Maggie is an art conservator based in South Minneapolis, MN. She has an MS in Art Conservation from the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation majoring in Objects with a  minor in Preventive Conservation, and a BA in Anthropology and Museum Studies from Beloit College in Wisconsin. Maggie began her conservation career in the 1990s treating easel paintings and contemporary murals in Los Angeles, CA. She then spent the bulk of her career in Tucson, AZ where she conducted collection condition surveys, implemented and advised on storage, rehousing, and collection move projects, and treated a wide variety of historic, archaeological, and Native American cultural materials for the Arizona State Museum, the University of Arizona, and the National Park Service. National Park Service projects took her to NPS units from California to Kansas, Texas to Wyoming. Prior to her move to Minneapolis, Maggie worked on the conservation of archeological artifacts at active excavations in Guatemala and Turkey, and performed conservation treatments on historic, archaeological, decorative art, fine art objects, and paintings for private clients and at institutions including the Phoenix Museum of Art, the Huhugam Heritage Center, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Museum of Northern Arizona. Maggie was awarded a Professional Associate designation by the American Institute of Conservation in 2016. After moving to Minneapolis in 2020, Maggie was able to serve as a volunteer Caretaker and Conservator for the George Floyd Global Memorial, helping to care for offerings left at the site of George Floyd’s murder. Maggie founded Twin Cities Art Care in 2021 to make conservation services available to private and institutional clients around the Twin Cities and has since served a variety of clients in the metro area and beyond including galleries, private collectors, community organizations, corporate collections, and museums. 

Melissa Amundsen joined Twin Cities Art Care in 2024. She earned a MA in Art Conservation, specializing in Painting Conservation, from SUNY Buffalo State College, and a BA in studio art from the University of Minnesota. In 2006 Melissa moved to Little Rock, Arkansas to work as a historic decorative painter as well as a conservation technician. There she worked on the restoration of an historic cathedral as well as at Lakeport plantation in southeast Arkansas, owned by the Arkansas State University, which serves as a museum and research center. Melissa returned to Minneapolis in 2008 where she spent several years working and interning throughout the Twin Cities. She worked on a large variety of three-dimensional objects and textiles at the Midwest Art Conservation Center (MACC), as a conservation technician in archaeological and cultural artifacts at the Science Museum of Minnesota, on outdoor and monumental sculptures at KCI Art Conservation, and as a conservation assistant treating primarily easel paintings at Fine Arts Conservation. During her graduate training she was a painting conservation intern at the Brooklyn Museum of Art as well as the Cleveland Museum of Art, and spent her final year of graduate training working with contemporary paintings and objects at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. Since graduation, Melissa has worked as a preventive conservator at MACC, providing preservation outreach to museums and cultural organizations, including George Floyd Global Memorial. She is currently a certified CAP (Collections Assessment for Preservation) assessor, and performs CAP and other grant-funded general preservation assessments as a contact preventive conservator for MACC. She is also a co-owner and conservator at TCAC, working on painting and object treatments out of their South Minneapolis studio.