President |
Eliza Gilligan
Eliza Gilligan has recently become the founding book conservator of
the University of Virginia Library’s conservation program. The
UVA Library was recently awarded a Mellon Foundation Grant to fund
positions and build a conservation laboratory. Prior to UVA, Eliza
was the Head of Preservation Services at the Smithsonian Libraries,
providing conservation expertise for their 20 branches in the areas
of environmental standards, care and handling, as well as exhibition
and conservation treatment. Eliza also contributed to the re-opening
of the National Museum of American History by working in their paper
lab several days a week with Lynne Gilliland to get the paper-based
artifacts ready for the big day. Eliza was a member of the Washington
Conservation Guild’s Board of Directors for two years before
becoming the Vice President. She has volunteered for a number of Angles
Days and outreach events and looks forward to the opportunity to serve
as WCG President as a way of staying active in her professional community.
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Vice President |
Hugh Shockey
L.H. (Hugh) Shockey Jr. has worked in the field of conservation for
the last thirteen years in large museum, 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. He is a graduate of the University of Delaware / Winterthur
Masters of Science in Art Conservation program with a specialty in objects.
After completing a post graduate Mellon Fellowship at the National Museum
of the American Indian, Mr. Shockey worked in private practice and is
currently one of two Objects Conservators serving the preservation needs
of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery. He is
a member of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and
Artistic Works and the Washington Conservation Guild. |
Treasurer |
Catherine Dewey
Catherine Dewey, originally from Chicago, graduated from the University
of Kansas with a BA in Classical Antiquities and from the University
of Pennsylvania with an MS in Historic Preservation/Architectural Conservation.
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 of the DC Chapter of the Association for
Preservation Technology for the past 5 years and looks forward to being
the new treasurer of Washington Conservation Guild. She has served as
Program Chair/Chair for the Architecture Specialty Group of AIC and
is an out-going member of the Emergency Committee of AIC. When she is
not managing money, she enjoys playing with the cats, cooking and traveling. |
Recording Secretary |
Anne Kingery
Anne Kingery is an objects conservator who is currently working as a
Project Conservator at George Washington’s Mount Vernon Estate.
She received her B.A. in Art History from Yale University and 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 a 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 |
Mary Coughlin (incumbent) for 2nd term
of one year
Mary Coughlin is an Objects Conservator who has been working at the
National Museum of American History since 2004. She received her B.A.
in Historic Preservation from Mary Washington College and her M.S. from
the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation where
she was an objects major with a focus on preventive conservation. She
annually lectures to art conservation students in the Winterthur program
on both plastics conservation and the role of housekeeping in historic
homes and museums. Mary teaches preventive conservation at the George
Washington University to Museum Studies graduate students on campus
and for the department’s distance education certificate program.
In the past, Mary has interned at the National Museum of the American
Indian, the National Park Service and English Heritage. Since 2005 Mary
has served on the Board of Directors for the Washington Conservation
Guild. |
Sunae Park Evans (incumbent) for 2nd term
of one year
Sunae Park Evans serves as a senior costume conservator at the National
Museum of American History (NMAH), Smithsonian Institution. She has
Masters degrees in Clothing and Textiles from Sookmyung University in
Seoul, Korea, and the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, and a PhD in
Clothing and Textiles from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Previously she worked as Conservator to move and rehouse the ethnographic
collections at the National Museum of Natural History and in private
practice. She has worked extensively on major NMAH and traveling exhibitions,
curated an exhibition entitled “Feed Bags as Fashion” at
NMAH, and has lectured on costume and textile preservation/exhibition
in both the USA and Korea. |
Amber Kerr-Allison
Amber Kerr-Allison received a master of science degree from the Winterthur/University
of Delaware Program in Art Conservation in 2008. She interned at the
Lunder Conservation Center during her final year of graduate studies
before being awarded the first Lunder Conservation Fellowship. Her training
in painting conservation has included positions with the North Carolina
Museum of Art and the Reynolda House Museum of American Art, and internships
at the National Museum of American Illustration and at the Château
de Parentignat in France. She is an associate member of the American
Institute for Conservation and the International Institute for Conservation,
and is currently serving as recording secretary for the Washington Conservation
Guild. |
