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The Conservation Center


The Conservation Center is the oldest degree granting conservation program in North America. Since 1960, over 300 conservators have graduated to become part of our esteemed alumni community. Here we are proud to share our alumni who work in private practice. Alumni are organized by specialization and can be contacted directly for more information about their work.

Books

  • Saira Haqqi

    Location: New York metropolitan area
    Specialty: Books


  • Caroline Rieger

    Location: New York metropolitan area
    Specialty: Books, paper, documents

Objects

  • Barbara Applebaum

    Location: New York, NY
    Specialty: Objects


  • Monica Berry

    Location: Saratoga Springs, NY & Cambridge, MA
    Specialty: Objects


  • Melanie Brussat

    Location: New York, NY
    Specialty: Objects, Sculpture (stone, metals, wood, modern materials, painted sculpture, ceramics, enamels, glass)


  • Caroline Carlsmith

    Location: New York, NY
    Speciality: Contemporary sculpture, installation art, and time-based media


  • Andrea Chevalier

    Location: The Midwest, Ohio and surrounding states
    Specialty: Paintings, objects


  • Alisa Eagleston-Cieslewicz

    Location: Palo Alto, CA
    Speciality: Objects


  • Emily B. Frank

    Location: New York, NY
    Speciality: Objects, Sculpture, Archaeological, Contemporary


  • Diana Galante

    Location: Orlando, FL
    Specialty: Objects Conservation & Preventive Conservation


  • Leslie Gat

    Location: New York, NY
    Specialty: Objects


  • Rebecca Gridley

    Location: New York, NY
    Speciality: Objects


  • Lisa Goldberg

    Location: Corning, NY
    Speciality: Objects


  • Tara Hornung

    Location: Santa Fe, NM
    Objects, preventive


  • James Hughes

    Location: NYC & Westchester, NY
    Speciality: Objects


  • Hiroko Kariya

    Location: Egypt, Turkey, Qatar
    Specialty: Archaeoloigcal site conservation, stone heritage objects, project management and training


  • Lia Kramer

    Location: New York, NY
    Speciality: Time based media


  • Kerith Koss Schrager

    Location: New York metropolitan area
    Specialty: Objects, general collection care


  • Rosa Lowinger

    Location: Los Angeles, CA and Miami, FL
    Specialty: Objects, sculpture, outdoor sculpture, architectural finishes


  • Meghan Thumm Mackey

    Location: Madison, Wisconsin
    Specialty: Objects


  • Sarah Montonchaikul

    Location: Washington, DC
    Speciality: Objects, archaeological materials, modern & contemporary, outdoor sculpture


  • Sarah Nunberg

    Location: NYC, national, international
    Specialty: Objects


  • Kent Severson

    Location: Rancho Cordova, California
    Specialty: Objects


  • Corey Smith Riley

    Location: Raleigh, North Carolina
    Specialty: Objects


  • Erin Toomey

    Location: New York metropolitan area
    Specialty: Objects


  • Sari Uricheck

    Location: New York, NY
    Specialty: Objects

Paintings

  • Andrea Chevalier

    Location: The Midwest, Ohio and surrounding states
    Specialty: Paintings, objects


  • Kristin Egan

    Location: San Francisco, CA
    Speciality: Paintings


  • Jean Dommermuth

    Location: New York metropolitan area
    Specialty: Old Master paintings, modern and contemporary paintings, murals/wall paintings


  • Annika Svendsen Finne

    Location: New York, NY
    Speciality: Modern and contemporary paintings


  • Heather Galloway

    Location: Cleveland, OH
    Specialty: Paintings and painted surfaces


  • Claire Gerhard

    Location: Washington, DC
    Specialty: Modern and contemporary paintings


  • Eric Gordon

    Location: Baltimore, MD
    Specialty: Paintings


  • Michael Heidelberg

    Location: New York, NY
    Speciality: Old Master, Impressionist and Modernist Paintings


  • Paul Himmelstein

    Location: New York metropolitan area
    Specialty: Paintings


  • Helen Im

    Location: New York, NY
    Specialty: Paintings


  • Maria Iosifescu

    Location: New York, NY
    Specialty: Paintings


  • Joanne Klaar Walker

    Location: Charlotte, North Carolina
    Specialty: Paintings


  • Laura Richter Le

    Location: Brattleboro, VT
    Speciality: Paintings
  • Lenora Paglia

    Location: New York metropolitan area
    Specialty: Old Master paintings, modern paintings


  • Desi Peters

    Location: Houston, Texas
    Specialty: Paintings


  • Kristin Robinson

    New York, NY
    Modern and contemporary paintings


  • Paul Schwartzbaum

    Location: Italy, Spain,Gulf, Philippines, and Thailand
    Specialty: Paintings, murals/wall paintings


  • Will Shank

    Location: Western Europe, San Francisco, California
    Specialty: Modern and contemporary paintings, murals/wall paintings


  • Joyce Stoner

    Location: Delaware, Philadelphia, potentially New York metropolitan area
    Specialty: 19th and 20th century paintings


  • Karen E. Thomas

    Location: New York metropolitan area
    Specialty: Old Master paintings, 18th-19th century paintings


  • Suzanne Siano

    Location: New York, NY
    Specialty: Modern and contemporary paintings


  • Shauna Young

    Location: New York, NY
    Specialty: Modern and contemporary paintings


Paper

  • Ann Baldwin

    Location: New York metropolitan area
    Specialty: Paper


  • Wendy Bennett

    Location: Pittsburgh, PA
    Specialty: Paper, documents, Asian art


  • Kristi Dahm

    Location: Chicago, IL
    Specialty: Paper


  • Rachel Danzing

    Location: New York, NY
    Specialty: Works of art on paper including papyrus and some photos


  • Helen Im

    Location: New York metropolitan area
    Specialty: Paper, modern and contemporary paintings


  • Grace Jan

    Location: Arlington, VA
    Specialty: Paper and Asian Painting

  • Lyn Koehnline

    Location: Richmond, Indiana
    Specialty: Paper, documents


  • Deborah LaCamera

    Location: Boston, MA
    Specialty: Paper


  • Caroline Rieger

    Location: New York metropolitan area
    Specialty: Books, paper, documents


  • Harriet Stratis

    Location: Chicago and New York
    Specialty: Paper, pastels


  • Maggie Wessling

    Location: New England
    Specialty: Paper, photographs

Photographs

  • Rachel Danzig

    Location: New York metropolitan area
    Specialty: Paper, photographs


  • Gawain Weaver

    Location: San Francisco, CA
    Specialty: Photographs and works on paper


  • Maggie Wessling

    Location: New England
    Specialty: Paper, photographs


  • Textiles

    Deborah Trupin

    Specialty: Textile, upholstery

General Consultation

  • Tara Hornung

    Location: Colorado, works nationally and internationally
    Specialty: Preservation consultation, collection management, and on-site treatment for artistic, historic, and archaeological works


  • Hiroko Kariya

    Location: Egypt, Turkey, Qatar
    Specialty: Archaeological site conservation, stone heritage objects, project management and training


  • Rebecca Rushfield

    Location: New York metropolitan area
    Specialty: Conservation consultation


  • Kerith Koss Schrager

    Location: New York metropolitan area
    Specialty: Objects, general collection care


  • Steven Weintraub

    Location: New York City, and surrounding states
    Specialty: Environmental monitoring, museum lighting


If you are a Conservation Center graduate working in private practice and would like to have your contact information included on this page or have your information updated, please fill out this form.