Our Team

Dana is a dual professional with a Studio Arts & Art History foundation followed by Conservation training and a Master of Science (MSc) focused in Sustainable Heritage from UCL Bartlett. She is an accredited Archaeological Conservator; Director of a social enterprise (AMTeC Heritage Science CIC); and a BIIAB qualified Work-Based Learning Assessor with nearly 40 years’ experience in the heritage sector – working at the American Museum of Natural History, New York, Museum of London, and many other small museums. 

Dana has extensive experience in Community Volunteer Training & Management and public engagement with conservation, through her award-winning partnership project ‘Anglo-Saxon CSI: Sittingbourne’ (a conservation lab located in a shopping centre – IIC Keck Award 2012). Dana was a conservator and experimental archaeologist for Time Team and several other television programmes; she is particularly keen on investigating materials, the ways things are made and passing this knowledge on to younger generations. Dana has hosted several ICON and other interns in her business and also enjoys her work tutoring and assessing work-based learners for the Victoria and Albert Museum and Culture& learning programmes.

Strategic Development Manager

Ann Jones

Lead Assessor and Course Tutor, New Museum School

Jenny Pistella

Programme Coordinator

Sam joined Culture& in 2017 with a BA Hons Degree from the University of York in History. While completing his degree Sam worked on a number of projects with Eastside Community Heritage, from audio transcription and design, to a pop-up Lottery Funded exhibition ‘Saving the Queens: Queens Market’, featuring oral histories of contemporary and past stallholders at Queens Market, Upton Park.

 

Sam has experience in admin, planning and coordination, organising and supporting a number of Culture& events including New Museum School Graduations and Sharing Days, and the ‘Imagination Café’ in collaboration with the University of West London, which toured Great Britain in 2018 and was on show at MOSTYN Gallery – Llandudno, Menier Gallery – Southwark, and the City Art Centre – Edinburgh. Sam is dedicated to ensuring the smooth running of all day-to-day operations, projects and events; to the benefit of advancing diverse arts, and heritage.