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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. 

Camille Myers Breeze
Director & Chief Conservator

Camille Myers Breeze
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; she is currently the Chair of the Ethics and Standards Committee, and a
member of the Latin American Scholarship Committee. Camille is also the co-chair of the Conservation affinity group of the New England Museum Association, where she was previously a NEMA Independent Museum Professional Co-Chair. She also served on the board of the New England Conservation Association from 2005 to 2011. Camille is an instructor at the Center for Collections Care at Beloit College. She 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.

Samantha Hann
Studio Manager

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Samantha Hann joined Museum Textile Services in 2019 as an intern and has been the Studio Manager for three years. She earned her BA in Chemistry and Visual Arts, with a minor in Art History, from Roger Williams University. Before coming to MTS, she was the Museum Experience Coordinator at the Newport Art Museum, where she initiated procedural upgrades and developed her excellent customer service skills. Samantha manages the business and client-relations side of MTS, as well as providing project management and conservation treatment assistance. In her free time, Samantha enjoys cross-stitching and nesting in her new home.

Rebecca Helgeson
Conservation Assistant

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Rebecca Helgeson completed a Museum Studies Masters at Harvard University in May of 2020. She began working part-time at MTS in 2018, contributing to several major projects both in the studio and off-site. Rebecca has recently returned as a vital part of the conservation staff, using her excellent sewing skills to assist on projects for private and institutional clients. Rebecca is also the Collections Manager at the Framingham History Center, where she oversees care, storage, exhibitions, and access to their collection, located in three historic buildings. Rebecca runs a small upholstery business out of her home in Jamaica Plain. 

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 is the Director of Atelier Libre, a conservation studio in Lima, Peru.
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 spent her pre-program years with MTS and is now the Textile Conservator at the Chicago Institute of Arts.
Trevor Lamb interned at MTS in 2015 and is now a PhD candidate at Boston University.
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 graduated from the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation and is now Senior Conservation Liaison at Conserv.
Gretta Hempelmann joined MTS after completing her Masters at the University of Missouri, quickly being promoted to Technician.
Kathy McKenna was the first MTS administrator. We wish her the best in her new home in New Hampshire.
Sarah Uhlendorf Stebulis is a freelance curator, registrar, and former museum director.
Courtney Jason worked with MTS for 8 years before taking a position at Adams National Historical Park.
Kenna Libes completed her MA in Fashion and Textiles: History, Theory, and Museum Practice at FIT and is now a PhD candidate at Bard College.
Danielle Bush joined MTS as a contractor for the first half of 2019.
Alec Story served as a conservation Technician at MTS for the last part of 2019. We wish him the best of luck on his future endeavors teaching abroad in Asia!
Leah Ceriello was with us only 18 months but in that time became a beloved friend. We miss her every day.
Marya V'ant Hul works for Historic Newton as collections manager.
Kayla Silvia spent almost 2 years with MTS and is now at the National Air and Space Museum in DC.
Morgan Carbone dedicated 7 years to working at MTS and returned home to NYC in 2022.

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978.474.9200
  • About MTS
    • Our Team
    • Client List
    • Press Room
  • Conservation
    • Architectural Interiors
    • Asian Art
    • Ethnographic Textiles
    • Flags & Banners
    • Historic Clothing
    • Quilts and Coverlets
    • Samplers & Embroideries
    • Sports Memorabilia
    • Tapestries
  • Collections Care
    • Vac & Pack
    • Surveys
    • Disaster Response
  • Fumigation
    • Fumigation FAQs
  • Education
    • LL
    • Porto
    • C3
    • HPRH
    • Becoming a Textile Conservator
  • Resources
    • MTS Magazine
    • Textile Conservation Basics
    • Textile Stabilization
    • Textile Storage
    • Displaying Historic Costume
    • Displaying Flat Textiles
    • Museum Pests
    • Disaster Response
    • Advanced Topics
    • Class Readings
    • Staff Publications
    • Resources in Spanish
    • MTS Videos and Slide Shows
  • Andover Figures™
    • Our Mission
    • The Andover Figures System
    • Choosing a Form
    • Purchasing Andover Figures
    • AF Contact Form