Wooden Artifacts Group

Paige is the Wooden Objects Conservator for the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation. She was previously an Objects Conservator at The Mariners' Museum and Park in Newport News, VA. Paige received her Masters in Conservation from SUNY Buffalo State University. She held internships at the Landesarchäologie Aussenstelle Speyer in Germany, the Institute for Aegean Prehistory Study Center for East Crete in Greece, the Frick Collection in New York City, the Alaska State Museum, and the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. She was an intern and fellow at the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina, working with furniture and upholstery, objects, and outdoor sculpture. Paige is particularly interested in wooden artifacts and maritime collections. She has served on the Wooden Artifacts Group’s Advisory Committee, as the WAG liaison for the Emerging Conservation Professionals Network, and was the WAG AIC 2018 Program Chair. She is interested in woodworking, investigating traditional technologies, and working on boats and anything having to do with the nautical life. When Paige is not working, she can be found hiking, climbing, and exploring the wilderness.

Elly is a graduate of the Garman Art Conservation Program at SUNY Buffalo State University where she received an MA and MS in 2024 specializing in objects conservation. She graduated from the University of Tulsa in 2020 with a BA in art history where she earned several academic awards for excellence in art history and scholarship. She completed a pre-program internships at The Gilcrease Museum of Art,The Cleveland Museum of Art, and The Art Institute of Chicago and completed her 3rd year graduate internship at the Michael C. Carlos Museum in Atlanta. She is currently the Assistant Objects Conservator at the Gilcrease Museum of Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Caite is Contract Conservator, NPS Historic Architecture, Conservation, and Engineering Center.

I obtained my BA in Art Conservation at the University of Delaware in 2009. After preprogram internships working on silver, paintings, furniture, and archaeological collections, I traveled to London to obtain my MA in Principles of Conservation (2013) and MSc in Conservation for Archaeology and Museums (2015) from University College London. While completing my graduate coursework I interned at the Natural History Museum, London; The Frick Collection, New York City; The National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK; and The Wallace Collection, London. After my graduation from UCL, I was the Kress Fellow in Conservation at Winterthur Museum, focusing on preventive conservation and the conservation of Chinese export lacquer in 2015-2016. In the fall of 2016 I began a Mellon Fellowship with Historic New England where I worked on objects and furniture from a range of periods from the 37 historic homes they maintain. In 2017, I joined the staff at the Philadelphia Museum of Art as the Assistant Conservator of Furniture and Woodwork, focusing on the treatment of the early American furniture collection in preparation for the opening of the new American art galleries in 2021 and the accompanying publication. After completing that contract, I was hired as Project Assistant Conservator to organize and execute a massive multi-gallery cleaning after construction had completed. In the fall of 2021, I joined the Library of Congress as the Conservator of Objects. I treat, research, and rehouse a wide variety of materials within the collection.

Sarah did not discover the intersection of her interests in the decorative arts, material culture, and chemistry until her junior year of college, when she started her conservation pre-program journey at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Working in the Furniture and Frame Lab, she was given a broad foundation in conservation ethics, documentation, and fundamental treatments. Upon graduating Magna Cum Laude from Salve Regina University with a BA in Cultural and Historic Preservation and a minor in Art History, Sarah pursued work at the Preservation Society of Newport County (PSNC). At the PSNC she participated in the condition survey of a historic house museum’s collection, and later worked as a furniture conservation technician on treatment campaigns that were a direct result of this triage-style survey. In 2020, she received a National Council for Preservation Education internship at the National Park Service Harpers Ferry Center. There, she largely treated ferrous and nonferrous metal artifacts but also gained experience in upholstery conservation. Most recently Sarah worked for Bynon Art Services LLC on a rehousing project at the Tennessee State Museum in Nashville, Tennessee; Specifically, she aided in the survey, treatment, and packing of the diverse taxidermy collection. She currently serves on the AIC Sustainability Student Subcommittee and feels strongly about the interconnectivity of the climate crisis and social justice. In her free time Sarah enjoys hiking, playing video games, and making mixed-media collages.

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Rian M. H. Deurenberg-Wilkinson is a Conservator at Fallon & Wilkinson, LLC, a private conservation lab in Connecticut and is a Professional Member of AIC. She held a two-year position in the Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, where she worked on neoclassical furniture for the reinstallation and renovation of the American Wing. After graduating from the furniture conservation program at the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage (ICN) in 2001, she has worked in private and institutional conservation labs in both the Netherlands and the United States, including a three-year Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Her specialties are woodcarving, marquetry and veneer, joinery, upholstery, and gilding.

Catherine is Associate Conservator of Furniture and Objects, Yale University Art Gallery.

Ella Andrews is the Andrew W. Mellon Advanced Fellow in Objects Conservation at Emory University’s Michael C. Carlos Museum. She received an M.S. in Conservation for Archaeology and Museums and an M.A. in Principles of Conservation from University College London subsequent to a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She has previously worked at The Fitzwilliam Museum, Archaeology South-East, and UCL Institute of Archaeology. She has worked as a conservator on archaeological projects in the United States, United Kingdom, Israel/Palestine, Greece, and is currently a member of Middle Kingdom Theban Project in Egypt. Her research interests include Egyptian polychrome surfaces, the use of organic nanoparticles as consolidants, and the identification of pigments through multistep analysis. She is a member of the American Institute for Conservation and the Georgia regional co-liaison for AIC’s Emerging Conservation Professionals Network.

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Gregory Bailey graduated in 2011 from Buffalo State College with an M.A. and C.A.S. in Art Conservation with a focus on the conservation of objects. Since that time, he has been awarded a Kress Fellowship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and a Mellon Fellowship at the Walters Art Museum, where he also went on to work as Associate Conservator. He is the 2016-2017 recipient of the Booth Family Rome Prize in Historic Preservation and Conservation. From 2017 to 2019, Greg served as Objects Conservator for the Smithsonian American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery. Greg returned to the Walters Art Museum in 2019 as Senior Objects Conservator. Greg is a Professional Member of the American Institute for Conservation (AIC), for which he also serves on the Board of Directors. Greg is Associate Editor for the Journal of the American Institute for Conservation (JAIC) as well as Associate Editor for Studies in Conservation.

After graduating from Mary Washington College with a BA in art history and historic preservation, Ryan moved to DC, where he got his first job working for a small association management firm. After that he worked at a national arts advocacy organization before coming to AIC as a Membership Assistant, and is now Membership Manager.