American galleries. Lucia trained at the Courtauld Institute of Art in the Conservation of Easel Paintings, completing her postgraduate diploma in 2016. Previously she received a B.A. Fine art from University of California Los Angeles and worked as a technician in painting conservation at the Art Institute of Chicago and the... Read more

Company Philadelphia Museum of Art
Position Project Assistant Conservator of Paintings
Location Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Kenneth Be

Company Gerald R. Ford Conservation Center
Position Head of Paintings Conservation
Location Omaha, NE

Karina Beeman

Location Boston, MA

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Reinhard Bek

Prior to enrolling in the Conservation Program of the HTW, University of Applied Sciences in Berlin, Reinhard apprenticed as a Ship-Builder in Hamburg (1993 to 1996), and completed internships in the Conservation Departments of several museums in Germany. He was a Fellow at the Swiss Institute of Art Research (SIK), Zurich, Switzerland, in 2001, and completed his training as an Objects Conservator in 2002. He holds a graduate degree in the Conservation of Objects. Reinhard joined the Museum Tinguely in Basel, Switzerland from 2002 to 2012 as Head of Conservation. Reinhard was a Participant of the... Read more

Company Bek & Frohnert LLC
Position Partner
Location New York, NY

Vincent Beltran

Vincent Beltran joined GCI Science in 2002. He has been an active participant in a range of research projects including the mechanical characterization of historic materials, the effect of reduced oxygen environments on color change, evaluations of packing case performance during transport, and assessments of environmental management systems in hot and humid climates. He is a co-author with Shin Maekawa and Michael C. Henry of Environmental Management for Collections: Alternative Conservation Strategies for Hot and Humid Climates. He holds a BS in General Chemistry from the University of California... Read more

Company Getty Conservation Institute
Position Assistant Scientist
Location Los Angeles, CA

Brynn Bender

Company National Park Service
Position Conservator, Senior Curator
Location Charlestown, MA

Aniko Bezur-[PA]

Anikó Bezur received a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Arizona. As a doctoral candidate, she completed internships at the Arizona State Museum's Conservation Laboratory, the Smithsonian Institution's Museum Conservation Institute, and the Getty Conservation Institute's Museum Services Laboratory. Following her appointment at the Art Conservation Department at Buffalo State College as a lecturer and then assistant professor of conservation science, she held the position of Associate Conservation Scientist at the Art Institute. From 2008 to 2012 she was the first... Read more

Company Wallace S. Wilson Director of Scientific Research
Position Professional Associate
Location West Haven, CT

Sean Billups

Sean Billups holds a BA in History and a BA in Art Conservation, and is a MA student in the Professional Conservation program at Cardiff University. Sean is studying objects conservation, and has a particular interest in imaging science and software tools. Through creative application of emerging manufacturing techniques, software, and technical research, Sean focuses on creating accessible tools for use in the field of conservation.

Company Cardiff University
Position MA Student
Location Cardiff, United Kingdom

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Jenna Bluhm

Company Minnesota Historical Society
Position Book and Paper Conservation
Location Saint Paul, MN

Kathryn Boodle

Kathryn Boodle is a Senior Conservator with the Northeast Document Conservation Center where she has worked since 2015 and a Professional Associate of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC). She has studied and worked in the conservation field since 2010, beginning as an intern at a private conservation lab in Columbia, SC. Kathryn holds a BA from Columbia College (SC) in Studio Arts, with minors in Art History and Chemistry. She earned her MA in Art Conservation at the University of the Arts (Camberwell College of the Arts,) London. She is the current Communications... Read more

Company Northeast Document Conservation Center
Position Senior Conservator
Location Andover, MA, USA

Courtney Books

Courtney Books is an emerging art conservator specializing in the conservation of easel paintings and murals. She received her M.A.C from Queen’s University (2018) and holds an M.A. in Art History from McGill University (2013). Currently a Mellon fellow at the Balboa Art Conservation Center in San Diego, Courtney has also trained at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston), Gianfranco Pocobene Studio (Boston), the Prado Museum (Madrid) and Parma Conservation (Chicago). Interest in the biodeterioration and bioremediation of artworks has fueled Courtney’s collaborative research with practicing... Read more

Company Balboa Art Conservation Center
Position Mellon Fellow in Paintings Conservation
Location San Diego, CA

Jennifer Booth

Company Tru Vue, Inc.
Position Supplier/Service Provider
Location Countryside, IL

Christian de Brer

Christian de Brer (he/his) is Head of Conservation at the Fowler Museum at UCLA. He has a MA from the UCLA/Getty Program in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage and is a Ph.D. candidate in Conservation of Material Culture at UCLA. His dissertation focuses on the provenance and analysis of ancient West Mexican ceramics in the holdings of Mexican and Southern Californian institutions. His research reflects on source community involvement in conservation decision-making.

Company Fowler Museum at UCLA
Position Director of Conservation
Location Los Angeles, CA, USA

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Mary Broadway

Mary Broadway received her M.A. and Advanced Certificate of Study in Art Conservation from Buffalo State College in Buffalo, NY. She has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts at the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts and the Sherman Fairchild Foundation at the Morgan Library and Museum where her focus was on the treatment of ancient papyrus and Italian master drawings. Currently she is the Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in paper conservation at the Art Institute of Chicago where she has been studying and treating the Institute's collection of Paul Gauguin's graphic... Read more

Company The Art Institute of Chicago
Position Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Location Chicago

Shannon A. Brogdon-Grantham

Shannon A. Brogdon-Grantham is the photograph and paper conservator at the Smithsonian’s Museum Conservation Institute (MCI). She obtained her MS from the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation where she specialized in photograph conservation with minor concentrations in paper and preventive conservation. She holds a BA in art from Spelman College. At MCI her primary areas of research are understanding historic and contemporary photographic and papermaking techniques, preventive care of photographs and works on paper, characterizing materials used in the manufacture of... Read more

Company Museum Conservation Institute, Smithsonian
Position Photograph Conservator
Location Suitland, MD

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Barbara N. Brown

Position Conservator
Location Austin, TX

JP Brown

JP is the Regenstein Conservator for Pacific Anthropology at The Field Museum, Chicago. He holds degrees in both Archaeological Conservation and Computer Science. He started working on 3D imaging of museum collections in 2006 and has been doing CT, laser scanning, and photogrammetry ever since.

Company Field Museum
Position Regenstein Conservator for Pacific Anthropology
Location Chicago, IL

Allie Bryan

Company Conserv
Position Relationship Development Manager
Location New York

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Lynda Bunting

Company Getty Conservation Institute
Position Administrative Staff
Location Los Angeles, CA

Veronica Burbano

Company ConservArt, Inc.
Location Wellington, FL

Kelly H. Caldwell

Kelly is a conservator with over 10 years of experience as an archaeologist and conservator working primarily overseas. She is currently based in our Ottawa, ON office where she manages our Canada based projects. She brings a unique perspective to CSI based on her previous work experience, which largely involved excavation, collections management, conservation and training on a range of materials and projects in England, Egypt, France, Greece and Turkey.

Kelly holds an MSc in Conservation for Archaeology and Museums (2009) and an MA in Principles of Conservation (2006) from the Institute of Ar... Read more

Company EverGreene Architectural Arts, Inc.
Position Conservator
Location Asheville, NC

Irena Calinescu

Irena Calinescu is an objects conservator who has been in private practice since 1999. She received an MA in Art Conservation from Buffalo State College in 1993. She has previously worked at LACMA, the Fowler Museum, and the J. Paul Getty Museum, and continues on staff at LACMA part-time.

Company Fine Arts Conservation LLC
Position Principal/Chief Conservator
Location Los Angeles, CA

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Casey Callaway

Company Curfman Gallery
Position Collections Manager
Location Fort Collins, CO

Al Carver-Kubik

Alison Castaneda

Alison Castaneda holds a M.A. in Fashion and Textile Studies from the Fashion Institute of Technology. She is an associate member of the American Institute of Conservation and is the author of multiple posters and presentations, involving synthetic leather, an Islamic talismanic shirt, the Winnie-the-Pooh toys, and the degradation of iron-tan are dyed textiles. She has interned at the New York Historical Society and the Textile Conservation Laboratory at St. John the Divine. From 2010-2017 she worked at the Textile Conservation Workshop in South Salem, NY and in 2018 completed a Kress Conservation... Read more

Company Museum at FIT
Position Associate Conservator
Location NY, NY

Cayetana Castillo

Cayetana Castillo is the Associate Vice President of Collections and Loans at the Art Institute of Chicago. In her role, Cayetana oversees the management of the collection and loaned objects, defining processes that ensure compliance with the museum’s policies as well as legal obligations to borrowers, lenders, donors, and sellers.

In four distinct areas––collections, loans and exhibitions, art preparation and logistics, and collections systems –– Cayetana’s team implements policies that govern the day-to-day application of museum best practices through strategic and innovative applications of data and new technologies... Read more

Company Art Institute of Chicago
Position Associate Vice President of Collections and Loans
Location Chicago, IL, USA

Sarah Casto

Sarah Casto is Photograph and Paper Conservator at The Ohio State University Libraries. She received her M.A./C.A.S. in Art Conservation from SUNY Buffalo State University in 2017 and BFA in Photography from Bowling Green State University in 2005.

Company Ohio State University Libraries
Position Photograph and Paper Conservator
Location Columbus, Ohio

Oi Yan Michelle Chan

Michelle Chan joined the Science Lab within the Conservation Department at M+ Museum in December 2022. She holds an MPhil in Chemistry from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, which she earned in 2021. Prior to her role at M+, Michelle completed a post-graduate conservation traineeship at various museums under the Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD) in Hong Kong, including the Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong Heritage Museum, and Hong Kong Museum of History.

Michelle's passion lies in applying scientific principles to the field of art and heritage conservation. Her current work is dedicated to exploring and understanding the diverse materials used in contemporary artworks and artist practices through analytical research... Read more

Company M Plus Museum Limited
Position Conservation Research Assistant
Location Hong Kong

Shuhan Chang

ShuHan Chang is currently a conservator at Nishio Conservation Studio in Washington D.C. since 2015. She mainly conserves Chinese and Japanese scrolls and folding screens, handscrolls, prints, watercolors, and documents. She was born and raised in Taiwan. She earned B.A. degree in Japanese Paintings from Tunghai University. She received M.A. degree in Conservation of Asian Paintings and Paper from Tainan National University of Arts (TNNUA), in Taiwan, in 2013. During her graduate programs, she interned at National Taiwan Museum of Fine Artns, Historical Object Conservation Research Center in National... Read more

Company Nishio Conservation Studio
Position Asian Painting Conservator
Location Washington, DC

Jessica Chasen

Jessica Chasen is an assistant conservator in Decorative Arts and Sculpture Conservation at the J. Paul Getty Museum. Jessica earned an M.S. in Art Conservation from Winterthur / University of Delaware with a specialization in objects conservation and a minor in painted surfaces. Jessica spent her post-graduate year as an intern at the Getty and split her third-year internship between the Museum of Modern Art and the Rijksmuseum. Prior to her graduate training, Jessica earned a B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles and spent several years working as a conservation technician for the... Read more

Company The J. Paul Getty Museum
Position Assistant Conservator
Location Los Angeles, California

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Wing yi Cheung

Wing yi Cheung is a second-year Master of Cultural Materials Conservation student at the University of Melbourne. She holds a Bachelor of Chemistry from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Wing had worked as a conservation project assistant, specialized in painting and paper for two years in Hong Kong.

Company The University of Melbourne
Position Student
Location Hong kong

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Celine Chretien

I am workin in private practice in France, since I am gratuated in 2010 from the French National Institute for Cultural Heritage.

Company Chretien Art Conservation
Position Object Conservator
Location San Francisco, CA

David Lee Colglazier

Company Londonderry, NH
Position Conservator
Location Londonderry, NH

Willow Collins

Willow Collins is an Exhibits Specialist with Smithsonian Exhibits.

Company Smithsonian Exhibits
Position Exhibits Specialist, 3D
Location Washington, DC, USA

LA

Lucy A. Commoner

Company Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Position Conservator Emerita
Location New York, NY

Katharine E. Corneli

Company USU Eastern Prehistoric Museum
Position Curator of Collections
Location Price, UT

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Maria F. Delgado Cornelio

Company University of Delaware
Position Graduate Student

Susan Costello

Susan Costello received her BA in chemistry from College of the Holy Cross and her MS from the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation. After graduating, she completed fellowships at the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, Harvard Art Museums and the Worcester Art Museum. Currently, she is a conservator of objects and sculpture at the Straus Center where she is responsible for the examination, treatment and technical study of three-dimensional objects spanning the collection. Her research interests include the preservation of plastic objects and ancient art... Read more

Company Harvard Art Museums
Position Conservator of Objects and Sculpture
Location Cambridge, MA, USA

Mary Coughlin

Mary Coughlin is an Associate Professor in Museum Studies at The George Washington University in Washington, DC where she has taught preventive conservation in- person and online since 2006. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Historic Preservation from Mary Washington College and her Masters of Science from the Winterthur / University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation. Before teaching full time, Mary worked for five years in the Objects Conservation Laboratory at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History where she conserved objects as diverse as FDR’s leg braces and Star War’s... Read more

Company George Washington University
Position Associate Professor
Location Washington, DC, USA

Leslie Courtois, [PA]

Leslie Courtois is a paper conservator with the Library of Virginia. She attended the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Studio Art Centers International (SACI) in Florence, Italy, Parsons School of Design in Paris, France and Virginia Commonwealth University where she received a BFA. She received a Master of Science in Forensic Science with a concentration in imaging of Questioned Documents from VCU in 2004. Leslie has directed the paper conservation lab located within the State Library of Virginia in Richmond for fifteen years. She is a member of the American Institute for Conservation (AIC... Read more

Company Library of Virginia
Position Conservator
Location Richmond, VA

Megan Creamer

Megan Creamer is the Mellon Fellow in conservation at Historic New England, and graduate of the Centre for Textile Conservation and Technical Art History at the University of Glasgow. She has worked and interned in a variety of roles in private practice conservation, special collections, archives, museums, galleries and biorepositories. She has previously earned an ALM in museum studies from Harvard University Extension School and a BFA in industrial design from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Conservation and research interests include textiles, barkcloth, flags, composite objects... Read more

Company Historic New England
Position Mellon Fellow in Objects Conservation
Location Boston, MA, Massachusetts

Jennifer L. Cruise

Jennifer L. Cruise, Ph.D., MA Cons. originally trained as a scientist, taught cellular and molecular biology at the university level, and directed a small research laboratory. She entered conservation as a volunteer assistant in the conservation department of the Minnesota Historical Society, in St. Paul, studied at the Campbell Center for Historic Preservation Studies in Illinois, and obtained an M.A. in the Conservation of Historic Objects from the University of Lincoln, in the United Kingdom, in 2011, during which training she interned with conservators of the U.K. National Trust. Her particular... Read more

Company Textilis Conservation
Position Conservator
Location Saint Paul, MN

Holly Cusack-McVeigh

Holly Cusack-McVeigh is a Professor of Anthropology and Museum Studies at Indiana University Indianapolis (IUI). She holds appointments as a Public Scholar of Collections and Community Curation and as a Professor of Native American and Indigenous studies. Her research focuses on cultural heritage, repatriation, and toxic heritage. She has worked in the cultural heritage and preservation fields for decades, supporting Native American and Indigenous communities in Alaska, the continental US, Canada, Haiti, New Zealand, Peru, and South Africa.

Company Indiana University Indianapolis
Position Associate Professor

Cassy Cutulle

Cassy Cutulle attended the University of Massachusetts in Boston from 2006 to 2010, graduating summa cum laude with a BA in archaeology and history and a minor in art history. She completed graduate studies at University College London (UCL) from 2011 to 2014, where she obtained an MA degree in Principles of Conservation and an MSc degree in Conservation for Archaeology and Museums. Cassy has recently finished a two-year project in Cyprus, where she managed the preservation of the cargo associated with the Kyrenia Shipwreck. Currently, she is supervising the moth mitigation project as an Assistant... Read more

Company Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
Position Assistant Conservator
Location Cambridge, MA

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Terrance D'Ambrosio

Company NEDCC
Position Director of Imaging Services
Location Medford, MA

Margo Delidow

Margo Delidow, Assistant Conservator for the Whitney Museum of American Art completed a Masters of Arts and Certificate of Advanced Study in Conservation from the Art Conservation Program at Buffalo State, The State University of New York. She is a partner at Whryta Contemporary Art Conservation and a Professional Associate Member of AIC.

Company Whitney Museum of American Art
Position Assistant Conservator
Location New York, New York

Margo Delidow

Margo Delidow, Cy Twombly Conservator for the Whitney Museum of American Art, completed a Masters of Arts and Certificate of Advanced Study in Conservation from the Art Conservation Program at Buffalo State, The State University of New York and a BFA from College for Creative Studies, Detroit, Michigan. She has presented and authored papers on the conservation of collaborative works by Nam Jun Paik and Christo, on the works of Lygia Clark, Yoko Ono, and Lygia Pape, and on the ethics and decision-making of replication within conservation.
margo_delidow@whitney.org

Company Whitney Museum of American Art
Position Cy Twombly Conservator
Location New York, NY, USA

Haddon Augusta Dine

Haddon graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pittsburgh in 2013 with a BS in Chemistry, a second major in History of Art and Architecture, and a minor in Studio Arts. While in school, she interned at The Valspar Corporation and the Carnegie Museum of Art. After graduating, Haddon was an intern and then a technician in the Scientific Research Laboratory at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA), where she analyzed paintings, furniture, and objects including Augustus Saint Gaudens’s Diana, a Ming-dynasty painted wood figure, and the Liberty Bell. With PMA colleagues, she undertook research... Read more

Company Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation
Position Student
Location Frederick, MD

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Vu B. Do

Company Garman Art Conservation Department SUNY Buffalo State
Position Fulbright Graduafe Fellow

Vu Do

Vu Do is a Fulbright Graduate Fellow in conservation at SUNY Buffalo State University. Originally from Vietnam, he worked as an art educator, artist, and curator before coming to Buffalo. He holds a BFA in painting from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. Vu Do's responsibilities include the discovery, conservation, and curation of 'The Hidden Treasure Collection' by Phan Ke An, a renowned Vietnamese painter of the 20th century. He possesses a keen interest in the study of the manufacture and conservation of East Asian lacquer artifacts. Upon completing his graduate studies... Read more

Company Garman Art Conservation Department, SUNY Buffalo State University
Position Fulbright Graduate Fellow
Location Buffalo, NY, USA

Kari Dodson

Kari is associate objects conservator at the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas, where she is responsible for the care of three-dimensional art ranging from modern and contemporary works to antiquities and ethnographic objects. Prior to this post, she held a three-year Mellon fellowship at the Worcester Art Museum and completed internships at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Barnes Foundation, the National Museums of Malawi, the National Museum of the American Indian, and the National Museum of African Art. She holds an MA/CAS in art conservation from SUNY Buffalo State College, and a BA in... Read more

Company The Menil Collection
Position Associate Objects Conservator
Location Houston, TX

Kari Dodson

Kari is objects conservator at the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas, where she is responsible for the care of three-dimensional art ranging from modern and contemporary works to antiquities and ethnographic objects. Prior to this post, she held a three-year Mellon fellowship at the Worcester Art Museum and completed internships at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Barnes Foundation, the National Museums of Malawi, the National Museum of the American Indian, and the National Museum of African Art. She holds an MA/CAS in art conservation from SUNY Buffalo State College, and a BA in anthropology... Read more

Company The Menil Collection
Position Objects Conservator
Location Houston, TX

Emilie Duncan

Library & Archival Materials Conservator

Company The Mariners' Museum & Park
Position Library & Archival Materials Conservator
Location Newport News, VA, USA

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Lisa Duncan

Company Lisa Duncan, Art Conservator, LLC
Position Lisa Duncan
Location Seattle, WA

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Isabelle Duvernois

Company Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fairchild Center for Paintings Conservation
Position Associate Conservator
Location New York, NY

Beth Edelstein

Beth Edelstein is currently Conservator of Objects at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Previously, she was an Associate Conservator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, focusing on the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas. Beth earned her M.A. from the Conservation Center, Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, and was an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at the Cloisters, studying Spanish polychrome tomb sculpture. Beth is co-chair with Sarah Barack of the K-12 Outreach Committee for the American Institute for Conservation.

Company Cleveland Museum of Art
Position Conservator of Objects
Location Cleveland, OH

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Thomas M Edmondson-[Fellow]

Company Heugh-Edmondson Conservation Services, LLC
Position Paper & Photograph Conservator
Location Kansas City, MO

Michelle Eisenberg

Michelle Eisenberg is Executive Director at the Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts in Philadelphia, a regional conservation lab also providing preservation field services. She is co-leading the Cultural Stewardship Planning Initiative, an IMLS-funded project to address staff transition and knowledge transfer in the cultural heritage sector.

Company Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts
Position Executive Director
Location Philadelphia, PA

Mohammad Hefny Abd Elkarim

I am Mohammad Hefny Abd Elkarim. 37 years old almost. I am a conservator in department of glass and ceramic conservation at museum of Islamic Art in Cairo, The ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, Egypt. More than 7 years of experience in glass and ceramic conservation. I have a master’s degree in conservation and restoration of antiquities, Conservation department, faculty of archaeology, Fayoum University, Egypt and Currently, I am a PhD researcher in the same field at the same university. I have 7 scientific papers published in conservation science by Arabic and English language. It is a pleasure... Read more

Company Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo
Position Glass and Ceramic Conservator
Location Cairo, Egypt

Fenna Engelke

Company Harry Ransom Center
Position Student
Location Cedar Park, TX

Marcela S. Estevez

Marcela Estevez is the Head of Conservation in the Preservation and Reformatting Department. Marcela has been a Conservation Specialist with University Libraries since January, 2016. Her conservation experience includes positions at the Huntington Library, the National Library of Argentina, the Schlesinger Library of Harvard University, and an extensive apprenticeship in a private art and paper conservation practice in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Marcela holds an MFA in Painting from the National Institute of the Arts in Buenos Aires, and an MA in Library and Information Science from the University... Read more

Company Ohio State University Libraries
Position Conservator
Location Dublin, OH

Mirasol Estrada-[PA]

Mirasol Estrada is a private consultant photograph conservator. She’s gained considerable experience in the care and treatment of fine-art photography and in exhibition procedures. Her primary focus as the Mellon Fellow at the Art Institute of Chicago was the study of László Moholy-Nagy’s photographic work and the working practices of the New Bauhaus. Mirasol was honored with a two year Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in the Advanced Residency Program in Photograph Conservation at the George Eastman House and the Image Permanence Institute in Rochester, New York (2007-2009). While a Fellow, she...

Company Private Practice
Position Photograph Conservator
Location Chicago, IL

Elmer Eusman-[Fellow]

Elmer Eusman received his diploma in book and paper conservation in 1989 from the Dutch National School for Conservation, a four-year program now integrated with the University of Amsterdam. After completing his studies, he completed internships in a private conservation studio in Paris, the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum, and the British Museum in London. He completed a three-year post-graduate fellowship at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC and worked as a conservator at the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Boymans Museum in Rotterdam, and the Library of Congress. For almost ten years, he served... Read more

Company Library of Congress
Position Chief, Conservation Division
Location Washington, District of Columbia

Michelle Facini-[Fellow]

MICHELLE FACINI is a Senior Paper Conservator at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., where she performs and directs complex conservation treatment, conducts technical scholarship, and supports educational outreach and mentorship. Michelle regularly collaborates with curators and conservation scientists, and her publications describe the materials and techniques of paintings on construction paper by Mark Rothko, Edgar Degas's late pastel works on tracing paper, fifteenth-century Italian illuminated manuscripts, and the preservation of oversized artworks. Her doctoral work at the University... Read more

Company National Gallery of Art
Position Senior Conservator
Location Washington DC

Lauren Fair-[PA]

2010 graduate of the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation with a specialty in objects. Completed third year internship at the Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2010-2011 completed post-graduate Kress fellowship at Winterthur studying 18th-19th-century Staffordshire enamel technology on ceramics. 2011-2012 Advanced Conservation Fellow in the Objects Lab at Winterthur Museum, fulfilling duties for both the Conservation Department and the Winterthur/University of Delaware graduate training program. Currently Objects Conservator... Read more

Company Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library
Position Conservator of Objects and Affiliated Faculty
Location West Chester, PA

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Madeleine Fang

Company Phoebe A. Hearst Museum University of California
Position Conservator
Location Berkeley, CA

Jonathan Farbowitz

Jonathan Farbowitz is currently the Associate Conservator of Time-Based Media at the Metropolitan Museum of Art where he cares for the film, video, audio, slide, and software-based artworks in the Met's collection. He is also an Adjunct Professor in New York University’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program and has lectured internationally on digital preservation topics. Previously, he was a Fellow in the Conservation of Computer-Based Art at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. He holds an MA in Moving Image Archiving and Preservation from New York University and has previous experience in software deve... Read more

Company Metropolitan Museum of Art
Position Associate Conservator of Time-Based Media
Location New York, New York

Lénia Oliveira Fernandes

Lénia Oliveira Fernandes has a master’s degree in Conservation and Restoration from Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, specializing in photograph and paper objects. She is currently PhD candidate in the same institution, with a focus on chromogenic transparencies (a.k.a. colour slides) in Portuguese collections. This project is financed by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (ref. 2022.13036.BDANA).

She has worked as a photograph conservator at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam (2014-2016 and 2021-2022) and the Nederlands Fotomuseum (2016-2021). Her professional experience and training is also conn... Read more

Company FCT NOVA
Position PhD Student
Location Portugal

Quinn Morgan Ferris

Quinn Morgan Ferris is the Senior Conservator for Special Collections and Coordinator for Conservation Services at the University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign, where she started as the Rare Book Conservator in 2016. Quinn's current position at the U of I includes conservation treatment and planning for Special Collections materials, student supervision and teaching, academic research initiatives, outreach and advocacy, and participation in grant writing and implementation. She is an adjunct lecturer at the University of Illinois School of Information Sciences, and works on developing... Read more

Company University of Illinois
Position Coordinator, Conservation Services and Senior Conservator for Special Collections
Location Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA

Daniel Finn

Dan Finn is currently the Time-Based Media Conservator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. He graduated in 2014 with an MA in Moving Image Archiving and Preservation from New York University. He also worked with the Smithsonian Institution as a contractor for media preservation and digitization services for the National Museum of African American History and Culture. He has also worked with Democracy Now!, CUNY-TV, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and Third World Newsreel.

Company Smithsonian American Art Museum
Position Conservator, Time-Based Media
Location Washington, DC

Monique C. Fischer-[Fellow]

Monique C. Fischer is the senior photograph conservator at the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC) in Andover, MA. She holds a master’s degree in art conservation from the University of Delaware/Winterthur Museum, and a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Smith College, Northampton, MA. Prior to coming to NEDCC she worked at the Image Permanence Institute at Rochester Institute of Technology, and The International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House in Rochester, NY. In collaboration with the Image Permanence Institute she was awarded a Technical Achievement Award from... Read more

Company Northeast Document Conservation Center
Position Senior Photograph Conservator
Location Andover, MA

Zachary Fox

Location Baton Rouge LA

Kendall Francis

Kendall received a BA joint honours degree in Fine Art and Art History from Plymouth University and a PGDIP in easel painting conservation from The Courtauld Institute of Art. She was a Conservation Fellow at the National Gallery, London and most recently a Painting Conservation Intern at the J. Paul Getty Museum. Kendall has completed internships in museums and private studios across the UK and Europe. Her research also includes technical studies into Willem van de Velde the Younger and Anthony van Dyck, and her long-term personal project tracing the legacies of Colonialism, Slavery and Exploitation... Read more

Company Yale Center for British Art
Position Assistant Paintings Conservator
Location New Haven, CT, USA

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Maria Fredericks

Company The Morgan Library & Museum, Thaw Conservation Center
Position Conservator
Location New York, NY

Ashley Freeman

Company Getty Conservation Institute
Position Associate Scientist
Location Los Angeles, California

Rachel Freeman-[PA]

Rachel Freeman is an Assistant Paper Conservator at the Art Institute of Chicago. As the museumâ€™s sole conservator dedicated to the treatment of Asian prints and paintings, she has been involved with the conservation of Japanese prints, East Asian scrolls and screens, ancient and modern Indian and Islamic paintings, and thangka. She is a veteran of several gallery renovations and is involved with climate monitoring and storage planning. Rachel came to the Art Institute as an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in 2005. Previously she worked at the Balboa Art Conservation Center in San Diego, California... Read more

Company Art Institute of Chicago
Position Associate Paper Conservator
Location Chicago, IL

Elle D Friedberg

Elle Friedberg is the Pre-Program Intern at the Worcester Art Museum in Worcester, MA. Previously, she has held internships at the Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute, National Gallery of Art, and Smithsonian National Museum of American History in the greater DC area. Friedberg received her B.A. from Wellesley College (Wellesley, MA) in 2017 with a double major in Chemistry and Studio Art.

Company Worcester Art Museum
Position Pre-Program Intern
Location Worcester, MA

Susanne Friend

Company ConservArt Associates, Inc.
Position Painting Conservator
Location Culver City, CA

Christine Frohnert

Since 2012, Christine is a partner of bek&frohnert LLC. She is also a Research Scholar and Time-based Media Art Program Director of the first Time-based Media Conservation Program in the US at the Conservation Center of the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. She was the inaugural Judith Praska Distinguished Visiting Professor teaching a seminar course Art with a Plug – The Conservation of Artworks containing Motion, Sound, Light, Moving Images and Interactivity in Fall 2012. Christine continued to teach TBM conservation foundation classes, organized workshops and co-organized the conferences... Read more

Company Bek & Frohnert LLC
Position Partner/Conservator of Contemporary Art
Location New York, NY

Claire Fry

Claire Fry is a Preventive Conservator with Spencer & Fry Ltd. After training at Cardiff University, she worked for the National Trust and English Heritage before setting up Spencer & Fry in 2015. She advises and supports a variety of heritage locations on how to safely accommodate and manage filming and advocates for the benefits of conservators working with film crews in historic properties.

Company Spencer & Fry
Position Preventive Conservation Consultant
Location St Albans, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

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