Gretchen Anderson
Gretchen E. Anderson (BA, Anthropology and Art History; MA, Museum Studies and Art History) learned her craft at the American Museum of Natural History, the Smithsonian’s Conservation Analytical Lab, the Canadian Conservation Institute, Getty Conservation Lab, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Minnesota Historical Society. She established the conservation department at the Science Museum of Minnesota in 1989. She is the coauthor of “A Holistic Approach to Museum Pest Management” and established a rigorous integrated pest management (IPM) program for the Science Museum of Minnesota. Since 2009, Anderson has been the Conservator at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. She lectures and presents workshops on preventive conservation, IPM, and museum housekeeping. She has practiced IPM methods since the 1980s and been a member of the Museum Pest Network working group since 2001.
Anne Amati
As Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) Coordinator and Registrar at the University of Denver Museum of Anthropology, Amati is responsible for the legal aspects of the museum, including loans, acquisitions, and NAGPRA compliance activities. She is an Adjunct Instructor for the University of Denver Museum and Heritage Studies program and works closely with students on collection management and exhibit projects. Amati is the Principal Investigator for a three-year initiative to develop a network for museum professionals engaged in implementing NAGPRA, funded by an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Leadership Grant for Museums.
Joan Bacharach
Joan Bacharach is Senior Curator and former Museum Registrar in the National Park Service Mu seum Management Program and develops policies and procedures for preservation and protection and access and use for National Park Service museum collections. She is the general editor of the National Park Service Museum Handbook, Part I: Museum Collections, Part III: Museum Collection Use, and Conserve-O-Gram Technical Leaflet Series and has coauthored and authored guidance in these publications. Bacharach develops virtual museum exhibits in collaboration with parks and conducts training and curriculum development for the National Park Service and Department of the Interior museum programs. She is an adjunct professor for the Johns Hopkins Museum Studies program where she teaches a graduate collections management class and is on the board of the Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums.
Justyna Badach
Justyna Badach received her MFA in photography from the Cranbrook Academy of Art. She is the Head of Imaging at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, an exhibiting artist, and educator. Commercial clients include the Joan Mitchell Foundation, Warhol Foundation, Ed Ruscha catalogue raisonné/Gagosian Gallery, and the Art Institute of Chicago. Badach’s work has been exhibited extensively throughout the United States and abroad. Notable exhibitions include the Michener Museum, Light Work Syracuse, White Columns New York, Catherine Edelman Gallery Chicago, Blue Sky Gallery (Portland) and Contemporary Art Center (Las Vegas). Badach’s work is in the permanent collections of Portland Art Museum, Museet for Fotokunst Brandts (Odense, Denmark), Center for Photography Woodstock, Cranbrook Museum of Art, Rice University Library (Houston), Temple University (Philadelphia), and Haverford College. She has been awarded an artist residency from Light Work, and grants from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Leeway Foundation and The Independence Foundation.
Julie Bakke
Julie Bakke is the Chief Registrar at the Museum of Fine Arts (Houston) where she has worked for nineteen years. She began her museum career in 1979 as an assistant registrar at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. In 1985 she became the Registrar at the Menil Collection in Houston, where she organized the move of the collection into the new museum facility. Bakke has extensive experience in collections management, exhibitions management, risk management, and storage planning and has participated on a number of panels related to those areas of her expertise.
Racine Berkow
Racine Berkow is president and founder of Racine Berkow Associates (RBA), Inc., a full-service international fine art transport company specializing in handling fine arts, antiques, and museum exhibitions. Prior to establishing RBA in 1987, Berkow served as Registrar at the Jewish Museum in New York and held executive positions at two international shipping companies—one based in London and one in New York. During her tenure at the museum, she was a founding member of the Registrars Committee of the American Association of Museums and a regional officer. Berkow holds a BFA from Ohio State University and professional certificates from the School of Visual Arts and the World Trade Institute. She is a member of Arttable, Inc., and Women Presidents Organization (WPO) and has served as the Chairperson of the Membership Committee of International Conference of Exhibition and Fine Art Transporters (ICEFAT). Berkow is an adjunct instructor at New York University where she teaches a course titled “International Fine Art Logistics.”
Paisley Cato
Paisley S. Cato has more than thirty-five years of experience in the care, management, and documentation of collections. She has published more than forty-five articles and books (including sections for the fourth and fifth editions of Museum Registration Methods), and led efforts at six institutions to write policies and procedures for natural history and archaeology collections. Cato earned a BA from Smith College and an MA in Museum Studies from Texas Tech University. She holds a PhD, with emphasis in Museum Studies, from Texas A&M University. Cato worked at the Brazos Valley Museum, Texas Cooperative Wildlife Collection (Texas A&M), Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Virginia Museum of Natural History, Western Science Center, and the San Diego Natural History Museum. She has obtained more than fifteen grants from national funding agencies to improve care, management, and accessibility to collections.
Karen Daly
Karen Daly has been a museum registrar at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) since 1996. In 2003, she assumed an additional role as VMFA’s Coordinator of Provenance Research, serving as the museum’s contact person for information related to World War II–era provenance, and as its coordinator of provenance research. Since 2012 she has been the Registrar for Exhibitions, overseeing departmental responsibilities for loan exhibitions to the museum. Daly holds a MA in Art Historical Studies from Virginia Commonwealth University and a BA in Religious Studies from Louisiana State University. She is a frequent lecturer on topics related to museums, provenance, and cultural property issues and has been published in Vitalizing Memory: International Perspectives in Provenance Research, and in the fifth edition of Museum Registration Methods. She is a participant in the 2017–2019 German and American Provenance Research Exchange Program (PREP) for Museum Professionals.
Marie Demeroukas
Marie Demeroukas is the Photo Archivist and Research Librarian at the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History in Springdale, Arkansas. She is coauthor and coeditor of Steal This Handbook! A Template for Creating a Museum’s Emergency Preparedness Plan and Basic Condition Reporting: A Handbook (3rd edition) and coauthor of Nomenclature 3.0 for Museum Cataloging. Further professional activities include committee, board, and reviewer positions with the American Alliance of Museums, the American Association for State and Local History, the Arkansas Museums Association, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Registrars Committee of the American Alliance of Museums, the Southeastern Museums Conference, and the Southeastern Registrars Association.
Andrea Gardner
Andrea Gardner received an undergraduate degree in classical art and archaeology and Latin from Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and a master’s degree in art history from the University of Texas at Austin with a focus in ancient art. Gardner moved to Toledo in 2006 to work with Dr. Sandra Knudsen on the exhibition In Stabiano, featuring frescoes from villas located on the Bay of Naples. After her internship, she took a permanent position at the Toledo Museum of Art as Assistant Registrar for domestic loans and exhibitions. She was promoted to Head Registrar in July 2012 and took on the additional responsibilities of Assistant Information Officer in January 2013. In 2018 she became Director of Collections and now oversees the areas of Registrar, Exhibitions, Conservation, Library and Archives at Toledo Museum of Art.
Lela Hersh
Lela Hersh is the President of Museum and Fine Arts Consulting, LLC. She is an Accredited Senior Appraiser with the American Society of Appraisers (ASA) and an accredited member of the International Society of Appraisers, and a Senior Lecturer at the School of the Art Institute, Chicago in the graduate department of the Arts Administration & Policy program. Hersh is a twenty-year veteran of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago where she served as Director of Collections & Exhibitions, and a past board member of the American Association of Museums. Hersh is the former International Chair of the Personal Property Discipline and President of the Chicago Chapter of ASA. She is currently an ASA Governor for the Personal Property and on their Board of Examiners.
Claudia Jacobson
Claudia Jacobson, now retired from the Milwaukee Public Museum (MPM), has nearly forty years of experience in the field of collections management. The MPM’s large and diverse cultural and natural history collections provided the opportunity to work with a range of disciplines. Starting in the Anthropology Department, she handled day-to-day collections management projects, inventory, and exhibit work. As registrar, she was responsible for museum-wide registration activities and led work in developing collections management and museum ethics policies and procedures, managed conservation activities in the absence of a conservator, and oversaw the library and photo archives. Jacobson has been active in state, regional, and national museum associations, doing programming and serving as Secretary for the American Alliance of Museums Registrars Committee and Vice President of the Wisconsin Federation of Museums. She also taught collections management and curation courses for the Museum Studies Program of the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Graduate School.
Robin Bauer Kilgo
Robin Bauer Kilgo holds a BA in Anthropology and an MA in History from Florida State University, as well as a graduate certificate in Collections Management and Collections Care from George Washington University. From 2005 to 2012 she worked as registrar, then as collections officer for the Seminole Tribe of Florida’s Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum where she developed and maintained collections management policies and emergency plans. While at the tribe’s museum she was an integral member of the team that gained accreditation by the American Alliance of Museums (AAM)—the first tribally owned museum to gain this distinction. Since 2012, Kilgo has assisted institutions as a collections care consultant and acts as the Communications and Member Services Manager for the Association of Registrars and Collections Specialists. She is a member of the National Heritage Responders, an AAM Museums Assessment Program reviewer, and the Florida Representative for the Southeastern Registrars Association.
Angela Kipp
Angela Kipp is the Collections Manager of the Technomuseum in Mannheim, Germany, and as such is notorious for nagging her colleagues about demanding a correct inventory. She also works as an independent museum consultant for various museums and cultural institutions both large and small, specializing in logistics, project management, and the adaption of technology for the special needs of museums. She is especially interested in finding affordable ways to improve collections care in smaller institutions. Her blog project, Registrar Trek, is aimed at raising awareness of collections care in general and fostering exchanges between collections specialists around the world by publishing their articles, stories, and ideas. In her book Managing Previously Unmanaged Collections (2016) she gathered her own experiences and those of several colleagues to develop a framework for people confronted with a previously unmanaged, only partly managed, or just neglected collection.
Toni M. Kiser
Toni M. Kiser is the Assistant Director for Collections Management at The National WWII Museum. She overseas all aspects of registration and collection management and has worked on varied projects from large exhibit installations, digitization projects, storage moves, artifact rehousing, and cataloging and nomenclature standards. She is the author of Loyal Forces: American Animals in WWII and coeditor of Museum Registration Methods, 6th edition. Kiser serves on the Board for the Association of Registrars and Collection Specialists. She holds a BA in history from Brevard College and an MA in museum studies from George Washington University.
Elise LeCompte
Elise LeCompte is Registrar and Coordinator for Health and Safety for the Florida Museum of Natural History. She has served as collections manager, exhibit registrar, conservation technician, administrator, and consultant for museums throughout the southeast. She has several publications on collections management and artifact conservation and has organized and presented at workshops on related topics. LeCompte serves as an accreditation and museum assessment program reviewer for the American Alliance of Museums, council member and coordinator of the Southeastern Museums Conference Career Center, board member and co-chair of the Education Committee for the Association of Registrars and Collec tions Specialists, and Travel Grants Coordinator for the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections. LeCompte is an Adjunct Professor for the University of Florida Museum Studies program and holds an MA in archaeology and chemistry from the University of Florida and a BA in anthropology from Johns Hopkins University.
Melissa Levine
Melissa Levine is the Director of the University of Michigan Library’s Copyright Office, providing guidance on copyright policy and practice in the university context. On any given day, questions range from open access and open data to copyright in scholarly publishing and artificial intelligence. She is a member of the library’s senior management group and serves on the steering committee for the University of Michigan’s Museum Studies Program. She has worked at several university museums and at the Smithsonian Institution, where she handled business affairs, including publishing and licensing matters. She served as Assistant General Counsel and Legal Advisor for the Library of Congress’ National Digital Library Project. As a lecturer at the University of Michigan School of Information, she teaches a course on intellectual property and information law. She taught a fully online course on museums, law, and policy for the masters in museum studies program at Johns Hopkins Krieger School of Arts and Sciences Advanced Academic Programs.
Cristina Linclau
Cristina Linclau (MLIS, MA) is the Manager of Exhibitions and Collections Information at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. She began her career in museums working to consolidate databases across nineteen curatorial departments at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. There, she learned the value of metadata standards and strategies in supporting the diverse needs of the network of specialists that make cultural preservation possible. Since then, she has served as the Senior Manager of Collections Information at the Brooklyn Museum, Image Archivist at the Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation, and has built an artwork database for one of the most successful contemporary painters in the United States. Her graduate research in cultural memory and digital technologies culminated in a thesis titled “Museum Collections in the Age of Cultural Evanescence,” which frames the future of museological practices within Walter J. Ong’s theory of “secondary orality,” and discusses the evolution of serendipity from a scientific to a cultural phenomenon.
Nora Lockshin
Nora S. Lockshin is Senior Conservator with the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives, where she provides pan-institutional services for interventive and preventive conservation, across the Smithsonian Institution and its diverse archives units. She recently authored a chapter on marking collections, for which she found this book, and dialogues with many colleagues as to their experience invaluable in recommending practices to the cultural community. Throughout her career she has had opportunities to consult on marks and substrates as varied as photographs on paper, glass, plastic, and metal; painted textiles; tapa; artists’ books; geological samples; rubber sculpture; a leather flight helmet; optical discs; biological specimens; bumper stickers; composite objects such as printed bus signs; souvenir pins and medals; a box of Wheaties, a newspaper printed on asbestos, and an outrigger canoe.
Kate Macuen
Kate Macuen is the Director of the Seminole Tribe of Florida’s Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum. She began working for the tribe in 2009 as the Collections Manager for their Tribal Historic Preservation Office and serves on the Seminole Tribe’s Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) committee. Macuen earned a BA in Anthropology from the University of Colorado and an MA in Museum Science from Texas Tech University.
Erin McKeen
Erin McKeen is the Collections Manager and Registrar at the Barack Obama Presidential Library, National Archives and Records Administration. Previously she worked in registration and collections management positions at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, US Department of the Interior Museum, the Wolfsonian-Florida International University, and with the Fine Arts Program, US General Services Administration. She is a graduate of the Museum Studies Program at George Washington University. McKeen serves on the board of the Association of Registrars and Collection Specialists and serves as co-chair on the Education Committee.
Anne Mersmann
Anne Mersmann has been the Registrar, Collections and Technology at the Broad in downtown Los Angeles since 2014. She travels frequently as a courier for the Broad Art Foundation’s active outgoing loan program. In addition, she handles exhibitions, loans, and a growing permanent collection of contemporary art. Prior to joining the Broad, she worked for seventeen years in the Collections Management Department at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art where she oversaw numerous traveling exhibitions and major collection projects including inventories and vault renovations, and a database conversion of forty-four thousand records.
Laura Morse
Laura A. Morse has been a registrar overseeing collections in both museum and zoological environments for more than twenty-five years. She has been the caretaker for live reptiles, transported live animals of every shape and size, toured with international traveling exhibits, and has been a collections management jack-of-all-trades. As the Registrar of the Smithsonian National Zoological Park and previously at the American Museum of Natural History, she has specialized in wildlife regulations and their impact on collections. At the Smithsonian Morse was on the Smithsonian Collections Advisory Committee as a grant reviewer and voting member. At present she is an independent museum consultant.
Antonia Moser
Antonia Moser is an Associate Registrar at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, where she manages off-site collections storage. She also serves as Adjunct Professor at Seton Hall University, teaching registration classes for the Masters Program in Museum Professions. Formerly she worked as a Collections Registrar at the Newark Museum. She holds degrees in English literature from Boston College and Vanderbilt University and an MA in Museum Professions from Seton Hall University.
Dixie Neilson
Dixie Neilson holds an MA in Museum Studies from Johns Hopkins University and is the Director of the Matheson History Museum in Gainesville, Florida. She has thirty years of collection care experience, including work as a collections manager and consultant, and eighteen years teaching museums studies at the graduate level. She is past chair of the Southeastern Registrars Association (SERA) and is a contributor to Basic Condition Reporting: A Handbook and the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Services. Neilson wrote and directed the DVD, From Here to There: Museum Standards for Object Handling.
Melanie O’Brien
Melanie O’Brien is responsible for carrying out all duties assigned to the National Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) Program by the Secretary of the Interior and serves as the Designated Federal Officer to the NAGPRA Review Committee. O’Brien regularly speaks about NAGPRA at national conferences for museum professionals, archaeologists and anthropologists, and tribal representatives. She has conducted extensive training sessions on the NAGPRA process to a variety of audiences. O’Brien is happy to assist museums with what is required under NAGPRA and how museums can ensure they are in compliance with both the letter and the spirit of the law.
Beth Parker Miller
After earning a BA in English and German and an MA in history with a concentration in archival and historical administration, Beth J. Parker Miller served as Associate Curator and Registrar at Hancock Shaker Village (Pittsfield, Massachusetts) and as Registrar at Hagley Museum and Library (Wilmington, Delaware). She joined Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library (Winterthur, Delaware) in 2004, where she holds the position of Registrar and Registration department head. In 2019–2020, Miller is leading a team charged with developing an accessible and sustainable institution-wide collections storage solution for Winterthur. She is a contributing author to To Give and to Receive: A Handbook of Gifts and Donations for Museums and Donors (2011) and The Shakers of White Water, Ohio, 1823–1916 (2014).
Marie-Page Phelps
Marie-Page Phelps is the Registrar of Collections for the New Orleans Museum of Art, where she has directed a variety of collections relocation and inventory projects. Most recently she integrated barcodes into their collections management system while moving more than twenty thousand works of art to a new facility. She holds BA in an anthropology and has nearly a decade of collections management experience.
Sarah Rice
Sarah Rice is the Corporate Archivist at Campbell Soup Company where she is responsible for managing the historical assets of a twenty-eight-brand portfolio encompassing more than 1,600 years of combined heritage. She also serves as a board member of the Haddonfield Historical Society and Camden FireWorks, as well as a steering committee member of A New View Camden, a Bloomberg Public Art Challenge winner. She holds a BA in History from Elon University, and a MA in Museum Studies from George Washington University.
Mark Ryan
Mark Ryan has more than twenty years of experience working in the registration and collections management profession in art, historical and natural history institutions. He has been the Assistant Director for Collections & Exhibitions at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum since 2016, where he is responsible for the care and management of the museum’s collections and exhibitions program as well as overseeing the security and facilities departments. His formal education includes a BS in biology and a BA in history from the University of Wyoming and an MA in museum science from Texas Tech University. Ryan is an active participant, leader and advocate for collections care through a number of current and past organizations and associated activities. He currently serves on the boards of the Association of Registrars and Collections Specialists and the Midwest Art Conservation Center and has served as a peer reviewer for both the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Institute for Museum and Library Services.
Mark Schlemmer
Mark B. Schlemmer is the Registrar for Collections at the New York Historical Society in New York City. Previously, he was a member of the registrarial staff at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. From 2014 to 2017, he served on the board of directors of Association of Registrars and Collections Specialists where he was the chair of the Education Committee. Schlemmer is an active trainer, author, and speaker at conferences, museums, and universities where, as part of his @ITweetMuseums initiative, he shares his insight into the benefits of cultural workers using social media platforms as a tool for professional development, networking, research, and dissemination of culture in its myriad forms. In addition to a BFA in design, and a BA in French (both from Ball State University), Schlemmer has an MA in museum professions, with a focus on museum registration and collections management, from Seton Hall University.
Amanda Shields
Amanda Shields is the Associate Registrar at the Brandywine River Museum of Art where she oversees gallery changes, extended loans, collections database management, object photography, and collection inventories. Prior to this position, she worked at the Science History Institute in Philadelphia as Curator of Fine Art and Registrar, Image Archivist, and Project Archivist. Shields earned an MA in Museum Studies from Johns Hopkins University and BA in Art History and Art Conservation from the University of Delaware.
John E. Simmons
John E. Simmons (BS, systematics and ecology; MA, museum studies) began his professional career as a keeper at the Fort Worth Zoological Park before moving on to serve as collections manager at the California Academy of Sciences and the University of Kansas. He has collected scientific specimens, taught collections management, and presented professional training programs throughout the United States and worldwide. He is on the board of the Association of Registrars and Collections Specialists and past-chair of the Collections Stewardship Professional Network of the American Alliance of Museums. Simmons has published widely on natural history and collections management issues and serves as a reviewer for the Museum Assessment Program and the Institute for Museum and Library Services. He currently runs Museologica consulting, is Associate Curator of Collections at the Earth and Mineral Sciences Museum & Art Gallery at Penn State University, and teaches museum studies classes for the Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Bogotá) and Museum Study LLC.
Christine Steiner
Christine Steiner is an experienced art lawyer, handling transactions on behalf of diverse art-related clients such as museums, cultural organizations, collectors, artists, artist estates, foundations, auction houses, creative businesses, and universities. Prior to private practice, she served as Secretary and General Counsel of the J. Paul Getty Trust, as Assistant General Counsel of the Smithsonian Institution, as Assistant Attorney General of Maryland for state colleges and universities, and as Principal Counsel of the Maryland state public education system. She is an adjunct professor of law at Loyola Law School in visual arts law and has been a visiting professor in programs of international art law in Florence and Cambridge. Steiner speaks frequently on art law topics, currently serves on the editorial board of the Journal of the Copyright Society of the United States, and is active in the arts nationally. She is author of numerous publications, including a recent law review article on Art Law and the Copyright chapter of MRM5. She has been recognized consistently by Best Lawyers, the prestigious national peer-ranking organization, for her contributions to Art Law.
Cherie Summers
Cherie Summers’ first job after graduating from New Mexico State University was at the S. R. Guggenheim Museum, later becoming Chief Registrar, then Associate Registrar at the Museum of Modern Art. On the Registrars Committee of the American Alliance of Museums she served as chair of the ethics committee, and as a Museum Assessment Program surveyor. Summers has been on the Western Museums Association board, chair of the RC-WR, and a member of ArtTable, Inc. She was on the Professional Advisory Council for the Museum of Art, Brigham Young University, and the Advisory Council for the Mesilla Valley Historical Museum. Summers has been an active workshop participant, has written articles for AAM and WMA, and sections in two editions of Museum Registration Methods. On the board of the Association of Registrars and Collections Specialists she chaired the Code of Ethics Committee and is currently Corresponding Secretary for the executive committee. She has been a courier on multiple shipments in the United States, Europe, Asia, and South America. She retired from the Santa Barbara Museum of Art as Chief Registrar.
Irene Taurins
Irene Taurins has been Director of Registration at the Philadelphia Museum of Art for more than forty years. As Senior Registrar, she oversees the movement of works of art into, out of, and within the museum, physically and legally. She oversees shipping, packing, and customs documentation, negotiates and administrates the fine arts insurance policies of the institution, and has been on panels and chaired several sessions at the Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums and American Association of Museums. Taurins is a founding director of the Association of Registrars and Collections Specialists (ARCS) and served as ARCS Corresponding Secretary from 2014 to 2017. She has organized and traveled many special exhibitions and has been a courier on many occasions including an “around the world” courier trip from Philadelphia to Taipei to Paris and back to Philadelphia in one week.
Susan Wamsley
Susan Wamsley has worked in the field of digital asset management for more than fifteen years. She has spearheaded major digitization projects and implemented enterprise-level DAM Systems for global institutions. Her core interest lies in creating positive user experience through intuitive interfaces, strategic metadata solutions, and efficiently integrated sys tems. In addition to being the Digital Asset Manager at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum since 2014, Wamsley is the Chair of the Digital Asset Management special interest group for the Museum Computer Network (MCN), a national organization for cultural heritage institutions.
Grace Weiss
Grace T. Weiss is the Assistant Registrar for Media Arts at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA). She has lectured and published on media registration and her work with SFMOMA’s Media Arts collection, which she has managed since 2016. Weiss holds an MA in museum studies from New York University and dual BA degrees in art history and communications from Fordham University. Specializing in time-based media, her work focuses on how museums are adapting to collect and preserve the art of our time.
Rose Wood
Rose M. Wood is the Chief Registrar at the Birmingham Museum of Art. Prior to working with one of the largest art collections in the South, Wood worked for nineteen years in contemporary art at the Des Moines Art Center. After obtaining a BA from the American University, she continued her education at Texas Tech University and graduated with an MA in Museum Studies. Wood was fortunate to secure a National Endowment of the Arts’ registration internship at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. For about a decade this program was dedicated to training registrars to manage all collection care aspects. In 2013 Wood completed a Master of Family and Consumer Sciences (MFCS) in Family Financial Planning with an area of concentration on how families build art collections.
Sally Yerkovich
Sally Yerkovich is Director of Educational Exchange and Special Projects at the American-Scandinavian Foundation and Adjunct Professor of Museum Anthropology at Columbia University. A cultural anthropologist with experience in museums and cultural institutions in New York and Washington, D.C., she was president and CEO of the New Jersey Historical Society, Executive Director at the Museum for African Art and first president of the Tribute NYC Museum. She currently serves on the board of trustees of the Merchant’s House Museum in New York City and is currently chair of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) Ethics Committee, as well as of the Professional Standards and Ethics Committee of the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH). Yerkovich is the author of A Practical Guide to Museum Ethics. Her work, which draws on more than thirty years of leadership experience, is increasingly engaged with how museums will face the ethical challenges of the future.
Anne M. Young
Anne M. Young is the Director of Legal Affairs and Intellectual Property at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, where she provides guidance and interpretation on a variety of institutional standards, policies, and procedures, including intellectual property, contracting, cultural patrimony, repatriation, and overall risk mitigation. Young was formerly the photographic archivist for the Kinsey Institute, Indiana University, and has worked for the Art Gallery of Ontario and George Eastman Museum. In 2018 she received a Master of Jurisprudence focused on intellectual property, art, and museum law from Indiana University’s Robert H. McKinney School of Law. Young previously received an MA in photographic preservation and collections management from Ryerson University and a BA in art history and studio art (photography) from Indiana University.