Harriet Irgang Alden
ArtCareNYC, a Rustin Levenson Co.
212-594-8862
artcarenyc@gmail.com
www.artcareconservation.com

• Paintings
• Collection Storage Solutions
• General Site Assessment
• Experience working with small museums/sites (under $99K/year budget)

Harriet Irgang Alden has been working as a paintings conservator for more than 30 years. During that time she has had the pleasure of working with several small museums and art galleries: Studio Museum in Harlem; Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University of New Jersey; Grey Art Gallery, New York University; and the Dahesh Museum of Art. In addition to performing condition surveys and conservation treatments for these institutions, she has also carried out General Site Assessments for Grey Art Gallery and the Dahesh Museum of Art under the auspices of IMLS.

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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.


​Christopher Augerson
Augerson Art Conservation Services
845-677-5231
chris@augersonartconservation.com
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
brett@silverhollowaudio.com
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.
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Susan Blakney
West Lake Conservators
315-685-8534
susan@westlakeconservators.com
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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Erica Blumenfeld
Collections and Exhibitions
845-332-4617
ericablumenfeld@hotmail.com

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

​Elena Cordova
Northeast Document Conservation Center
978-470-1010
ecordova@nedcc.org
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

Kathy Craughwell-Varda
Independent Consultant
203-241-0618
vardaconsulting@aol.com

• Disaster Preparedness Planning
• Museum Policies & Procedures
• Textiles
• Decorative Objects
• Collection Storage Solutions
• General Site Assessment
• Curator
• Experience working with small museums/sites (under $99K/year budget)

Robert Cutler
Independent Consultant
9178260826
rbcutler@mac.com

• 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.


​Gabriel Dunn
unDunn Art Services
716-863-8917
info@undunnartservices.com
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

Douglas Emilio
Architectural Preservation Studio, DPC
212.477.7976 ext 221
emiliod@preservationstudio.com
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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Nadia Ghannam
Nadia Ghannam, Fine Art Conservation
917-868-7295
nadia.ghannam@gmail.com
www.paintingconservation.tumblr.com

• Disaster Preparedness Planning
• Environmental Monitoring and Controls
• Museum Policies & Procedures
• Paintings
• Collection Storage Solutions
• Experience working with small museums/sites (under $99K/year budget)
• Lighting
• Condition Reporting
• Traveling Exhibitions
• Lab Design

Nadia Ghannam, Principal Conservator at Nadia Ghannam Fine Art Conservation, holds an MFA from Cornell University and an MA in Art Conservation from Queen’s University, Ontario Canada.  She has worked in the conservation departments of The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art-Antonio Ratti Center, The Guggenheim Museum, American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the National Academy Museum.  In her work at Nadia Ghannam Fine Art Conservation she offers painting conservation and restoration services to museums, galleries, corporate and private art collections.  She provides on-site consultation and collection assessments that include condition reports, detailed treatment proposals, conservation and restoration treatments, (cleaning, lining, tear repair, mold remediation, retouching and varnishing), framing and environmental monitoring.


Frances Harrell
Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC)
978-470-1010 ext 244
fharrell@nedcc.org
​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

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Alexander Katlan
Alexander Katlan Conservator Inc.
718-445-7458
alexkatlan@hotmail.com
www.alexanderkatlan.com

• Museum Policies & Procedures
• Paintings

Mr. Katlan, of Alexander Katlan Conservator, Inc. has established a fully equipped conservation laboratory to provide in-depth museum quality work, documentation of fine paintings and research. He has done conservation work on European and American paintings including microscopic fiber and pigment analysis including Infra Red Reflectography. His laboratory also has available vacuum lining tables, biotical microscope and suction cold table. He has participated in micro-chemical analysis and art conservation microscopy courses with Dr Walter McCrone of the McCrone research Institute, Chicago Illinois. He was awarded in 1979, his Master’s of Fine Art Degree in painting conservation from Rosary College, Villa Schifanoia, Florence, Italy and a Master’s of Art Degree in Art History from Queens College, City University of New York, in 1987.
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Wayne Lempka
Art Collections Manager
845-677-3847
Jlempka1@aol.com

• Environmental Monitoring and Controls
• Museum Policies & Procedures
• Paintings
• Decorative Objects
• Metal
• Collection Storage Solutions
• General Site Assessment
• Curator
• Experience working with small museums/sites (under $99K/year budget)
• Artwork on paper
• Photography

Wayne Lempka is Art Collections Manager of the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at the State University of New York at New Paltz where he is responsible for the care of over 6,000 objects in the museum's permanent collection. Mr. Lempka has been an independent curator of numerous exhibitions and has recently curated the following exhibitions at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art: Written in Memory – Portraits of the Holocaust; Beat & Beyond: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg; Thoughts of Home – Photographs for the Center for Photography at Woodstock’s Permanent Print Collection. Prior to his position at the Dorsky Museum, Mr. Lempka was Curator of Education at Storm King Art Center and Executive Director of Barrett House Galleries/Dutchess County Art Association. Prior to this, he held positions at the Museum of American Folk Art and the Cooper-Hewitt National Museum of Design, (Smithsonian Institute) and the Chase Manhattan Bank Corporate Art Program. For the past 22 years Mr. Lempka has been lecturer in the Department of Art History at Marist College teaching such courses as The History of Photography and Museum Studies. He has also taught in the art history department at SUNY New Paltz. Mr. Lempka’s specialty is 19th century British photography and he has written and lectured widely on art and photographic topics. Mr. Lempka holds a BFA degree in Fine Arts and Art History from Pratt Institute School of Art and an MA in Art History & Museum Studies from New York University. He is currently pursuing his PhD at New York University. 
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Karen Lund
Independent Consultant
631.765.5949
karen.lund@aol.com

• 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. 
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Carl Mehling
Independent Consultant
718-483-5498
cosm69@gmail.com

• 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. 


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)

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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Kerith Koss Schrager
The Found Object Art Conservation
212-920-5535
conservation.objects@gmail.com
www.the-foundobject.com

• Environmental Monitoring and Controls
• Integrated Pest Management
• Decorative Objects
• Archaeological and Ethnographic Objects
• Glass/Ceramics
• Metal
• Collection Storage Solutions
• Experience working with small museums/sites (under $99K/year budget)
• Health & Safety

Kerith Koss Schrager, objects conservator and owner of The Found Object Art Conservation, provides conservation and preservation services for fine and decorative arts, historical, ethnographic and archaeological collections in the greater New York area. She has worked with institutions such as Historic Hudson Valley, the Brooklyn Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the FreerǀSackler Galleries (Smithsonian Institution), the Field Museum, and the Shelburne Museum.
As part of her private practice, she conducts condition assessments and conservation treatments and consults on collections management and preventative care, including exhibition and loan requirements, establishing and maintaining environmental conditions and Integrated Pest Management protocols.  Kerith regularly publishes and presents on topics related to object care and health and safety, which are tailored to collection professionals.
Kerith is a graduate of the Conservation Center of the Institute of Fine Art at New York University.  She is a Professional Associate of the American Institute for Conservation (AIC) where she also serves as co-Chair of their Health & Safety Committee and as the Vice-Chair of the Conservators in Private Practice Specialty Group.
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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.


Carol S. Ward
Independent Consultant
914-886-2940
csward08@gmail.com

• 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
gracezmann@gmail.com

• 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.