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Museum Textile Services
Po Box 5004
Andover, MA
United States
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Camille Breeze

Director & Chief Conservator,
Museum Textile Services

Biography

Camille Myers Breeze began her conservation career in 1989 at the Textile Conservation Workshop in South Salem, New York. After earning a BA in Art History from Oberlin College, Camille received an MA in Museum Studies: Costume and Textiles Conservation from the Fashion Institute of Technology. She spent five years in the Textile Conservation Laboratory at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City before moving to the Textile Conservation Center at the American Textile History Museum, in Lowell, Massachusetts. Camille founded Museum Textile Services in 1999 as a full-service textile conservation studio serving museums, historical societies, and private collectors. Museum Textile Services conservation and exhibition collaborations have received awards from the AAM, AASLH, NEMA, and Maine Preservation. In 2015 she co-founded the Andover Figures® line of custom museum forms for conservators and collections specialists. Camille is a Fellow of the AIC and is a member of both the Latin American Scholarship Committee and Ethics and Standards Committee. She has been a New England Museum Association’s Independent Museum Professionals group Co-Chair and is currently the co-leader of the Conservators affinity group. Camille is a summer instructor at the Center for Collections Care at Beloit College, and has taught elsewhere in the United States, the Dominican Republic, Portugal, and Peru.

Education

Fashion Institute of Technology--State University of New York
New York, New York, United States
MA, 1993
Museum Studies: Costume & Textiles, Conservation
1991 To 1993
Dissertation: Conservation of the Robert G Myers Collection of Ancient Peruvian Textiles
Advisor: Judith Eisenberg

Oberlin College
Oberlin, Ohio, United States
BA, 1991
Art History
1987 To 1991

Honors and Awards

Excellence in Exhibits Award
American Alliance of Museum (AAM)
2015

Honor Award for Restoration
Maine Preservation
2014

Leadership in History Award
American Association for State and Local History (AASLH)
2015

Preservation Award--2nd Place
New England Museum Association (NEMA)
2014

Job History

Museum Textile Services, LLC
Director & Chief Conservator
Andover, MA, United States
August 1999 - present

Textile Conservation Center
Advanced Mellon Fellow
Lowell, MA, United States
January 1998 - August 1999

Textile Conservation Laboratory
Assistant Conservator
New York, NY, United States
May 1992 - December 1997

Textile Conservation Workshop
contract employee
South Salem, NY, United States
May 1989 - August 1991