Art Conservation Laboratory focuses on Ann Arbor’s art collections

Celina Berenfeld has worked with fine art for years and years. Now she is trying to turn it into her own start-up.

She started the Art Conservation Laboratory earlier this summer after working in art preservation for a long time. Her Ann Arbor-based start-up will provide museum-quality conservation assessments, treatments and care plans for art collections.

That means if you have painting on the wall that has faded from the sun or with age, Berenfeld can tell you how best to preserve it. Or if you want to know how to best care for a piece of new art, Berenfeld knows how to do that, too.

"People who buy artwork are very interested in preservation," Berenfeld says.

She sees a sizable market for this sort of thing in the Ann Arbor area because of its reputation as an artistic center in not only Michigan but the Midwest. She hopes to drum up business with local art collectors and dealers first.

"The people here are very cultured and interested in collecting works," Berenfeld says.

Source: Celina Berenfeld, conservator of the Art Conservation Laboratory
Writer: Jon Zemke

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