Elections

President

Hugh Shockey: L.H. (Hugh) Shockey Jr., MS, AIC-PA, has worked in the field of conservation for over 16 years. He has experience in large museums, regional center, and private business settings. These experiences have included Elvis Presley’s Graceland, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Balboa Art Conservation Center, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the National Park Service, the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian, and the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History. Mr. Shockey is a graduate of the University of Delaware / Winterthur Masters of Science in Art Conservation program with a specialty in objects. Following a postgraduate Mellon Fellowship at the National Museum of the American Indian Mr. Shockey worked in private practice. He is currently one of two staff objects conservators serving the preservation needs of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery, where he conducts treatments in public view in the visible labs of the Lunder Conservation Center. Mr. Shockey was also part of a pan Smithsonian team that helped establish the Smithsonian Haiti Cultural Recovery Center. His conservation interests include exhibit conservation, modern & historic materials, and cross specialty application of treatment techniques. He is a Professional Associate of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works and Vice President of the Washington Conservation Guild.

Vice-President

Open. 2-year term.

Membership Secretary

Kristen Loudermilk: Kristen Loudermilk graduated from Queen’s University in 2005 with a Master of Art Conservation degree in Paintings. She has held internships in painting conservation at ARTEX Fine Art Services, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the National Gallery of Art. Kristen is a Conservator of Paintings in the ARTEX Conservation Laboratory, having joined the conservation team in 2006.

Treasurer

Catherine Dewey (incumbent): Catherine Dewey, originally from Chicago, graduated from University of Kansas with a BA in Classical Antiquities in 1993. She went on to earn a Master’s in Historic Preservation, with an emphasis on conservation from University of Pennsylvania. Since that time she has worked in several locations including Ukraine, Italy and Egypt as well as closer to home in Harrisburg and Philadelphia, Chicago and New York. She currently works for the National Park Service, National Capital Region as an architectural conservator, serving the region’s parks including the Mall, DC and several battlefields. Catherine has been treasurer, and is now Vice President of the DC Chapter of the Association for Preservation Technology and is the current treasurer of Washington Conservation Guild. She has served as Program Chair/Chair for the Architecture Specialty Group of AIC and is a former member of the Emergency Committee of AIC.

Recording Secretary

Anne Kingery (incumbent): Anne Kingery is an objects conservator who is currently working as a Project Conservator at George Washington's Mount Vernon Estate. She received her M.S. from the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation where she was an objects major with a minor in preventive conservation. Prior to arriving at Mount Vernon Anne was an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow for two years at the National Museum of the American Indian and a Samuel H. Kress Fellow for one year at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Directors

Julia Brennan: Julia M. Brennan has worked in the field of textile conservation for over 26 years. Her company, Textile Conservation Services, founded in 1996, is based in Washington DC. She does a full range of textile treatments, display, installations, storage and survey work for institutions, historical sites and private clients. She frequently lectures to historical societies and collector groups on the care and display of textiles and is passionately committed to conservation outreach and the protection of cultural property. From 2000 to 2008, she led four textile training workshops in Bhutan, and did workshops in both Madagascar and Algeria. She is currently teaching preventative conservation workshops in Thailand. Julia Brennan is a Professional Associate of the American Institute for Conservation and served previously as a Director of the Washington Conservation Guild. She received her master’s in art crime from ARCA The Association for Research in Crimes Against Art, 2010. www.caringfortextiles.com.

Amber Kerr-Allison (for second term of 1 year): Amber Kerr-Allison received her B.A. from Virginia Commonwealth University and her M.S. from the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation. She interned at the Lunder Conservation Center during her final year of graduate studies and upon graduation was awarded the first Lunder Conservation Fellowship (2008-09) and than a Kress Foundation Fellowship (2009-10). Her training in painting conservation has included positions with the North Carolina Museum of Art, the Reynolda House Museum of American Art, and internships at the National Museum of American Illustration and the Château de Parentignat/University of Paris Sorbonne program in France. Her professional memberships include: the American Institute for Conservation (AIC) where she serves as a committee member for the Emerging Conservation Professional Network (ECPN); the International Institute for Conservation (IIC) where she serves as a committee chair; and the Washington Conservation Guild (WCG) where she was recording secretary (2007-08) and where she currently serves as a director. Ms. Kerr-Allison was recently selected for the staff position as paintings conservator for the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Connie Stromberg: Sculpture and Objects Conservator Connie Stromberg established Stromberg Conservation, LLC in 2001. Ms. Stromberg has twenty-five years of conservation experience on projects around the world. She has a B.F.A. in sculpture from Carnegie Mellon University and an M.S. from the University of Delaware/Winterthur Art Conservation Program. She works in the Washington and Baltimore area, specializing in treatment of sculpture, outdoor sculpture, decorative arts and historic objects for museums, government agencies, and private collectors. Ms. Stromberg is a Professional Associate of AIC and a member of IIC and WCG. She was a WCG director in 2008 and 2009 and was on the WCG nominating committee in 2004 and 2007.