Camille Breeze, Founder and Director
Camille Breeze founded Museum Textile Services, LLC, a full-service textile conservation studio serving museums, historical societies and private collectors, in 1999.
Camille began her textile 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 is the author of numerous articles, a chapter of the 2013 book Picturing Enlightenment: Tibetan Thangkas in the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, and a book on American tapestry conservation techniques. She has curated several exhibits and has taught in the United States, the Dominican Republic and Peru. In 2009, she received a grant from the U.S. Department of State to consult with museums in the Dominican Republic on issues of textile conservation. Since 2012, she has been an instructor at the International Preservation Studies Center (formerly known as the Campbell Center for Historic Preservation Studies) in Mt Carroll, IL.
Camille is active in numerous organizations. She served on the board of the New England Conservation Association from 2005 to 2011 and is a Fellow of the American Institute for Conservation. She is a committee co-chair and frequent presenter at the New England Museum Association.
A copy of her curriculum vitae, which includes a full list of lectures, publications, grants and scholarships, is available for download.
Camille began her textile 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 is the author of numerous articles, a chapter of the 2013 book Picturing Enlightenment: Tibetan Thangkas in the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, and a book on American tapestry conservation techniques. She has curated several exhibits and has taught in the United States, the Dominican Republic and Peru. In 2009, she received a grant from the U.S. Department of State to consult with museums in the Dominican Republic on issues of textile conservation. Since 2012, she has been an instructor at the International Preservation Studies Center (formerly known as the Campbell Center for Historic Preservation Studies) in Mt Carroll, IL.
Camille is active in numerous organizations. She served on the board of the New England Conservation Association from 2005 to 2011 and is a Fellow of the American Institute for Conservation. She is a committee co-chair and frequent presenter at the New England Museum Association.
A copy of her curriculum vitae, which includes a full list of lectures, publications, grants and scholarships, is available for download.