Conservators in Private Practice

Jayne Girod Holt is the sole owner of Girod Holt Conservation, LLC. She received a Master of Science in Art Conservation, specializing in the conservation of paper and photographs, from the University of Delaware at Winterthur in 1996. Her clients have included the Smithsonian, the Senate Archives, the National Library of Medicine at NIH, various galleries and private clients across the country. She has been a professional art conservator for over twenty years in the Washington, DC, area.

Eric Thomas owns and operates Bronze Conservation Services, which specializes in the conservation of outdoor sculpture, especially bronze sculpture. Eric previously worked for Heritage Auctions for over seven years and helped to launch Muzeion Gallery in 2012 prior to founding Bronze Conservation Services in 2013. Eric apprenticed under AIC Master Conservator Jon Minyard, MFA beginning in 2011. Bronze Conservation Services has completed numerous conservations of bronze, mosaic and steel works for municipalities, hospitals, businesses and private clients. 

Sandy graduated from Buffalo State College in 2005, with a Masters degree and Certificate of Advanced Study in Paintings Conservation. She completed summer and year long internships in various museums, including the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, the Bergen Kunstmuseum in Norway, and Harvard Art Museums. Upon completion of studies, she worked for six years at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston as an assistant paintings conservator specializing in the technical study and conservation of traditional European and American paintings. She has recently moved to Raleigh NC, where she has started a private practice specializing in the treatment of easel paintings. You can view her website for more information: www.sk-conservation.com

Rachel Freer-Waters is a costume, upholstery, composite objects conservator, and fiber analyst, awarded Professional Member status with the American Institute for Conservation in 2010. She holds an MS in textile science & conservation which was followed by a Mellon Foundation internship in objects and textile conservation at the Smithsonian Institution and a post-graduate Kress Fellowship at the University of Arizona's Arizona State Museum to work with both objects and fiber-based collections. Additionally, she holds a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she studied historic painting materials and techniques, chemistry of painting, chemistry of photography, and art history. For multiple years, she served as the primary conservator at the Musical Instrument Museum, originally working on costumes and ethnographic objects, and received training on conserving musical instruments. She is currently in private practice and does preventive care and emergency planning for cultural institutions in addition to conservation treatment, and splits her time between Texas and Colorado.