NECA Board
Cristina Morilla
Membership Coordinator, Board Member (2024 - Present)
Cristina Morilla is a painting conservator specializing in artworks from medieval to early modern Europe. Her career has been dedicated to the study of polychromed surfaces and pigments in both panel and canvas paintings. Morilla's expertise extends to the technical aspects of art history, color technology, and conservation ethics. Her current projects focus on the technical examination and conservation of
Spanish and viceregal canvas paintings.
Membership Coordinator, Board Member (2024 - Present)
Cristina Morilla is a painting conservator specializing in artworks from medieval to early modern Europe. Her career has been dedicated to the study of polychromed surfaces and pigments in both panel and canvas paintings. Morilla's expertise extends to the technical aspects of art history, color technology, and conservation ethics. Her current projects focus on the technical examination and conservation of
Spanish and viceregal canvas paintings.
Katrina Wilson
Secretary, Board Member (2024 - Present)
Katrina Wilson is an artist and emerging conservation professional with a background in project management in the field of historic home preservation. She has a BFA in Painting from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She currently works as the Conservation Technician at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, where she previously started as a Collections Maintenance Technician in 2023. She serves as secretary on the board of the New England Conservation Association.
Secretary, Board Member (2024 - Present)
Katrina Wilson is an artist and emerging conservation professional with a background in project management in the field of historic home preservation. She has a BFA in Painting from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She currently works as the Conservation Technician at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, where she previously started as a Collections Maintenance Technician in 2023. She serves as secretary on the board of the New England Conservation Association.
Terra Huber
Treasurer, Board Member (2024-Present)
Terra Huber (they/he) is the Paper and Photograph Conservator at the Boston Athenaeum and is a Professional Associate of the American Institute for Conservation. They have studied and worked in the field of conservation since 2009, earning an M.A. in Art Conservation with a concentration in library and archival objects from Buffalo State College in 2014. Terra has most recently worked at the MIT Libraries' Wunsch Conservation Laboratory and at the Northeast Document Conservation Center. They have also held positions at the Newberry Library, the Walters Art Museum, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. As an undergraduate, Terra received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting, drawing, and art history from the Tyler School of Art of Temple University. They are a member of the Guild of Book Workers and serve on the board of the New England Conservation Association.
Treasurer, Board Member (2024-Present)
Terra Huber (they/he) is the Paper and Photograph Conservator at the Boston Athenaeum and is a Professional Associate of the American Institute for Conservation. They have studied and worked in the field of conservation since 2009, earning an M.A. in Art Conservation with a concentration in library and archival objects from Buffalo State College in 2014. Terra has most recently worked at the MIT Libraries' Wunsch Conservation Laboratory and at the Northeast Document Conservation Center. They have also held positions at the Newberry Library, the Walters Art Museum, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. As an undergraduate, Terra received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting, drawing, and art history from the Tyler School of Art of Temple University. They are a member of the Guild of Book Workers and serve on the board of the New England Conservation Association.
Babette Gehnrich
Co-Treasurer (2008 - Present)
Babette Gehnrich received her formal training in bookbinding, and book and paper conservation in Berlin, Germany and the Centro Del bel Libro in Ascona, Switzerland in the early 1980s. After moving to the US, in 1985, she completed an internship at the Folger Shakespeare Library, the ICCROM paper conservation course in Vienna, Austria, and worked as assistant book conservator at Yale University. Since 1989, she has held the position of Chief Conservator at the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Massachusetts. She is a member of the advisory board for the North Bennet Street School’s bookbinding program.
Co-Treasurer (2008 - Present)
Babette Gehnrich received her formal training in bookbinding, and book and paper conservation in Berlin, Germany and the Centro Del bel Libro in Ascona, Switzerland in the early 1980s. After moving to the US, in 1985, she completed an internship at the Folger Shakespeare Library, the ICCROM paper conservation course in Vienna, Austria, and worked as assistant book conservator at Yale University. Since 1989, she has held the position of Chief Conservator at the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Massachusetts. She is a member of the advisory board for the North Bennet Street School’s bookbinding program.
Ellen Promise
Webmaster, Board Member (2019 - Present)
Ellen Promise received her M.S. in art conservation with a specialty in objects from the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation in 2012. She currently works as the Assistant Conservator at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, where she also held an FAIC/Samuel H. Kress fellowship in 2013-14. Ellen has completed graduate internships and postgraduate fellowships with a number of institutions including: the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Staffordshire Hoard Project at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in England, the Queen Anne’s Revenge Conservation Lab, Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, and Historic New England.
Webmaster, Board Member (2019 - Present)
Ellen Promise received her M.S. in art conservation with a specialty in objects from the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation in 2012. She currently works as the Assistant Conservator at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, where she also held an FAIC/Samuel H. Kress fellowship in 2013-14. Ellen has completed graduate internships and postgraduate fellowships with a number of institutions including: the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Staffordshire Hoard Project at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in England, the Queen Anne’s Revenge Conservation Lab, Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, and Historic New England.
Allison Jackson
President, Board Member (2019-Present)
Allison Jackson is the Associate Conservator of Frames at the Harvard Art Museum’s Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies and is the owner and lead conservator at Allison Jackson Frame Conservation & Gilding in central New Hampshire. She graduated from the University of Vermont in 2002 with a degree in Studio Art and subsequently trained with a master carpenter in Hawaii. After further training in private conservation studios throughout Massachusetts, Allison spent 6 years in frame conservation at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In her private practice, she works with individual collectors and museums throughout the Northeast. She is a Professional Associate of the American Institute of Conservation and a second-generation frame conservator.
President, Board Member (2019-Present)
Allison Jackson is the Associate Conservator of Frames at the Harvard Art Museum’s Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies and is the owner and lead conservator at Allison Jackson Frame Conservation & Gilding in central New Hampshire. She graduated from the University of Vermont in 2002 with a degree in Studio Art and subsequently trained with a master carpenter in Hawaii. After further training in private conservation studios throughout Massachusetts, Allison spent 6 years in frame conservation at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In her private practice, she works with individual collectors and museums throughout the Northeast. She is a Professional Associate of the American Institute of Conservation and a second-generation frame conservator.