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Instructors
Annie Rubel
Annie Rubel is the founder of Heritage Emergency Mgmt, LLC, a consulting firm that specializes in the intersection of emergency management and cultural heritage management. She is an active National Heritage Responder with Foundation for Advancement in Conservation (FAIC). She currently serves as the Executive Director of the Historic Eastfield Foundation.
Lauren Fly
Lauren Fly founded the Fly Arts Initiative, a fine art conservation and collections management practice based in New York City, in 2011. After training at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts’ Conservation Center, she completed her postgraduate work in the Conservation of Easel Paintings at the Hamilton Kerr Institute at the University of Cambridge. Her work has taken her to leading museums and conservation studios throughout the US, Scotland, England, and the Netherlands, where her practical work focused on the structural treatment of paintings on canvas. With more than 20 years of international experience in paintings conservation and collections care, Lauren works with clients that include museums, private collectors, corporate collections, galleries and auction houses, insurance companies, artist studios and foundations,, and other stewards of cultural heritage to preserve and protect their objects. She has led practical workshops and presented at conferences on a range of collections care activities, and has served as Chair of Conservators in Private Practice for AIC. Her specialties extend beyond treatment to include a longtime passion for collections management, best practice guidance, and raising public awareness and understanding of conservation.
She recently became entrenched in a large-scale art triage operation after a fire tore through a warehouse that housed artist studios and exhibit spaces in Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY. She was first to a chaotic scene of the evacuation of over 800 pieces of art, quickly establishing an emergency inventorying and transporting operation and then working with fellow conservator, Luca Ackerman, established a triage operation for the salvaged works. Partnering with the National Heritage Responders, she recently wrapped up the project having processed 800 works of art and getting the ultimate crash course in art salvage after a disaster.
J. Luca Ackerman
J. Luca Ackerman studied photography and film at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago before earning a Master’s Degree in the Conservation of Photographic Materials from the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague - Film and TV School (FAMU). He worked for The Better Image for almost a decade before establishing a private practice in 2021. He is a Professional Associate (AIC) at the American Institute for Conservation, a founding member of the Contemporary Art Network (CAN!), and is currently an active National Heritage Responder. Ackerman specializes in Modern and Contemporary photographic artworks, and has published and presented on a wide range of conservation topics.
JLA Inc. specializes in the physical treatment of photographic materials from daguerreotype to dye sublimation, with a particular emphasis on large and contemporary photographic works. He services a wide range of clientele, including: artists and artist studios, auction houses, galleries, corporate collections, private collectors, museums, estates & foundations, insurance companies, art advisors, archives and the general public.
As a National Heritage Responder, Ackerman has access to a wide network of emergency response resources and specialists. Luca recently worked with Lauren Fly on the Red Hook Arts Recovery Project after the warehouse fire in Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY.
Emilie Tréhu
Emilie Tréhu is an Associate Objects Conservator at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, where she serves as Emergency Coordinator for the Objects Lab and assists with Emergency Planning for the Conservation Department. She received her MA in Principles of Conservation and MSc in Conservation for Archaeology and Museums from University College London (UCL), completing her Internship year in both the Archaeological and Applied Arts conservation labs at the London Museum (formerly the Museum of London). Before starting at the MFA, she continued working in archaeological conservation at UCL, as well as musical instrument conservation at the Royal College of Music Museum. She has participated in onsite conservation efforts at Roman sites in the UK and North Macedonia. She joined the MFA in 2020 to work on the renovation of the Greek and Roman Galleries, and has since worked on a wide range of material types across the encyclopaedic collection. She is an active National Heritage Responder with FAIC.