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Peter Mustardo graduated from Columbia University’s Advanced Certificate Program in Preservation Administration. He was the Assistant Conservator at The George Eastman Museum from 1978 to 1982, Head of the Preservation Section at the New York City Municipal Archives from 1985 to 1990, and the Regional Preservation Coordinator for the National Archives in Washington, D.C. At various times he has worked at the Biblioteca Nacional in Rio de Janeiro, the Instituto Nacional de Astrofisica, Optica y Electronica in Puebla, Mexico, and the Centro di Ricerca e Archiviazione della Fotografia (C.R.A.F.) in Spilembergo Italy. He established his private practice in New York City in 1982 prior to co-founding The Better Image®.
Michelle Kloehn holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design and a Master of Fine Arts in Photography from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. Michelle joined The Better Image® in 2005 after interning at both the Sherman Fairchild Photograph Conservation Laboratory at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the private studio of Jose Orraca. She has participated in numerous Andrew W. Mellon funded workshops in photograph conservation and preservation and continues to show her fine art work throughout the country. Michelle is a 2011 Baum Award nominee for Emerging American Photographers and the recipient of two MacDowell Colony Fellowships. Michelle is currently the West Coast representative for The Better Image in the Bay Area.
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Anne Spence joined the staff at The Better Image® in 2013, bringing over ten years of experience in Office Administration and Human Resources, becoming certified in HR in 2007. Previously she held positions in museum exhibition supplies, art galleries and in the non-profit sector providing arts in education to underserved communities. She earned her Bachelors degree in Philosophy and East Asian Studies from Wittenberg University in 1988, and studied filmmaking at Columbia College in Chicago from 1991 to 1993. An artist working in constructed sculpture, she was selected for membership to the National Association of Women Artists in 2009, and selected for signature membership to the National Collage Society in 2012. Her work has been exhibited at numerous galleries and museums including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Marin County, California and the Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum in Arizona among others.
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