Anne Murray Chilton is the owner and Senior Textile Conservator of Murray Conservation Services in Oklahoma City. She has worked as an Independent Contractor at various Smithsonian museums. At The Smithsonian National Museum of American History (NMAH) she worked on the Military Uniform Re-housing Project and The Star Spangled Banner Project. Previously she was a two year Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Textile Conservation at the National Museum of the American Indian. She attended New York University, Institute of Fine Arts, Conservation Center with a concentration in textile conservation. Her fourth year internship was spent at the National Park Service, Harpers Ferry Center working on Civil War material, and on the applications of digital analysis for the study of textile fibers. Anne received her BA in Anthropology and Art History at the University of Colorado in 1997. She completed her preprogram work at Art Conservation Services and Robert Mann Oriental Rug Restoration both in Denver Colorado working on Navajo and South American textiles and Oriental rugs.