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BRADLEY SANDERS: Bradley Sanders founded Sanders Design as a means for producing his personal artwork in 1971. He founded Sanders Design with a vision of a design and production shop which would help to sustain the fading crafts of custom metal work, woodwork and other various mediums. Sanders Museum Services was formed in 1981 to meet the needs of a changing exhibition style, and the growing concerns of the conservation community. Bradley has operated a foundry and restoration business for over 30 years, serving artists, collectors, and museums. He is a skilled representational artist and sculptor, with 35 years of experience and training in multiple mediums, including ink on paper, cinematography, leather crafting, ceramics, brass, silver, copper, stone, enamel, glass, any variety of woods, plaster, wax, cabinet-making, bronze sculpture, mold making, textile, acrylic fabrication and steel fabrication. Bradley
has apprenticed in many mediums and is skilled and knowledgeable
about most. He is skilled in carving, casting, melting, bronzing,
brazing, welding, soldering, mixing, molding, and more. He has not
only grasped and mastered most of these skills, but he continues
to learn others.
CAROL ANN SANDERS OWNER/FOUNDER/BOOKKEEPER/PROJECT MANAGER carol@museumservices.com
Carol has been Project Manager on many large museum jobs including The Center for Food and Wine, The Jewish Heritage Museum, Mashantucket Pequot Museum, the IGFA World Fishing Museum and the Texas State History Museum. She has also served as Project Manager on several smaller museum projects and exhibits including The National Institutes of Health, The Wadsworth Athenaeum, Longwood Gardens, and Northern Indiana Historical Society. Carol
is also an experienced textile mount maker and artifact handler.
She provided artifact conservation services for the Southwest Virginia
Museum and textile mounts for the Black History Museum in Harpers
Ferry, WV. She has made mounts and installed artifacts for many
other clients including Gettysburg Battlefield Park, Antietam Visitors
Center, The Martin Luther King Center for Non-violence and the Tennessee
Aquarium. TARA SANDERS PRESIDENT/OPERATIONS MANAGER/PROJECT MANAGER tsanderslowe@museumservices.com
Tara served as Project Manager for the International Spy Museum, the Panhandle Plains Historical Museum, the Oklahoma Natural History Museum, the “200 Years of Childhood” exhibit at Winterthur Museum and Gardens, the “Ainu: Spirit of a Northern People” exhibit at Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Lee Chapel at Washington & Lee College, Virginia Historical Society, and the University of Maryland School of Nursing Living History Museum She also co-managed the IGFA World Fishing Center and Mashantucket Pequot Museum projects with Carol Sanders. Most recently Tara’s project management extends to the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, MA, the Lewis and Clark Traveling Exhibit for the Missouri Historical Society in St. Louis, MO, the Ziibiwing Cultural Center in Michigan, The National Museum of the American Indian for the Smithsonian Institution, and the Clinton Presidential Library for the National Archives. Tara has made mounts and installed artifacts for several other projects including the Indiana State Museum, “Byzantine Pottery and Glass” exhibit for Dumbarton Oaks, Winterthur Museum and Gardens, IGFA, Virginia Historical Society, Lee Chapel, Mashantucket Pequot Museum, Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame, and the Oregon Historical Museum.
She most recently has been integral in projects such as the Lewis and Clark Traveling Exhibit, Ziibiwing Cultural Center, the Public Museum of Grand Rapids and the Clinton Presidential Library. She also has worked extensively with all of the National Museum of the American Indian Projects, including the new museum on the Mall in Washington, D.C.
Rose
designed and fabricated mounts for the Panhandle Plains Historical
Museum and the textile section of the Texas State History Museum
and the Lewis and Clark Traveling Exhibit for the Missouri History
Museum in St. Louis. Most recently Rose has co-managed work on the
National Museum of the American Indian at the Smithsonian Institution
and has been significantly involved in the design and fabrication
of the extensive Beaded Textile collection mounting. Ben
has committed to organizing and producing Sanders Museum Services’
entire line of cast bronze hardware, and has kept up with the ever-growing
demand for our modular mounting hardware. Ben and his team produce
several hundred high quality bronze fittings for us each week. With
over five years experience in casting and bronze work, Ben has become
an integral force in developing our mounting systems. Other Associates/Contractors Name
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Carol
Sanders has been integral to Sanders Associates and its history.
She has been a presiding factor in the well-being and success of
the company. Carol has been keeping the books for Sanders Associates
since its inception. She was also project manager for most of the
museum projects from 1981 to 1997. She has over 30 years of experience
in textile art and sewing. Carol has experience as a wood and metal
finisher, as well as in sculpture and jewelry making. 
Tara
Sanders has worked full-time for Sanders Associates since 1997 and
part-time since 1985. Her degree in Sports-Fitness Management and
her Project Management background help motivate and manage the people
of Sanders Associates. 
Greg
joined Sanders Associates in 1997, after studying Art and Photography.
He was co-manager of the hanging of lifesize fish models at the
International Game Fishing Museum and was a team member in the installation
of an ancient sarchophagus at Princeton University. He has been
a mountmaker for the International Spy Museum, the Indiana State
Museum, the American Center for Food and Wine, the Texas State History
Museum, the Defense Logistic project, the Panhandle Plains Historical
Museum, the Vikings Smithsonian Exhibit, the University of Maryland
School of Nursing Living History Museum, the “Ainu”
exhibit, the Oklahoma Natural History Museum and for a private Amazonian
feather collection in Washington, D.C. 
Rose
has over twelve years of museum textile experience beyond her sculpting
and rendering, which began when she was a small child. She graduated
with an English Major and an Art Minor. Rose is a textile handler,
mountmaker, and mount finisher and fauxer. Rose worked the Texas
State History Museum, the Panhandle Plains Historical Museum, Northern
Indiana Historical Society Museum, the Ainu Exhibit at Smithsonian,
the Pequot Museum, the Jewish Heritage Museum, and “Gifts
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