Qualifications

Owner Jen Munch has worked in conservation and collections since 2011. She earned her M.A. and Certificate of Advanced Study in Art Conservation from the State University of New York at Buffalo State College and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Tufts University & School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 

 

Jen Munch previously worked as a Contract Conservator for the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and as a staff conservator for a large private studio in NYC specializing in the conservation of contemporary artworks. 

 

Jen gained additional conservation experience at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, the Smithsonian Institution’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Phillips Collection, Gianfranco Pocobene Studios, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Rika Smith-McNally & Associates, the Cambridge MA public art collection and Harvard University's Peabody Museum. Jen has treated easel paintings and objects from the 15th-21st centuries, as well as murals from the 19th-21st centuries. 

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Jen is a Professional Associate (peer-reviewed status) of the American Institute for Conservation and serves as the Chair of AIC’s Contemporary Art Network. She also serves on the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) Visual Arts grants review panel.