The Nominating Committee is pleased to present nominations for the WCG Board. Each position is for a two-year term starting June 2019 and ending May 2021. If you or someone you know would like to be added to the slate, please contact nominating@washingtonconservationguild.org by April 22nd.
President:
Jayne Girod Holt has been a member of the Washington Conservation Guild for longer than she cares to remember. In addition to earlier service on the Board of Directors, she has been Chair of the Outreach Committee and served a particularly long stint as the Newsletter Editor for the Guild. She is currently serving once again as a Director on the Board.
Jayne received her MS in Art Conservation from the Winterthur program at the University of Delaware in 1996 specializing in paper and photographic materials. After graduation, she worked at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History with their Anthropology Department’s Asian paper collection as well as the art collection in the National Anthropology Archives. She left the Smithsonian in 2001 upon the birth of her daughter and has worked in private practice since then. Her current clients include both private and public institutions in the DC area.
Vice President:
Rachel Greenberg completed her undergraduate degree in Art History and Ancient Studies at Mount Holyoke College before moving to the United Kingdom to continue her studies at University College London. There she completed three Masters Degrees in Classical Art and Archaeology (MA), Principals of Conservation (MA), and Conservation for Archaeology and Museums (MSc). She has worked in objects conservation at a number of leading Institutions including the Charles Dickens Museum, the British Museum, and the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum. She is currently working at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum on the Transformation Project, preparing the collection for long-term display in what will be a fully renovated building on the National Mall. Rachel is a Professional Associate of the American Institute for Conservation (AIC) and has been an active member of the Washington Conservation Guild for many years, having volunteered on the Board of WCG as a Director for the past two years.
Treasurer:
Jennifer Morton-Hauck is a paintings conservator in Baltimore. She earned a Masters of Art Conservation from Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada, and a Bachelor’s of Arts in Art History with a minor in Chemistry from Nazareth College in Rochester, New York. Jennifer and her husband recently moved to Baltimore, Maryland from the west coast in 2016.
In her current role as the Museum Advancement Administrator at the Walters Art Museum, Jennifer has experience handling budgets, coding invoices for payment, and reconciling credit card purchases every month. Additionally, she has experience creating reports and has worked extensively in Microsoft Excel. She is very detail oriented and organized. Previously, Jennifer has worked as a paintings conservator in both large museums and private practice.
While she hasn’t been able to find full time work in conservation, Jennifer is actively looking for jobs and more ways to get involved in the conservation community. This is why she became a member of WCG shortly after moving to the east coast. After regularly attending WCG meetings and making connections with local conservators for the past couple of years, Jennifer would like to give back to the WCG by becoming the Treasurer. She greatly appreciates your consideration!
Recording Secretary:
Lauren Klamm is a Textile Conservation Technician, active in the DC area for the past 5 years. After working at the Washington National Opera, she trained with Julia Brennan at Caring for Textiles and served on the WCG board as a Logistics Coordinator. Lauren has worked with several institutions throughout the area, nationwide, as well as at the Queen Sirikit Museum of Textiles in Bangkok, Thailand. She looks forward to becoming more involved with the WCG .
Katie Mullen is a program specialist in the Binding and Collections Care Unit at the Library of Congress, where she works with Mass Deacidification, collections surveys and preservation contracts. She holds a degree in Book and Paper Conservation/ Information Studies from the University of Texas at Austin (2006). Katie was the preservation administrator for the Library, Archives and Museum collections at the Wisconsin Historical Society from 2010-2018 and also taught preservation courses in the iSchool at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior to that she was a conservator for the University at Albany and the Indiana State Library and Archives. Katie has held positions as Outreach Coordinator, Vice-Chair and Chair on the Preservation Section Steering Committee for the Society of American Archivists (2011-2015) and Communications Coordinator for the Emerging Conservation Professionals Network of AIC (2008-2010). Katie joined the Washington Conservation Guild immediately upon moving to DC in the summer of 2018 and has enjoyed participating in the professional networking and sharing culture WCG has built. She is interested in serving this vibrant community as Recording Secretary.
Director: (five are to be elected)
Valinda Carroll is the Book and Paper Conservator for National Museum of African American History and Culture. She was co-chair of the Poster Session for the 2003-2009 AIC meetings. Her past service to the Virginia Conservation Association includes the following: Web Committee 2012-2017, Nominating Committee 2011, Program co-chair/chair 2008-2010 and 2005-2007, and Education co-chair/chair 2002-2004. She has also served on the Technical Advisory Committee for the Virginia Association of Museums. Valinda serves on the Advisory Board for Virginia Africana (a network of African American Historic Sites and Museums). Valinda was Preservation Manager for the Harvey Library at Hampton University for over a decade. Her postgraduate fellowships were at Colonial Williamsburg and CCAHA. Her technician and intern experience includes libraries, museums, and regional centers: U.C. Berkeley, Princeton, National Portrait Gallery, Williamstown Art Conservation Center. Valinda earned a B.A. in Art Theory and Practice from Northwestern University, M.A. in Museum Studies from Hampton University, and M.A. with a Certificate of Advanced Studies in Art Conservation from SUNY Buffalo State College. Being from the Tidewater/ Hampton Roads region, Valinda is passionate about disaster preparedness.
Arianna Johnston is an objects conservator and independent contractor living in Arlington, Virginia. She received her BA in Fine Art from Alfred University in upstate New York, and her MSc in Conservation Practice from Cardiff University in Wales. Previous placements include treating the Staffordshire Hoard at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and documenting the public art and architecture in the city of Columbus, Indiana. Arianna recently completed the Engen Conservation Fellowship at the National Air and Space Museum, where she researched the corrosion of cadmium plating. Arianna’s interests include metallic and inorganic coatings on metals and the treatment of hazardous materials. She has served for the past two years as WCG Intern and Fellow coordinator
Josie Maldonado is from El Paso, Texas and has a B.S. in Chemistry and a B.F.A in Art. She came to the DMV to intern at the Emil Buehler Conservation Laboratory at the National Air and Space Museum and the Anthropology Conservation Laboratory at the National Museum of Natural History. Josie worked as a contractor in the Collections Processing Unit, Collections Department of the National Air and Space Museum before her current position as a senior conservation technician at Evergreene Architectural Arts. Josie joined the WCG as a Logistics Chair in 2016-2017. Presently, she is the Outreach Chair. She is also a member of the AIC Equity & Inclusion Committee.
Samantha Owens is currently the Conservation Fellow at Glenstone Museum in Potomac, Maryland. She holds a Master of Science in Art Conservation from the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation (WUDPAC) with a specialization in objects conservation and a minor in preventive conservation. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Art History from Emory University. Sam focuses on the conservation of modern and contemporary art and completed graduate internships at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Hamburger Kunsthalle, as well as pre-program positions at the Museum of Modern Art and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. She has previously done research on the efficacy of the Oddy test, identification of plastics, and on the conservation of poly(methyl methacrylate) sculptures. At Glenstone, Sam is one of two conservators, maintaining the art on view in the galleries and overseeing outdoor sculpture maintenance and the summer graduate internship program. She is currently working to implement a digital preservation system for the time-based media works in the collection. Sam is a member of the American Institute for Conservation.
Ashley Jehle is an Objects Conservator at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art. She previously held fellowship positions at the Yale University Art Gallery and the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University. She graduated from the Art Conservation program at Buffalo State College in 2013. Ashley is the current WCG Angels Project Coordinator and was one of the WCG Intern and Fellow Coordinators last season.
I am Linda Landry, Collections Conservator for fine and decorative arts at George Washington’s Mount Vernon. I earned a Masters in museum studies from Cooperstown Graduate Program, a Masters in the conservation of objects from Winterthur, and I am a 2018 graduate of the Attingham Summer School Program. I have worked in art museums, history museums, and house museums throughout my career which began in Louisiana. I moved to the DC area in 2013 to work with the National Museum of African American History and Culture. I look forward to becoming more involved in the Washington Conservation Guild, it would be an honor to serve on the Board of Directors.
A paintings conservator in the Lunder Conservation Center at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gwen Manthey is a Professional Associate of the American Institute of Conservation (AIC) and a Member of the International Institute of Conservation (IIC). In addition, she serves on the Nominating Committee for the AIC Paintings Specialty Group, is a former steering committee member of the Philadelphia Alliance for Response, and former Program Chair of the Philadelphia Area Conservation Association. A graduate of the Winterthur/UD Program in Art Conservation, she has worked at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Walters Art Museum, the Chrysler Museum of Art, the Western Center for the Conservation of Fine Art, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art. In addition, Manthey operates a private practice serving collectors and institutions across the United States. Dedicated throughout her career to promoting public awareness of conservation, she has recently been focused on developing cross-disciplinary, practical approaches to preserving cultural heritage. Manthey is excited to rejoin the Washington conservation community and serve on the Board of Directors.
