Agenda

2:00 PM - 6:30 PM

In-Painting Auditorium

Color, Fills and Retouches: Essentials of In-painting (a two-day Pre-session - May 13-14)

If you have paid for access to the Inpainting session, please go to the Inpainting Video Library to access the recording.

9:00 AM - 3:00 PM

In-Painting Auditorium

Color, Fills and Retouches: Essentials of In-painting (a two-day Pre-session - May 13-14)

James Bernstein

If you have paid for access to the Inpainting session, please go to the Inpainting Video Library to access the recording.

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Auditorium 2

Held in Trust Session

1:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Auditorium 3

Viz for the Conservation Whiz: A Data Tools Symposium

Moderators: Sarah Reidell, Saori Lewis and Maggie Wessling

4:30 PM - 6:30 PM

Auditorium 1

AIC Keynote and Awards Session

8:30 AM - 8:45 AM

Auditorium 1

Welcome and Introductions

8:45 AM - 9:00 AM

Auditorium 1

Opening General Session (15 minute presentations): Object, Memory, Conservation and Restorative Justice

Rachel Rivenc

9:00 AM - 9:15 AM

Auditorium 1

Opening General Session (15 minute presentations): Green Tea Flowers Bloom In Autumn: A Reflection of a Korean American Architectural Conservator in the American Southwest

Alex Lim

9:15 AM - 9:30 AM

Auditorium 1

Opening General Session (15 minute presentations): Building A Firm [Data] Base: What the AIC COVID-19 Impact Survey Tells Us About the Conservation Field

Sarah Reidell

9:30 AM - 9:45 AM

Auditorium 1

Opening General Session (15 minute presentations): Disability Inclusion in Conservation

Hilary Kaplan

9:45 AM - 10:00 AM

Auditorium 1

Q/A Opening General Session

10:40 AM - 10:55 AM

Auditorium 1

Opening General Session (15 minute presentations): Legitimizing the past: Conservation, expertise and the power of transformation

Cailtlin O'Grady

10:55 AM - 11:10 AM

Auditorium 1

Opening General Session (15 minute presentations): On the use of culturally appropriate technical terminology

Nayaran Khandekar

11:10 AM - 11:25 AM

Auditorium 1

Opening General Session (15 minute presentations): Cultural Heritage Preservation into the Twenty-First Century: Integrating Sustainability with Conservation Integrating Sustainability with Conservation

Sarah Nunberg and Sarah Sanchez

11:25 AM - 11:40 AM

Auditorium 1

Opening General Session (15 minute presentations): Settling Between the Chairs. The Development of Conservation towards a Scientific Discipline as Reflected in the Establishment of a Formal Academic Training in Early 20th Century Vienna

Sigrid Eyb-Green

11:40 AM - 12:00 PM

Auditorium 1

Q/A

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Auditorium 1

The Preservation and Conservation Issues of 19th Century Varnished Wall Maps: Lunch Panel Session

Seth Irwin

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Auditorium 1

Specialty Session - Photographic Materials: Sustainable solution for the preservation of a collection of historical glass plate negatives in Myanmar : the use of dry cabinets and locally available materials

Bertrand Lavédine

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Auditorium 2

Specialty Session - Architecture: Evaluating the efficacy of cyclododecane in cross-sectional architectural paint analysis

Brooke Russell

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Auditorium 3

Specialty Session - Textiles: The Relics of General Washington: A Synthesis of Conservation and Mount Design for George Washington’s Coat

Johanna Tower

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Auditorium 4

Specialty Session - Electronic Media: Expanding the Horizons: Building Collaborations to Care for Contemporary and Time-Based Media Collections

Shu-Wen Lin

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Auditorium 1

Specialty Session - Photographic Materials: Photo Conservation Surveys in Latin America: History, Progress & Evolution

Soledad Abarca

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Auditorium 2

Specialty Session - Architecture: Limewash Lessons: Field Testing a Failure

Stephanie Hoagland

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Auditorium 3

Specialty Session - Textiles: Overcoming the Challenges of Mounting a 39 foot long Painted Textile with a Magnetic Mounting System

Gwen Spicer

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Auditorium 4

Specialty Session - Electronic Media: Right-sizing a time-based media conservation program at Glenstone

Samantha Owens

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Auditorium 1

Specialty Session - Photographic Materials: Collection-scale representation of the visual properties of black and white paper

Paul Messier

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Auditorium 3

Specialty Session - Textiles: Highlighting Marian Anderson in the Costume and Textiles Collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art: The treatment and mounting of a velvet 1940’s dress.

Andrea Goldstein

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Auditorium 4

Specialty Session - Electronic Media: Beyond the archive: Preservation and access for web-based interactive data journalism

Josephine Jenks

4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Auditorium 1

Specialty Session - Photographic Materials: Reassembly of Deborah Bright’s “Crow Agency” Panorama

Luisa Casella

4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Auditorium 2

Specialty Session - Architecture: Saving Streamline Moderne: stabilization, repair and restoration of the 1939 Saban Building at the new Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, Los Angeles

John Fidler

4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Auditorium 3

Specialty Session - Textiles: 100 years (almost!) of costume mounting at the McCord Museum 1921-2021

Caroline Bourgeois

4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Auditorium 4

Specialty Session - Electronic Media: Preserving Software-based Art at Tate: From Research to Best Practices

Tom Ensom

4:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Auditorium 1

Specialty Session - Photographic Materials: The photographs of Seydou Keïta

Elsa Thyss

4:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Auditorium 2

Specialty Session - Architecture: Moving Wonderland

Nina A Roth-Wells

4:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Auditorium 3

Specialty Session - Textiles: Commemorating The Met’s New Islamic Galleries Installation - Revisiting Textile Conservation Practices for the Culturally Diverse Collection

Janina Poskrobko

4:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Auditorium 4

Specialty Session - Electronic Media: An analysis of software-based artworks using Max/MSP through different conservation strategies

Tzu-Chuan Lin

5:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Auditorium 1

Specialty Session - Photographic Materials: Laura Gilpin’s book “The Pueblos, A Camera Chronicle”, An Archive Story

Ariadna Rodriguez

5:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Auditorium 3

Specialty Session - Textiles: A Comparative Study of the Impact of Beva 371 and Nano Vinyl Acetate Derivatives on Egyptian Coptic Textiles (Tapestry)

Heba Saad

5:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Auditorium 4

Specialty Session - Electronic Media: Peer-to-Peer: Towards the Collective Conservation of Net Art

Anna Mladentseva

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM

Auditorium 1

Specialty Session - Paintings: Treatment of a water drip on Mark Rothko’s Untitled (1957) in the Menil Collection

Anne Schmid

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM

Auditorium 2

Specialty Session - Objects: Glazed ceramics placed outdoors: conservation issues and lacuna integration techniques. An ecological choice for the future with a return to the origins?

Shirin Afra

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM

Auditorium 3

Specialty Session - Wooden Artifacts: A Limewood Lemon: Overhauling a 17th Century Grinling Gibbons Overmantel

Lisa Ackerman

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM

Auditorium 4

Specialty Session - Contemporary Art Network (CAN!): Guided by the Light: Rethinking Approaches to Assessment of Light-Based Artworks

Sasha Arden

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM

Auditorium 1

Specialty Session - Paintings: Conservation of Mary Corse White Light Paintings

Linnaea Saunders

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM

Auditorium 2

Specialty Session - Objects: Restoration of the Memorial to Col. Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment.

Barbara Mangum

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM

Auditorium 3

Specialty Session - Wooden Artifacts: Wood BONDS wood

Andreas Hochuli

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM

Auditorium 4

Specialty Session - Contemporary Art Network (CAN!): An investigation and treatment of Eva Hesse’s Several (1965)

Austin Anderson

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Auditorium 1

Specialty Session - Paintings: Art at the boundaries: Conservation of a 1930s black silk velvet painting

Netanya Shephard Schiff

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Auditorium 2

Specialty Session - Objects: Contested Care: Two problematic monuments at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Pilar Brooks

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Auditorium 3

Specialty Session - Wooden Artifacts: Revelation of three kinds of traditional Chinese gilding technique applied on wooden relics of Qing Dynasty collected in the Forbidden City

Na Wang

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Auditorium 4

Specialty Session - Contemporary Art Network (CAN!): Facsimile Future - past, present, projections and potential

Alison Norton

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Auditorium 1

Specialty Session - Paintings: ‘White on Black: Surprising Technical Imaging Results of Suprematist Composition with Plane in Projection (1915) by Kazimir Malevich’

Mariana Escamilla-Martínez

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Auditorium 2

Specialty Session - Objects: Changing Approaches to Monumental Plaster Casts at Weir Farm National Historic Site

Naomi Kroll Hassebroek

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Auditorium 3

Specialty Session - Wooden Artifacts: From cultural heritage to culture of conservation.

Shun-Jen Tsai

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Auditorium 4

Specialty Session - Contemporary Art Network (CAN!): Conservation concerns regarding installations that incorporate living plants: a closer look at selected case studies

Erin Fitterer

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Auditorium 1

Specialty Session - Paintings: The perception of techniques used for retouching wall paintings in the Netherlands

William Wei

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Auditorium 2

Specialty Session - Objects: A Lesson in Balance and Adaptation: The Conservation of Alexander Calder's Man-Eater with Pennants

Abigail Mack

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Auditorium 3

Specialty Session - Wooden Artifacts: A survey of lacquerware in the collections of the Preservation Society of Newport County

Luli Zou

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Auditorium 4

Specialty Session - Contemporary Art Network (CAN!): Study and restoration treatment of a collage by Giulio Turcato: from precision mild heat transfer using IMAT nanotechnology to novel sustainable methods and strategies for consolidation and reintegration.

Maddalena Magnani

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Auditorium 1

Speciality Session - Paintings: Projection Meets Perspective: Study on the Development of Chinese-European Painting Artworks in Imperial Court by Non-invasive Analysis

Yong Lei

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Auditorium 2

Specialty Session - Objects: "Clove of Garlic Crushed and Boiled": Paul Manship's Patinas

Dorothy Cheng

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Auditorium 4

Specialty Session - Contemporary Art Network (CAN!): Fiat Lux: displaying and preserving Flux Light Kit

Rachel Rivenc

12:15 PM - 2:00 PM

Auditorium 1

Mistakes Session Lunch

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Auditorium 1

Concurrent General Session - Automation, Conservation, Preservation: Facing the Opportunities and Risks Posed by Technological InnovationStructured Conservation Data for the Next Information Age

Ryan Lieu

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Auditorium 2

Concurrent General Session - Saying “Yes”: Conservation Professionals as Liaisons, Facilitators, and Unifiers Touch decisions

Jane Henderson

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Auditorium 3

Concurrent General Session - The Conservator as Agent of Change: Chance? Choice? Change?

Jim Coddington

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Auditorium 4

Concurrent General Session - Preventive Conservation, Monitoring, and Access: Evolution and Change Decontextualisation: a form of dissociation or a new risk?

Christel Pesme

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Auditorium 1

Concurrent General Session - Automation, Conservation, Preservation: Facing the Opportunities and Risks Posed by Technological Innovation when AI Meets Literary Collection: A Feasibility Assessment of AI Visual Analysis Technology for Identifying Paper Deterioration

Wan-Jen Lin

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Auditorium 2

Concurrent General Session - Saying “Yes”: Conservation Professionals as Liaisons, Facilitators, and Unifiers French conservation experts facing shrinking cities : The evolution of the role of the Architectes des bâtiments de France in city-centres

Alix de la Gaignonnière

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Auditorium 3

Concurrent General Session - The Conservator as Agent of Change: Sociopolitical Flux & Conservation Interventions: Studying Fascist Monuments in Italy

Joannie Bottkol

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Auditorium 4

Concurrent General Session - Preventive Conservation, Monitoring, and Access: Evolution and Change Fifty years of preventive conservation: From avoiding change to maximizing values delivered and retained.

Robert Waller

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Auditorium 1

Concurrent General Session - Automation, Conservation, Preservation: Facing the Opportunities and Risks Posed by Technological Innovation From blinking bulbs to advanced AI: the past, present and future of HVAC control

Christopher Cameron

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Auditorium 2

Concurrent General Session - Saying “Yes”: Conservation Professionals as Liaisons, Facilitators, and Unifiers Bears Ears Site Preservation Project: Responding to Visitor Impacts on Cliff Dwellings in Southeast Utah

Shanna Diederichs

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Auditorium 3

Concurrent General Session - The Conservator as Agent of Change: The ethics of care: Examining ethics from non-conservation resources to inform human-centered conservation

Nina Owczarek

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Auditorium 4

Concurrent General Session - Preventive Conservation, Monitoring, and Access: Evolution and Change Social Disconnection: Is it the 11th Agent of Deterioration?

Thiago S. Puglieri

4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Auditorium 1

Concurrent General Session - Interdisciplinary Research Methods to (Re-)Establish Object Histories and Provenance for Material Culture - Establishing context and continuity for the use of human remains in Tibetan ritual objects: A methodology

Ayesha Fuentes

4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Auditorium 2

Concurrent General Session - Conserving Relationships; New Horizons for Collaboration and Communication Embracing Infinite Slippage

Libby Ireland and Jack McConchie

4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Auditorium 3

Concurrent General Session - History through the Lens of Treatments: Rethinking Textile Repairs on an Iconic Aircraft: Conservation of the Wright Military Flyer

Elizabeth Beesley

4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Auditorium 4

Lighting the Way: The Evolution of Preservation-Based Museum Lighting Policies and Practices Between 1978 and 2020

Steven Weintraub

4:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Auditorium 1

Concurrent General Session - Interdisciplinary Research Methods to (Re-)Establish Object Histories and Provenance for Material Culture: Conservation Initiative in African Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts The Impact of Interdisciplinary Research + Collaboration on Collections of African Material Culture

Casey Mallinckrodt

4:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Auditorium 2

Concurrent General Session - Conserving relationships: New horizons for collaboration and communication: Art conservators: caregivers and storytellers

Ximena Bernal

4:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Auditorium 3

Concurrent General Session - History through the Lens of Treatments: A future defined by risk: the tomb of Tutankhamen and its influence on the development of the field of conservation

Lori Wong

4:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Auditorium 4

Concurrent General Session - Back to the Future: Managing Pests in a Changing World

Rachel Perkins Arenstein

5:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Auditorium 1

Concurrent General Session - Interdisciplinary Research Methods to (Re-)Establish Object Histories and Provenance for Material Culture - Uncovering provenance: An interdisciplinary approach

Landis Smith

5:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Auditorium 2

Concurrent General Session: Conserving relationships: New horizons for collaboration and communicationNew Hall, New Paths: Hall Revisualization Leads to Renovated Practice

Stephanie Black

5:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Auditorium 3

Concurrent General Session - History through the Lens of Treatments: Conservation treatment of Rembrandt’s The Night Watch: the decision-making process

Petria Noble

5:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Auditorium 4

Concurrent General Session - Standards, Science, and Sustainability: Four Decades of Environmental Management for Collections Preservation

Jeremy Linden

8:15 AM - 10:15 AM

Auditorium 1

AIC History Session – 50 Years in the Making: The Evolution of our Profession and thoughts about its future

Rebecca Rushfield and Joyce Hill Stoner

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Auditorium 1

Specialty Session - Book and Paper: Professional Identity in Library and Archives Conservation

Jen Hunt Johnson

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Auditorium 2

Specialty Session - Sustainability: A hand in the past, a repair for the future? The reuse and recycling of materials in library and archive conservation

Victoria Stevens

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Auditorium 3

Specialty Session: Collection Care: Priority Risk Assessment and Matrices: key strategic imperatives using a Model Level Continuum to bridge the gaps and securing our history

Tricia Lawrence Powell

10:30 AM - 10:45 AM

Auditorium 4

Specialty Session - Research and Technical Studies: Application of laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) for micro-sampling-based elemental analysis of cultural heritage objects

Richard R. Hark

10:45 AM - 11:00 AM

Auditorium 4

Specialty Session - Research and Technical Studies: Pushing the Limits – The Portable Laser Ablation Micro-Sampling Technique and its Application in Cultural Heritage

Alice Knaf

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Auditorium 3

Specialty Session - Collection Care Network: Disaster Risk Management in the Rafael Núñez House Museum: an integral project to mitigate the effects of climate change in the Colombian Caribbean coast.

Ana Paula Gomez

11:00 AM - 11:15 AM

Auditorium 4

Specialty Session - Research and Technical Studies: Isotope and trace element analyses using portable laser ablation at the Field Museum: A progress report

Laure Dussubieux

11:15 AM - 11:30 AM

Auditorium 4

Specialty Session - Research and Technical Studies: Minimally invasive, on-site sampling by portable laser ablation

Detlef Günther

11:30 AM - 11:45 AM

Auditorium 1

Specialty Session - Book and Paper: A Proven Case of Repainted Ming Dynasty Chinese Ancestor Portrait Painting

Ting-Fu Fan

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Auditorium 2

Specialty Session - Sustainability: Reconciling and honouring intangible values in spaces of negative heritage. Identifying a sustainable conservation approach to fire-damaged New Cross and Grenfell.

Talia Weiss

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Auditorium 3

Specialty Session - Collection Care Network: Climate Risk Mapping for Texas Archives: Working Iteratively with Students for Disaster Preparedness

Sarah Norris

11:45 AM - 12:00 PM

Auditorium 1

Specialty Session - Book and Paper: Can an old-school treatment ever catch up with the change? A hybrid method for treating and remounting a Ming dynasty Chinese silk scroll collected in the National Palace Museum, Taipei

Sun-Hsin Hung

1:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Auditorium 1

Specialty Session - Book and Paper: BONG HiTS 4 JESUS’: CONSERVING A CONTROVERSY

Seth Irwin

1:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Auditorium 2

Specialty Session - Objects/ADG: Layers and Layers: An Overview of Treatment Approaches for Egyptian Cartonnage at the Penn Museum

Tessa de Alarcon

1:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Auditorium 3

Specialty Session - Collection Care Network: Getting to maybe: A case study in implementing Bizot Green Protocol as an outgoing loan standard

MaryJo Lelyveld

1:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Auditorium 4

Specialty Session - RATS/WAG Joint Session: Identification of mahogany and look-alike woods in 18th- and 19th-century furniture using laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) and pyrolysis gas chromatography mass spectrometry (Py-GC/MS)

Richard Hark

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Auditorium 1

Specialty Session - Book and Paper: The Chew Kee Store: Preserving the Legacy of the California Cantonese Gold Rush

Jennifer Parson

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Auditorium 2

Specialty Session - Objects/ADG: Sustainable Solutions: Water Based Consolidants for the Treatment of Low-Fired Ceramics

Céline Wachsmuth

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Auditorium 3

Specialty Session - Collection Care Network: Acoustic emission and collection monitoring at distance: reimagining connections between scientists and conservators

Michał Łukomski

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Auditorium 4

Specialty Session - RATS/WAG Joint Session: Study of the mechanical behavior of a panel painting under the constraints of its cradle, in order to estabilish an equilibrium point of the system. Between interdisciplinarity and serendipity.

Norman Verschueren

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Auditorium 1

Specialty Session - Book and Paper: Sewing, adhesion and grain direction in book conservation

Rita Udina

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Auditorium 2

Specialty Session - Objects/ADG: The effect of conservation agents on non-destructive dendrochronology

Ingrid Stelzner

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Auditorium 3

Specialty Session - Collection Care Network: Benchmarking method to set risk control priorities for light exposure and strategize microfading at collection level

Christel Pesme

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Auditorium 4

Specialty Session - RATS/WAG Joint Session: Twins with separate lives: a pair of Southeast Asian side tables with different treatment histories rooted in different cultures?

Birte Koehler

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Auditorium 1

Specialty Session - Book and Paper: Chinoiserie/Chinese Export: a Comparison of Conditions and Treatments of Two Wallcoverings in Comparable Oceanside Environments

Deborah LaCamera

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Auditorium 2

Specialty Session - Objects/ADG: Going to pieces for Conservation: Experiences gained and lessons learned from ten years of disassembling USS Monitor composite artifacts.

Will Hoffman

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Auditorium 3

Specialty Session - Collection Care Network: Working with Windows: A Case Study in Assessing Risk and Developing Solutions in Exhibition Spaces with Windows

Jacinta Johnson

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Auditorium 4

Specialty Session - RATS/WAG Joint Session: Technical Study and Conservation of Korean Late Joseon Dynasty Lacquerware

Colleen O'Shea

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Auditorium 1

Specialty Session - Book and Paper: "Pressing Politics:" A Technical Study of German Expresisonist and Mexican Prints from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Madison Brockman

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Auditorium 2

Specialty Session - Objects/ADG: Building Back Better: A Collaborative Approach to Reconstructing an Egyptian Palace

Jessica Betz Abel

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Auditorium 3

Specialty Session - Collection Care Network: From condition to risk assessment. A documentation protocol for the preventive conservation of contemporary public-art collections

Marta Gómez Ubierna

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Auditorium 4

Specialty Session - RATS/WAG Joint Session: Microscopic Examination of Asian Lacquer Surfaces Prior to Treatment

Marianne Webb

4:15 PM - 6:15 PM

Auditorium 1

Closing General Session: Reimagining the Smithsonian's National Museum of African ArtA path towards engaging conservation practices with Indigenous ideologies for care and stewardship at the National Museum of the American Indian

Dana Moffett and Kelly McHugh

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