Ann Baldwin serves as director and paper conservator of a private conservation practice in Greenwich, CT. She holds an MA in art history and diploma in art conservation from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Ann trained with Antoinette Owen and Rachel Danzing as a graduate intern at the Brooklyn Museum, where she continued as NEA Fellow/Master Apprentice in paper conservation. Ann served as associate paper conservator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, at the Sherman Fairchild Center for Works on Paper and Photograph Conservation, from 1999-2010, where she was responsible for preservation, conservation, and restoration of drawings, prints, watercolors, illuminated manuscript leaves, and photographs. Ann was awarded three grants for the Greater Hudson Heritage Network Conservation Treatment Grants, including one to conserve a nineteenth-century pastel portrait damaged by Super Storm Sandy. Before graduate school, Ann earned a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design, majoring in printmaking, and minoring in ceramics. Her professional publications include papers on Robert Rauschenberg, cellophane tape and artist's intent, hinging of oil paintings on paper, bio-deterioration, and technical analysis of artist materials.