Art Collections Management Services [ contact info ] Artiphile's founder and director, Maura Kehoe Collins, is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College with a BA in Art History and a minor in Asian Studies acquired during fourteen months of study in Taiwan and the Peoples Republic of China. During her years at Mount Holyoke College Ms. Kehoe Collins worked as a curatorial assistant in the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, and as acting registrar in 1980 initiated a project to computerize the Museum's catalogue. In post-graduate studies Ms. Kehoe Collins was the first recipient of the C.V. Starr Fellowship for training in Far Eastern Art Conservation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, a position she held for three years. A Kress Foundation grant then funded an internship in the Eastern Pictorial Art Conservation Department of the British Museum, London, which led to a permanent post. Ms. Kehoe Collins continued her interest in computerized documentation by representing her department on a task force to network conservation records in all UK museums. In 1990 Ms. Kehoe Collins switched from the public to the private sector assisting a dealer of contemporary works of art. The association demonstrated art collectors' need for greater access to professional advice in collections care. With twenty years experience in conservation and arts administration, Ms. Kehoe Collins has applied her unique background to providing private collectors, institutions, and corporations access to museum-quality art collections management services. Artiphile's considerable network of qualified colleagues working in related fields such as conservation, framing, fine art appraisal, insurance, etc. are called upon to partner on projects where their expertise is needed. Ms. Kehoe Collins is currently completing a certificate program in Fine and Decorative Arts Appraisal at New York University. Clients include The Estate of Arthur M. Sackler, The National African American Museum Project of the Smithsonian Institution and The Estate of John Steptoe, in addition to many private art collectors. << home