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Founded in 1983, The Conservation Center is a national resource for the conservation of art.
Client base includes repeat business from major private collectors, corporations, museums, galleries, public institutions as well as major national insurance and restoration companies.
9 conservation departments as well as a museum-quality custom-framing department, an expert full-time staff of art handlers, a 24-hour Disaster Response team, registrar/inventory control staff and administrative staff members.
National sales representatives and fine art handlers located throughout the United States.
One facility – total 25,000 square feet.
20,000 square feet of optional emergency storage.
Two company owned trucks: air-ride, temperature and climate-controlled, alarmed with GPS tracking.
Professional security rating in the top 5%.
$10 million contents coverage.
$1.5 million in-transit coverage.
Professional liability coverage of $2 million for conservators.

NOTE: The Conservation Center is the first and only art restoration company to have secured professional liability coverage from an insurance company – a testimony to the quality of conservators on staff at The Center. The policy was written by AXA Art Insurance Corp, a premiere international insurer of fine art.

Conservation Staff:

30 full-time employees including 17 conservators with Chief Conservators serving as department heads for each primary area of art and furniture including: Paintings, Murals, Works of Art on Paper, Photograph, Rare Books, Textiles, Sculpture, Frames and Gilded Objects and Antique and Fine Furniture. Also offer specialty services in Custom Framing, Transportation and Installation and Disaster Response. These conservators all have a degree in conservation from a reputable institution or have been trained by a known expert in their field of specialty.
In addition to the Chief Conservator, each department head has at least one senior, associate or assistant conservator.
Conservation staff has a 300+ cumulative years of conservation experience and are members of the American Institute of Conservation and Historic Works (AIC).
All conservators follow the standard ethical procedures outlined by the AIC, using treatment methods that are as non- invasive as possible and using reversible techniques and materials whenever possible.

Heather Becker, Chief Executive Officer:

TCC employee since 1989.
Author of “Art for the People”, published by Chronicle Books.
Member of 20 associations and 4 boards (both for-profit and not-for-profit).
2004 Small Business Person of the Year award from the State of Illinois.
2002 award from Mayor Richard M. Daley, City of Chicago: recognition award for mural preservation project throughout the Chicago Public Schools and as author of “Art for the People”
2000 CINE Golden Eagle National Award for Arts and Education for “The Mural Preservation Project” documentary.
1998 Richard H. Driehaus Landmark Preservation Council of Illinois President’s Award for Mural Conservation at the Chicago Public Schools

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