Rachael Arenstein
A.M. Art Conservation, LLC
917-796-1764
[email protected]
www.amartconservation.com

• Disaster Preparedness Planning
• Environmental Monitoring and Controls
• Integrated Pest Management
• Museum Policies & Procedures
• 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

Rachael Perkins Arenstein is a Professional Associate member of the American Institute for Conservation (AIC) with over 20 years of museum and conservation experience. She has worked at the Smithsonian 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 is from the University of London where she studied at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. She was in private practice for four years before co-founding A.M. Art Conservation, LLC in 2009. The practice focuses on conservation treatment, preservation consulting and collection management for institutions of all sizes.  In addition, she is active in several professional organizations including positions as the e-Editor for the AIC and the Co-Chair of the Integrated Pest Management Working Group which manages the museumpests.net website.


​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).

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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.
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Luisa Casella
West Lake Conservators
585-281-3747
[email protected]
www.westlakeconservators.com

• Disaster Preparedness Planning
• Environmental Monitoring and Controls
• Museum Policies & Procedures
• Collection Storage Solutions
• Artwork on paper
• Photographs

Luisa trained in Art Conservation at the Instituto Politécnico de Tomar in Portugal, specializing in Photograph and Paper Conservation  through internships at the Arquivo Fotográfico da Câmara Municipal de Lisboa and at the Biblioteca Nacional de Lisboa. From 2000 to 2002 She studied photography at the Ar.Co - Centro de Arte e Comunicação Visual. After completing her studies in 1996, she worked as a paper conservator at the Biblioteca Nacional de Lisboa and as a photograph conservator at the Instituto Politécnico de Tomar. In 1998 she joined the staff of Luis Pavão, Limitada, as a photograph conservator. For the following 8 years she worked in conservation treatment projects of large-scale photograph collections in several museums, archives and cultural institutions in Portugal, a work that entailed surveys, cleaning and rehousing of prints, database design, digitizing and database description, design and implementation of proper environmental solutions such as cold storage vaults. She was also instructor in a number of workshops for photograph collection care professionals.

In 2005 she was awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship of the Advanced Residency Program in Photograph Conservation at George Eastman House/ Image Permanence Institute in Rochester, NY.  Her capstone project was the design and implementation of the website Notes on Photographs, an online resource on photograph characterization and conservation. In 2007 this website was awarded a 2-year National Leadership Grant for Museums from the Institute of Museum and Library Services for further development. In 2007 she was awarded the first Research Scholarship in Photograph Conservation at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The scholarship had the duration of three years during which Luisa researched the light-fading behavior of autochrome dyes under anoxic conditions. During this period I continued ongoing research on cleaning of face-mounted photographs as well as taking part of the daily activities of the photograph conservation lab - treatments, environmental monitoring and condition reports, preparation of objects for exhibition. From April to November 2011 she worked as Photograph Conservator at Harry Ransom Center in the University of Texas at Austin where she had the opportunity to focus on conservation treatment of objects from large panoramas to cased objects such as ambrotypes and tintypes. In November 2013 she joined Westlake Conservators. She is a Professional Associate member of the American Institute for Conservation.


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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​Gabriel Dunn
unDunn Art Services
716-863-8917
[email protected]
www.undunnartservices.com

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

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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

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. 


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)

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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.


Janna Rudler
607-772-9179
[email protected]

• Museum Policies & Procedures
• Archaeological and Ethnographic Objects
• General Site Assessment
• Experience working with small museums/sites (under $99K/year budget)

For 15 years, Janna Rudler worked as a field archaeologist and lab director for the Public Archaeology Facility at Binghamton University. For the past 5 years as Director of Development at the Bundy Museum, she has helped grow the small historic house museum into a fully chartered museum that houses collections of antiques, art, clocks, and African artifacts. 
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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.