Eugenie Milroy
​A.M. Art Conservation, LLC
917.519.9479
eugenie@amartconservation.com
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

Eugenie Milroy is an objects conservator and Professional Associate member of the American Institute for Conservation (AIC) with more than 25 years of experience in collection care and art conservation. Before becoming a conservator in private practice, she worked at the American Museum of Natural History, The Met and The Brooklyn Museum. As a partner at AM Art Conservation LLC she helps museums, historic homes and individuals care for their collections via conservation treatment, collection management, and other preservation activities. Eugenie has been a board member of the Alliance for Response NYC for over a decade and was trained as a heritage response team member by the group. Alliance for Response helps cultural institutions strengthen their emergency preparedness through training and partnerships with local government and first responders. Eugenie has given workshops and training in numerous collection care activities including rehousing and labeling of collections.  She carried out her studies in Art History and Conservation at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University and Barnard College, Columbia University and did her internship at the Cloisters Division of The Met. ​


Rachael Arenstein
A.M. Art Conservation, LLC
917-796-1764
rachael@amartconservation.com
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.


Carol S. Ward
Outside the Lines Consultant
914-886-2940
outsidethelinesgallery@gmail.com
​outsidethelinesconsult.com

• Disaster Preparedness Planning
• 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
• Lighting
• Artwork on Paper

Carol S. Ward has over 20 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."
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Luisa Casella
West Lake Conservators
585-281-3747
luisa.casella@gmail.com
www.westlakeconservators.com

• 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)
• Artwork on paper
• Photographs

Luisa Casella (she/her) trained in Art Conservation at the Instituto Politécnico de Tomar in Portugal. She was a Fellow of the Advanced Residency Program in Photograph Conservation at George Eastman House/ Image Permanence Institute, and the inaugural Research Scholar in Photograph Conservation at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. She has held photograph conservator positions at Luis Pavão, Lda., Harry Ransom Center and West Lake Conservators. Luisa is a Fellow of AIC.


Nadia Ghannam
Nadia Ghannam, Fine Art Conservation
917-868-7295
nadia.ghannam@gmail.com
nadiaghannamartconservation.com

• Museum Policies & Procedures
• Paintings
• Collection Storage Solutions
• Experience working with small museums/sites (under $99K/year budget)
• Lighting
• Condition Reporting

Nadia Ghannam, Paintings Conservator holds an MFA from Cornell University and an MA in Art Conservation from Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada. She specializes in the conservation of modern, contemporary and historical paintings. She is a consulting conservator at DIA Art Foundation and has worked in the conservation departments of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, National Academy Museum, American Academy of Arts and Letters, Metropolitan Museum of Art-Antonio Ratti Center, among other public and private collections. Her Studio is located in the lower Hudson Valley, NY.

Deborah G Rossi
Consulting Curator
203-376-8667
dgrossi1907@gmail.com

• 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)

Deborah 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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Deborah Trupin
Trupin Conservation Services, LLC
518-414-1414
trupinconservation@gmail.com

• 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.


​Geneva Ikle
West Lake Conservators
315-685-8534
geneva@westlakeconservators.com
www.westlakeconservators.com

• 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)
• Artwork on paper
• Photographs

Geneva earned a Master of Art Conservation (MAC 2016) degree from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario with a specialization in Works on Paper. Geneva has long been interested in photographs, so while at Queen’s she was able to get hands-on experience with photograph conservation in addition to conservation of works on paper. During her studies, she completed internships at the National Archives and Records Administration and at the Library of Congress. After graduating from Queen’s, Geneva briefly started up her own private practice in Wilmington, NC before being hired at ECS Conservation in Greensboro, NC as a Paper Conservator. Geneva has experience treating a wide variety of objects including documents, art on paper, maps, posters, and photographic materials. She is also an Associate member of the American Institute for Conservation (AIC).

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Nathan Sutton
West Lake Conservators, Ltd.
315-685-8534
nsutton@westlakeconservators.com
westlakeconservators.com

• Paintings

Nathan’s work in paintings conservation has focused primarily on 19th and 20th Century American and European art, ranging from easel paintings, panel paintings, murals and frames, with treatments ranging from in-depth structural processes to cosmetic or aesthetic repairs, and from short, localized projects to multi-month, multi-painting or multi-mural work as a project manager, conservator or as a team member among collaborating conservators. He has worked as a paintings conservator at West Lake Conservators since 2017, providing service for private collectors, museums, universities, religious organizations, historical societies and historical collections. He is a graduate of the Buffalo State College Graduate Program in Art Conservation, specializing in the conservation of paintings and completed internships with Whitten and Proctor Fine Art and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art before owing and operating his own painting conservation business from 2010 to 2016.


Chiara Kuhns
West Lake Conservators
315-685-8534
chiara@westlakeconservators.com
westlakeconservators.com

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

Chiara is an artist, an art historian, and a paintings and fresco conservator. She is an ardent advocate of the arts and believes in the importance of exposing, educating and preserving the primary sources of our world’s history. Born in Florence, Italy, Chiara has taken advantage of the resources that this “mecca” of the art world has to offer. In Florence, she received a BA in Art History and completed a dual Masters degree in Museology and Conservation of Paintings and Frescoes. In 2002 Chiara taught a course on “The History and Art History of Florence” at Gonzaga University in Florence. Chiara has served on conservation teams in Florence, New York City, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. In 1999 she joined the team at West Lake Conservators in Skaneateles. She has been a dynamic member of West Lake Conservators, assisting with the organization and hosting of workshops. She is a liaison to our colleagues in Italy and our resident expert on Italian Renaissance and European paintings.