Donia Conn
Donia Conn Conservation
315-396-3326
bookconservator@yahoo.com
Doniaconn.com

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

Donia Conn is an independent preservation and collection care consultant for small and mid-sized cultural heritage institutions with over 25 years of experience. Ms. Conn trained as a book and paper conservator and is a Professional Associate of the American Institute for Conservation (AIC). She earned her BA in Mathematics from St. Olaf College and her MLIS with Advanced Certificate in Conservation from the University of Texas-Austin. Previously, Donia has worked for the Northeast Document Conservation Center, Northwestern University, and Syracuse University and has been consulting with institutions big and small across NYS for the last 20 years.


Michelle Henry
Historian/Archivist
814-572-0206 
michellehenry2028@yahoo.com

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

With another museum professional, Michelle Henry implemented a training program for a consortium of seven small historical museums in Chautauqua County. With $26,000 in grant funds, she offered collection management instruction, policy development, and hands-on training in accessioning, cataloging, collection storage and preservation, and Past Perfect software. Archival supplies, environmental monitoring equipment, software and shelving were purchased and we worked along side the consortium members to develop/improve storage areas, rehouse collections, and improve collection management practices. This project is ongoing and has proven to be very beneficial to participating museums.

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Erin Richardson
Frank and Glory 
518.577.0186
erin@FrankandGlory.com
www.frankandglory.com/

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

Erin has been working in museums since 1992. She’s witty, fun, smart, ethical, and deadly serious about museum collections as educational and cultural assets with high opportunity costs. It is not free to keep an artifact, artwork, manuscript, or publication forever. She challenges museums and libraries to think carefully about investing resources in collections that are relevant for, and representative of, their current and future audiences so that they may support the museum’s mission.


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.


​Heidi Bamford - Heidi Ziemer
​Archivist/Outreach & Member Services
716-989-8037
Ddum60@gmail.com

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

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.
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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).