Our Team

Museum Textile Services, LLC was founded by Camille Myers Breeze in 1999. We are located in the historic Ballardvale section of Andover, Massachusetts. Once a center of textile manufacturing, the first worsted wool in America, as well as the first wool flannel, were made in our small neighborhood. We are proud to once again be making textile history in Ballardvale. Client List.

Camille Myers Breeze
Director & Chief Conservator

Camille Myers Breeze began her conservation career in 1989 at the Textile Conservation Workshop in South Salem, New York. After earning a BA in Art History from Oberlin College, Camille received an MA in Museum Studies: Costume and Textiles Conservation from the Fashion Institute of Technology. She spent five years in the Textile Conservation Laboratory at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City before moving to the Textile Conservation Center at the American Textile History Museum, in Lowell, Massachusetts. Camille founded Museum Textile Services in 1999 as a full-service textile conservation studio serving museums, historical societies, and private collectors. Museum Textile Services conservation and exhibition collaborations have received awards from the AAM, AASLH, NEMA, and Maine Preservation. In 2015 she co-founded the Andover Figures® line of custom museum forms for conservators and collections specialists.
 
Camille is a Fellow of the AIC and is a member of both the Latin American Scholarship Committee and Ethics and Standards Committee. She has been a NEMA Independent Museum Professional Co-Chair and she served on the board of the NECA from 2005 to 2011. Camille is an instructor at the International Preservation Studies Center and has taught elsewhere in the United States, the Dominican Republic, and Peru. In 2009, Camille received a grant from the U.S. Department of State to consult with museums in the Dominican Republic on issues of textile conservation. An author of numerous journal articles, Camille published A Survey of American Tapestry Conservation Techniques in 1999, and wrote a chapter in the award-winning 2013 catalog Picturing Enlightenment: Tibetan Tangkas in the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College. She is collaborating on a forthcoming book about textiles at the Peruvian site of Huaca Malena. Curriculum Vitae

Kathy McKenna
Administrator

Kathy McKenna joins MTS as our new part-time Administrator. She comes to us after eleven years as the Assistant Town Clerk in Andover. In addition to being a seasoned manager of large-scale projects and re-organizations, Kathy has a background in Law. On her days off, Kathy is dedicating herself to writing a novel. ​
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Morgan Carbone
Conservator

Morgan Blei Carbone joined Museum Textile Services in 2015. After earning her BA in Art History from Grinnell College in Iowa, she received an MA in Fashion and Textiles: History, Theory, and Museum Practice at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York.  Since working at MTS, Morgan has come to specialize in wet cleaning and bleaching, mounting and framing flat textiles, and historic clothing. She is a volunteer on the website project for the Textile Specialty Group of the American Institute for Conservation (AIC). She will present her poster Fatal Attraction--Trials and Tribulations in Toning Rare Earth Magnets at the 2017 AIC meeting in Chicago. Morgan is also an avid instructor and knitter of laced shawls and scarves. 

Courtney Jason
Contract Conservator

Courtney Jason has worked with MTS since 2010, when she began a Knowledge Management internship. We quickly stole her and put her on the thangka conservation team in preparation for the Mead Art Museum exhibit. Since then, Courtney has been a key player in many of our most important projects, with her specialties in tapestry, flags, and large-scale mounting. Courtney completed her ALM in Museum Studies at Harvard Extension School in 2017.
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Gretta Hempelmann
Technician

​Gretta Hempelmann is a recent graduate from The University of Missouri with a MA in Clothing and Textiles. She has a BA in Fashion Design and Merchandising from West Virginia University. While in Missouri, Gretta worked as a teaching assistant for the university and a research assistant in the Missouri’s Historic Costume and Textile Collection. She reproduced corsets from three different time periods for students and the public to wear for understanding how a corset feels on the body. She received a certificate for Care of Special Collections for Textiles from International Preservation Studies Center in the summer of 2016.

Former Staff & Interns

Here are some of the amazing people we've had the honor of working with. If you're interested in working with Museum Textile Services, click here to read about our Internship Program.

Alice Mroszczyk work at the Department of Public Health and is an avid knitter.

Angela Pacheco returned to Lima where she does conservation and runs her museum gift shop company, Atelier Libre.

Christina Gorky is interning at the Boston MFA in preparation for graduate school.

Colleen O'Shea completed her MA in conservation from Buffalo State University and lives in San Diego.

Eslbeth Dijxhoorn works at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.

Ell Pappius, our first long-term volunteer, lost her battle with cancer in October, 2010. We miss her every day.

Jennifer Hale works in the arts in Massachusetts.

Jan Williams is the Curator/Director of the Haverhill Historical Society.

Jessica Shull is living and working in Mississippi with her many pets.

Kelly Baker is a theater costumer.

Jennifer Holland is a teaching assistant at Perkins School for the Blind.

Kaleigh completed her MA in Museum Studies at Harvard Extension School and works at the Buttonwoods Museum and Ipswich Museum.

Kara Muise is a studio assistant to a Boston-area artist and works for Stella Marie Soap.

Kira Moynahan is finishing her Masters thesis and heading into the job market.

Leah Wolf Whitehead is a contract registrar and collections manager.

Laura Nealy is now a Home Economics teacher in Sacramento, CA.

Mary Walter is a quilt maker and custom fabric designer.

Rochelle Brunet is preparing for graduate school in Art History.

Susan Landry is the assistant to the directors of the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at the Radcliffe Institute.

Katey Corrigan completed Level I certification and is now employed full time in the textile industry. She continues to work towards her prerequisites for graduate school.

Sarah Berlinger completed her MA in public history at North Carolina State University.

Gabby preparing to enter graduate school in 2017.

Erin works at Gore Place in Waltham, MA.

Michelle works for Richard Wright art transportation company.

Adrienne Kermond works at the Hood Museum of Art in Hanover, NH, where she is the tour coordinator and a gallery teacher. She is preparing for a large-scale move of the museum's collection.

Andy Grilz is a museum professional with over a decade of experience in museums of all sizes and specializations. He has served as a curator, exhibit designer, archivist, grant writer, librarian, program manager, and museum educator. In addition to serving on the AAM curatorial committee, Andy also represents the New England Museum Association as a member of the executive committee for COSTEP-MA (Coordinated Statewide Emergency Preparedness).

Ryan is a graduate student at Salem State University obtaining a masters degree in history with a concentration in public history. After MTS, Intern Ryan took an internship at the USS Constitution Museum.

Jen is a Chelmsford, MA, native and a recent graduate of Salve Regina University with a degree in Historic Preservation.

Jennifer works as a science professor, and interns when possible to advance her “stealth career” in conservation. Years after her BS and PhD degrees in biology, Jennifer received an MA in conservation from the University of Lincoln, in the UK. She is a Biology professor at the University of St. Thomas.

Tegan is Exhibits and Education Specialist at Paul S. Russell, MD Museum of Medical History and Innovation at MGH.

Aimée-Michelle a.k.a. Charlie completed the Museum Studies Certificate Program at Tufts University and holds a degree in Visual and Critical Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is looking for more textile conservation expreience.

Lisa Yeats is a full-time textile conservator in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Josephine Johnson started at Museum Textile Services as an intern and later worked as a Technician. She is pursuing a career in art conservation.

Kim Oey-Rosenthal completed all three levels of Intern Certification at MTS. She is now available as a contract technician.

Katrina Herron Gendreau is co-founder of Andover Figures. She is also Principal of KHG Arts.

Dylan is collections specialist with the American Legacy Museum in California.

Megan will begin the MA program in textile conservation at the University of Glasgow in fall, 2016.

Trevor Lamb interned at MTS during summer, 2016. He will complete his BA in archaeology at the University of Maine in 2017.

Cara Jordan spent 9 years as a member of the MTS team. She has an ALM in Museum Studies from Harvard University.

Kayla Bishop is completing a MA in Museum Studies from Johns Hopkins University.

Melissa has experience in objects and paintings conservation, and will enter the WUDPAC program in September, 2017.