Margaret Hill-Kipling, Principal Conservator is an art conservator based in South Minneapolis, MN. She began her conservation career treating easel paintings and contemporary murals in Los Angeles, CA. She has an MS in Art Conservation from the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation and a BA in Anthropology and Museum Studies from Beloit College in Wisconsin. Maggie spent the bulk of her career in Tucson, AZ at the University of Arizona working on cooperative agreements with the National Park Service’s Intermountain Museum Services Program, where she conducted collection condition surveys, implemented and advised on storage, rehousing, and move projects, and treated a wide variety of historic, archaeological, and Native American cultural materials. She has also worked on conservation of archeological artifacts at active excavations in Guatemala and Turkey. Maggie was awarded a Professional Associate designation by the American Institute of Conservation in 2016.