Preventive Care Network

Laura Gaylord Resch serves as Assistant Preventive Conservator at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Prior to working in Cleveland, Laura worked in collections management at Tudor Place Historic House and Garden in Washington, DC and for preventive conservator Wendy Jessup in Arlington, Virginia. Laura obtained a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Delaware with majors in Art Conservation and Art History and minors in American Material Culture Studies and Fine Art. Laura serves the American Institute for Conservation (AIC) as a member of several groups, including the Materials Testing and Standards subcommittee of the Materials Working Group, the editorial committee of Storage Techniques for Art, Science, and History Collections website, and as Chair of the Preventive Care Network.

Project leader for STASH, AIC News Editor and conservator in private practice. Lisa Goldberg is a private conservator with a focus on preventive care as well as health and safety issues. She is a member of SPNHC and AAM, and is a Fellow of AIC. As long time editor of the AIC News, she regularly works with  authors and various committees to help bring publication projects to fruition.

Tara Hornung is the owner and principal of Artifact Conservation Services, a woman owned small business founded in 2010 with the mission to manage, care for, treat, and document works of art and artifacts according to professional museum standards for the benefit of heritage stewards, researchers, and the public. Artifact Conservation Services provides on-site preservation assessment, collections management, and conservation treatment of art and artifacts for museum, corporate, and private collections.

Tara earned a Master of Arts in the History of Art and Archaeology and an Advanced Certificate (now Master of Science) in Conservation of Cultural Works from the Conservation Center, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University in 2009 with specialization in Objects Conservation. Tara was a Samuel H. Kress Foundation Advanced Conservation Fellow from 2009-2010 with a focus on New World polychrome sculpture and Native Arts . Tara is a Professional Member of American Institute for Conservation (AIC) and a Collections Assessor for the Collections Assessment for Preservation (CAP) Program.

Wendi is the Archaeological Collections Manager/Repatriation Coordinator at Wesleyan University.

Sarah is a Preventive Conservation Technician at The Art Institute of Chicago. 

Colleen Grant is the Senior Collection Manager at the New York Public Library’s Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, where she has worked since 2018. Immediately prior to joining NYPL, she was a Collections Inventory Project Leader at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington, DC. She holds an M.A. in Museum Studies with a concentration in Collections Management from The George Washington University and a B.A. in Art History from Loyola University Maryland. During her academic training, she completed internships at The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, the Newseum in Washington, DC, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, and the Supreme Court of the United States. She also spent two years as a Collections Assistant at The George Washington University's Gelman Library’s Special Collections Research Center. She is currently in her second term as the Social Media Chair for AIC’s Preventive Care Network and previously served as Chair of the AIC Communications Committee’s Outreach Subcommittee.

Genevieve Pierce Kyle is a Preventive Conservator, and Head of Preventive Conservation at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. Genevieve received her MSLIS in Library and Information Science and a Certificate of Advanced Study in Paper and Book Conservation from the UT Austin Kilgarlin Center for the Preservation of the Cultural Record.

Sarah Freshnock is the Preventive Conservator at the Walters Art Museum. She graduated from the Winterthur University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation in 2023 with a specialization in preventive conservation. During graduate school she held internships in museums, historic homes, regional centers, and research labs, which led to her passion for context driven sustainable preventive conservation. At the Walters, Sarah is responsible for environmental monitoring, integrated pest management, materials testing, and microclimates, as well as other ongoing preventive projects such as surveys, gallery maintenance, and storage projects. Outside of the museum Sarah enjoys playing pickleball, weightlifting, and baking tasty treats.

Gianna Puzzo is a Preventive Major in the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation (Class of 2025). In their third year they are completing internships at Balboa Art Conservation Center in San Diego, CA and International Conservation Services in Sydney, Australia. After graduating from the Johns Hopkins University, they worked as the Conservation Assistant at The Frick Collection. As a graduate fellow they have also interned with The John and Mable Ringling Museum in Sarasota, FL and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation in NYC. Graduate projects have focused on environmental, preservation, and collection assessments; the preventive care of Modern/Contemporary collections; IPM; storage planning and custom rehousing; and air quality monitoring with low cost sensors for museums.

Samantha Springer is a conservator of sculpture and three-dimensional objects with a particular interest in working with living artists of contemporary art that are typically marginalized and underrepresented in Western institutional collections. As owner and principal conservator of Art Solutions Lab based in the Portland, Oregon area, Springer works toward providing ethical and practical solutions to collection stewards who seek the guidance of a conservation practitioner. 

Art Solutions Lab offers professional and high-quality consultations, loan & pre-accession evaluations, broad collection assessments, grant writing assistance, courier services, learning & lecture opportunities, expert evaluations for insurance claims, as well as preventive and hands-on treatment services for sculpture, decorative art objects, utilitarian artifacts, some textiles, installation art, and modern and contemporary materials. 

Prior to starting Art Solutions Lab, Springer worked as Conservator at the Portland Art Museum, where she was responsible for the preservation and direct treatment of the broad Fine Arts collection, establishing and maintaining a lab at the museum proper, and integrating conservation theory into everyday museum practices. This followed her work as Associate Conservator of Objects at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Springer graduated from the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation in 2008 and held internships at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, Art Institute of Chicago, the Field Museum, and Alaska State Museums. Her research and publications include preventive topics, the treatment of contemporary art, and collaborations with native basket weavers.

Katelin joined us in May 2015 and after roles in meetings, membership, and marketing, now serves as FAIC's Outreach Manager. She promotes awareness of the conservation field within the public and provides membership with opportunities to reach new audiences, especially through the Friends of Conservation program. She also manages AIC & FAIC's social media presence and assists with content creation and development. Katelin also serves as the project assistant on Held in Trust, which evaluates the state of preservation and conservation of tangible and intangible cultural heritage in the United States. She has experience in a variety of fields, including technology research, textile and garment design, and elementary education. She is a graduate of the College of William and Mary with a BA in History and Theatre and holds a master’s degree from New York University in Visual Culture and Costume Studies. She enjoys historic cemeteries, photography, and making overly long Instagram stories featuring medieval art.