Christopher Augerson
Augerson Art Conservation Services
845-677-5231
[email protected]
www.augersonartconservation.com

• Disaster Preparedness Planning
• Environmental Monitoring and Controls
• Integrated Pest Management
• Museum Policies & Procedures
• Textiles
• Furniture
• Paintings
• Decorative Objects
• Archaeological and Ethnographic Objects
• Glass/Ceramics
• Metal
• Collection Storage Solutions
• General Site Assessment
• Experience working with small museums/sites (under $99K/year budget)
• Lighting
• Artwork on paper

Christopher Augerson has conducted conservation projects for clients ranging from small historic houses in New York State to the Palace of Versailles. After working as a conservation assistant in paper conservation at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, he retrained in Objects Conservation and holds a Masters in Art Conservation from Buffalo State College in the latter. He held advanced fellowships at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Saint Louis Art Museum and The Belgian Royal Institute of Artistic Heritage. He has served as a collections surveyor for the Heritage Preservation Collections Assessment Program (CAP).


​Brett Barry
Silver Hollow Audio
845-688-7333
[email protected]
www.SilverHollowAudio.com

• Audio digitization
• Preservation

Brett Barry is experienced with audio digitization projects; conversion of audio tapes to digital formats for preservation and access. He conducted a series of grant-funded "Oral History Audio Digitization Training Workshops" for the Southeastern NY Library Resources Council. Brett has in-house resources for archival-quality digitization.


Susan Blakney
West Lake Conservators
315 685 8534
[email protected]
www.westlakeconservators.com

• Disaster Preparedness Planning
• Environmental Monitoring and Controls
• Paintings, Collection Storage Solutions
• General Site Assessment
• Experience working with small museums/sites (under $99K/year budget)

Susan Blakney is a Senior Paintings Conservator and fourth generation CNY native with a passion for history, art, and culture.  After college and painting conservation training in London, England, she returned home and established her business, West Lake Conservators in Skaneateles, NY.  She has taken workshops and courses annually to augment her preservation knowledge and keep abreast of new developments in the field. Recognized as a Fellow in the AIC and the IIC, Blakney is now Chief Conservator with a staff of 11 mixed preservation specialists who treat murals, historic theater curtains, painted objects, works on paper, photographs, textiles, frames, and more. West Lake’s services include conservation treatments, documentation, collection management, condition surveys, environmental monitoring, general surveys, preservation/technical framing, and disaster response and recovery. Susan was among the first AIC-CERT, now known as NEH, trained cultural disaster responders and was deployed to Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Ike and Haiti’s earthquake.  She actively contributes to the conservation field with research, poster sessions, publications, lectures and hosting workshops, and her professional contacts and cumulative experience assisting collections of emerging, small and mid-sized museums, historic societies and sites, colleges, universities, municipalities and private owners provides a wealth of knowledge for problem solving.


​Erica Blumenfeld
Collections and Exhibitions
845-332-4617
[email protected]

• Disaster Preparedness Planning
• Museum Policies & Procedures
• General Site Assessment
• Experience working with small museums/sites (under $99K/year budget)
• Artwork on paper

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​Donia Conn
Donia Conn Conservation
315-396-3326
[email protected]
Doniaconn.com

• Disaster Preparedness Planning
• Environmental Monitoring and Controls
• Integrated Pest Management
• General Site Assessment
• Experience working with small museums/sites (under $99K/year budget)
• Artwork on paper
• Photographs
• Books

Elena Cordova
Northeast Document Conservation Center
978-470-1010
[email protected]
www.nedcc.org

• Disaster Preparedness Planning
• Environmental Monitoring and Controls
• Integrated Pest Management
• Museum Policies & Procedures
• Collection Storage Solutions
• General Site Assessment
• Experience working with small museums/sites (under $99K/year budget)
• Lighting
• Artwork on paper

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Robert Cutler
Independent Consultant
9178260826
[email protected]

• Museum Policies & Procedures
• General Site Assessment
• Generation of Earned Income
• Management Advice re Corporate Structure
• Audio Interpretative Services
• Marketing
• Merchandising

Since 1971, Cutler has helped visited sites generate substantial new streams of earned revenue. Principally, he has managed companies which provide audio tour services to the world's leading museums and sites. He has negotiated and signed long term, full service contracts with, and then designed, budgeted, set up the operations, hired and trained managers and on site staffs, and marketed audio tour programs for a wide variety of major museums and galleries. 


Starlyn D'Angelo
Independent Consultant
518-929-0503
[email protected]

• Environmental Monitoring and Controls
• Museum Policies & Procedures
• Textiles
• Furniture
• Paintings
• Decorative Objects
• Archaeological and Ethnographic Objects
• Glass/Ceramics
• Metal
• Collection Storage Solutions
• General Site Assessment
• Curator
• Experience working with small museums/sites (under $99K/year budget)

Starlyn holds a MA from the Cooperstown Graduate Program and has over 18 years of experience. She has worked as a curator and collections manager and can help identify realistic collections storage solutions, draft collections policies, guide rehousing and documentation projects, identify funding sources, and help plan for curatorial needs.  


Douglas Emilio
Architectural Preservation Studio, DPC
212.477.7976 ext 221
[email protected]
www.preservationstudio.com

• General Site Assessment
• Architectural Preservation and Conservation

Architectural Preservation Studio, DPC is a women-owned design professional-service corporation founded by a collaboration of architects, preservationists, and material conservators. We are one of the nation’s leaders in historic preservation, with advanced expertise in building conservation technologies, architectural restoration, and exterior envelope repairs. The professional staff of the studio has been involved in some of the most important preservation projects of the last two decades, including Frank Lloyd Wright’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Fallingwater, the historic Breakers and Château-sur-Mer mansions in Newport, RI and Louis Sullivan’s Bayard-Condict building in NYC. Additional projects include theaters, academic structures, courthouses, museums and other iconic structures. We are a certified WBE in the City of New York, the State of New York, The Port Authority of NY & NJ, and with the WBENC. Our evolution: Founded in 1889 in St. Paul, MN, the architectural firm, Reed & Stem, moved to NYC in 1903 upon winning the competition to design Grand Central Terminal. Later known as Fellheimer & Wagner, then as Wank Adams Slavin Associates (WASA), the preservation group was founded in 1979 as a department of the WASA architecture and engineering firm. Now known as Architectural Preservation Studio, DPC, we established ourselves as a separate firm in 2015, dedicated to the preservation of historic and contemporary buildings.
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Carolyn Frisa
Works on Paper, LLC
802-460-1149
[email protected]
www.works-on-paper.net

• Disaster Preparedness Planning
• Environmental Monitoring and Controls
• Integrated Pest Management
• Collection Storage Solutions
• General Site Assessment
• Experience working with small museums/sites (under $99K/year budget)
• Artwork on paper
• Photographs
• Wallpaper

As owner and head conservator at Works on Paper, Carolyn Frisa has worked with museums and other cultural institutions on numerous grant funded projects with a focus on collections care and conservation. She specializes in the conservation of art on paper, historic wallpaper, photographs and archives and has been a Professional Associate of AIC since 2007.
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​Frances Harrell
Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC)
978-470-1010 ext 244
[email protected]
​www.nedcc.org

• Disaster Preparedness Planning
• Environmental Monitoring and Controls
• Integrated Pest Management, Museum Policies & Procedures
• General Site Assessment
• Experience working with small museums/sites (under $99K/year budget)
• Archival collections
• Digital Preservation
• Audiovisual Materials
• Digitization

Cynthia M. Koch
Independent Consultant
845-266-3292
[email protected]

• Museum Policies & Procedures
• Collection Storage Solutions
• General Site Assessment
• Experience working with small museums/sites (under $99K/year budget)
• Artwork on paper
• Public programming and interpretation
• Historic preservation

Karen Lund
Independent Consultant
631.765.5949
[email protected]

• Experience working with small museums/sites (under $99K/year budget)
• Project Management
• Strategic Planning

Since 2005, Lund has worked in small museums and historical societies as an executive director, grant writer, and project manager. She has engaged boards in strategic planning and has developed community and museum education programs. 


Carl Mehling
Independent Consultant
718-483-5498
[email protected]

• Collection Storage Solutions
• Fossils

I have been at the American Museum of Natural History since 1990 and I am currently a Senior Scientific Assistant taking care of the world’s largest collection of dinosaur fossils plus early synapsids and tetrapods, pterosaurs, crocodiles, turtles and marine reptiles. I’m interested in all aspects of paleontology, especially the fringe areas that normally get little attention, including bizarre modes of fossil preservation, anomalous discoveries, and oddities within the history of paleontology. I collect fossils of all kinds, globally, and have written or edited a number of pieces on fossils, both scholarly and popular. In my spare time (aside from fossils) my interests include linguistics, lettering, wordplay, and food in all of its various forms. 


​Amy Mincher
Independent Consultant
802-922-5510
[email protected]

• Disaster Preparedness Planning
• Collection Storage Solutions
• General Site Assessment
• Curator
• Experience working with small museums/sites (under $99K/year budget)
• Digitization
• Collections Management Systems

Emily Phillips
Phillips Art Conservation Studio, LLC
518-963-4555
[email protected]
www.phillipsconservation.com

• Disaster Preparedness Planning
• Environmental Monitoring and Controls
• Integrated Pest Management
• Paintings
• Collection Storage Solutions
• Experience working with small museums/sites (under $99K/year budget)

Erin Richardson
Frank and Glory (formerly Erin Richardson Consulting)
518.577.0186
[email protected]
www.frankandglory.com/

• Museum Policies & Procedures
• Textiles
• Paintings
• Collection Storage Solutions
• General Site Assessment
• Curator
• Experience working with small museums/sites (under $99K/year budget)
• Project Management
• Database selection/implementation

Erin Richardson specializes in sustainable collection management practices that build capacity for museums. These include collection management policies, scope of collection revision, deaccessioning, abandoned property resolution, and project management, among others. With over 20 years of experience in museum collections, Erin specializes in textiles, photography, archives, agricultural collections, and large multi-disciplinary collection projects.

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Deborah G Rossi
Consulting Curator
203-376-8667
[email protected]

• Disaster Preparedness Planning
• Environmental Monitoring and Controls
• Integrated Pest Management
• Museum Policies & Procedures
• Textiles, Furniture
• Paintings
• Decorative Objects
• Glass/Ceramics
• Metal
• Collection Storage Solutions
• General Site Assessment
• Curator
• Experience working with small museums/sites (under $99K/year budget)

Debora Rossi has more than 25 years of experience as a curator in small museums from both the perspective of staff as well as a consultant. She has done everything from write and revise policies to exhibit planning, design, and implementation and cleaning up a collection after a major water event. Professional standards are a guiding light in what she does and she enjoys the challenge of figuring out ways to apply them in challenging and less than ideal situations. 
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Gwen Spicer
Spicer Art Conservation, LLC
518-765-2142
[email protected]
www.spicerart.com

• Disaster Preparedness Planning
• Environmental Monitoring and Controls
• Integrated Pest Management
• Textiles, Furniture
• Decorative Objects
• Archaeological and Ethnographic Objects
• Collection Storage Solutions
• General Site Assessment
• Experience working with small museums/sites (under $99K/year budget)
• Lighting
• Artwork on paper
• Upholstered furnishings

Gwen Spicer, principal and owner of Spicer Art Conservation is a Fellow member of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC), and a Flag Research Fellow of the Flag Research Center. She is also a member of the International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (IIC), the International Council of Museums (ICOM), the Institute of Conservation (ICON), and the Association of Registrars and Collection Specialists (ARCS). In her work at Spicer Art Conservation, LLC Gwen Spicer provides professional, expert, and unparalleled conservation services. She specializes in textile conservation, objects conservation, upholstery conservation and the conservation of works of art on paper. She has been caring for artifacts from museums, institutions, historical societies, state agencies, businesses, collectors and private owners since 1995.

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Deborah Trupin
Trupin Conservation Services, LLC
518-414-1414
[email protected]

• Disaster Preparedness Planning
• Environmental Monitoring and Controls
• Integrated Pest Management
• Museum Policies & Procedures
• Textiles
• Collection Storage Solutions
• General Site Assessment
• Experience working with small museums/sites (under $99K/year budget)

Deborah Lee Trupin (Trupin Conservation Services, LLC) received an MA in art history and Diploma in Conservation from New York University's Institute of Fine Arts, Conservation Center. From 1986 to 2015, she was Textile and Upholstery Conservator for New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation’s Bureau of Historic Sites (Peebles Island) in Waterford, NY, where she was responsible for the conservation of the textile and upholstery collections of the 35 state run historic sites, advised and trained site staff in preventive conservation, and supervised the New York State Battle Flag Preservation Project.  From 1999 – 2011, Ms. Trupin taught flag conservation and upholstery conservation at the Finnish national conservation school. In 2004, she was appointed as the American consulting textile conservator for NYU’s Villa La Pietra in Florence, Italy. She is an assistant adjunct professor in FIT’s Fashion and Textiles Studies MA program.  Her main interests in conservation include preventive conservation, tapestries, upholstered furniture, flags, historic house museum issues, and the history of conservation/restoration. She has lectured and published widely on these topics.   Ms. Trupin is a Fellow of the American Institute for Conservation.
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Carol S. Ward
Independent Consultant
914-886-2940
[email protected]

• Museum Policies & Procedures
• Furniture, Paintings
• Decorative Objects
• Glass/Ceramics
• Collection Storage Solutions
• General Site Assessment
• Curator
• Experience working with small museums/sites (under $99K/year budget) 
• Museum Education/Programming

Carol S. Ward has over 10 years of collaborative leadership in non-profit management, financial oversight, fundraising, strategic planning, Board relationships and grant-winning cultural program development. Ms. Ward is an art historian with her BA from Mary Washington College, and two Masters Degrees, her first in Museum Education from the College of New Rochelle, and her second in Art History from Hunter College.
She has presented the keynote address at CLHO (Connecticut League of Historic Organizations) on connecting an historic site to the community, the annual NYCMER (New York City Museum Educators Roundtable) conferences on bringing contemporary art into an historic house museum and has also recently spoken at Mary Washington College about the future of careers in art history and the museum field. Articles she has written have been published in The Historic House Trust journal, the American Alliance of Museums Magazine, Antiques Weekly and catalogs for the Bruce Museum, Morris-Jumel Mansion and Keno Auctions. Her book "Visions of America: The Morris-Jumel Mansion" was published in 2015 and she has recently appeared in the documentary on the making of the hit musical "Hamilton."


Grace Zimmermann
Grace Zimmermann, APR
914-656-8569
[email protected]

• Experience working with small museums/sites (under $99K/year budget)
• Audio: oral history
• Public relations and/or Programming

Grace Zimmermann, APR, is an accomplished public relations specialist experienced in thinking creatively and executing resourcefully. While her career experience is diversified in the private, public and not-for-profit sectors, most recently her work has been for a Somers Historical Society, Somers, NY, a local historical society located in the Hudson Valley with two collections, one of international and national significance.
Ms. Zimmermann's skills include writing/editing for written and audio platforms, public relations program development, grant writing, educational program development, special event creation and implementation, oral history collection, accession/deaccessioning and fund raising.   
Over the past 12 years of involvement with Somers Historical Society, Ms. Zimmermann has helped guide the Society to garnering a Connecting to Collections Greater Hudson Heritage Network NYSCA restoration grant (2016) and numerous "Awards of Excellence" from the Greater Hudson Heritage Network (2005, 2014, two in 2015) for programs she developed or undertook for the Society.