About me
Shannon Douglas Kimbro joined Spelman College Museum of Fine Art as the inaugural Museum Collections Manager in September of 2022, after over a decade of working as a conservator in both the private and public sectors. Shannon spent several years as the Painting Conservator and later the Chief Conservator for a large, privately-owned conservation and restoration firm in Denver, CO. In 2018, she returned home to Atlanta, where she served as the Conservation and Maintenance Program Manager and later the Collections and Conservation Arts Program Manager for the City of Atlanta Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs.
Shannon is a certified Georgia Heritage Responder and studied Paintings under esteemed conservator Dr. Roberta LaPucci at Studio Art Centers International (SACI) in Florence, Italy. She is a member of the Heritage Emergency Response Alliance (HERA), the American Institute for Conservation (AIC), and the Southeast Regional Conservation Association (SERCA), where she previously served as vice president and is currently serving as president. In 2022, Shannon completed the Heritage Emergency and Response Training (HEART) program held at the Smithsonian Institution.
