Allison Lewis Email & Phone Number

Oakland, California, United States

I assist with conservation and care of the museum collection, focusing on three-dimensional objects and preventive conservation, and implement a generous grant from the Sherman Fairchild Foundation.The Oakland Museum of CA is a community-focused museum with large fine art, natural science and history collections.

I led marketing efforts at Conserv, a preservation technology start-up that offers cultural heritage collections a comprehensive platform for environmental monitoring, including bespoke preventive conservation hardware and software. As a conservation liaison and member of the growth team, I helped build connections with the cultural heritage community. I met with collections professionals at museums, libraries, galleries, archives and other institutions to learn how they currently perform environmental monitoring, and what kind of environmental monitoring and IPM systems they dream about having. I drew upon my years of real-world experience with data loggers, pest management, and other preventive conservation challenges to provide informed support for each customer’s individual situation, and contribute to Conserv’s product development.As marketing leader, I was responsible for building brand recognition and credibility, lead generation, and lead nurturing. I oversaw numerous brand, product and content marketing activities. These included planning, hosting and presenting regular webinars, managing partnerships and conferences, company messaging, website updates, blog coordination, editorial calendar maintenance, marketing emails, and a monthly newsletter. I also managed a complex device trade-in program, and especially loved developing and implementing quarterly awards for funding preventive conservation projects.

Oakland, California, United States

The Oakland Museum of CA is a community-focused museum with large fine art, natural science and history collections.As an objects conservator, I worked on many exhibits and loans, and carried out environmental monitoring at two large sites. I coordinated conservation for the natural science collection and undertook in-depth work on IPM, pesticide residue detection, art protection measures, materials testing (Oddy testing), integrating conservation records into a collections management database, and frameworks for working with contemporary artists.

Tuscany, Italy

The MVAP Poggio Colla excavation investigated the ancient Etruscan site of Poggio Colla over the course of twenty field seasons.As the head conservator at Poggio Colla, I worked with archaeologists, graduate students and undergraduate field school students to excavate, document, study, and preserve ancient Etruscan artifacts.

Berkeley, California, United States

The Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology is a university museum with an encyclopedic collection.As a move conservator, I coordinated conservation activities for the move project, which entailed relocating 1.7 million archaeological and indigenous objects. I carried out a large-scale condition assessment survey, designated objects for special mounting and packing procedures, stabilized fragile objects, tested proposed new storage furniture and packing materials, and trained staff, student interns, and volunteers.

Berkeley, California, United States

In this role, I continued to work on "The Conservator’s Art: Preserving Egypt’s Past," a conservation-themed exhibit featuring ancient Egyptian objects. I worked in the museum gallery several days a week, interacting with visitors, and maintained a conservation-themed blog highlighting treatments and research related to the exhibition.

Berkeley, California, United States

As a Kress fellow at PAHMA, I worked on "The Conservator’s Art: Preserving Egypt’s Past," a conservation-themed exhibit featuring ancient Egyptian objects. I treated objects for the exhibit, coordinated scientific analysis of select objects, wrote label text and other educational material, undertook an gallery residence working live in front of visitors, and created a conservation-themed blog.

Los Angeles, California, United States

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Classics

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Conservation Of Cultural Heritage