Rikke Foulke earned a Master of Arts and Certificate in the Conservation of Works of Art from the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University. Rikke held positions at the Lenbachhaus in Munich, Germany and the Straus Center for Conservation at Harvard University Art Museums. She was the Culpeper Fellow in Paintings Conservation at the National Gallery of Art in Washington; the NEA Fellow in Paintings Conservation at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh,and the Samuel H. Kress Fellow in Paintings Conservation at the North Carolina Museum of Art. In 2005 Ms. Foulke started her own practice in Pittsburgh in the conservation of paintings from the Old Masters, traditional works from the 19th and 20th centuries as well as Modern and Contemporary works.