American Institute for Conservation 50th Annual Meeting: Reflecting on the Past, Imagining the Future

Spring 2022
Multi-day conference featuring presentations, talks, and posters on research, treatment, and other topics in conservation.  

Association of North American Graduate Programs in Conservation Annual Conference

Spring 2022
Multi-day virtual conference highlighting treatment and research carried out by graduate students across the continent.  

Care and Identification of Photographs

Fall 2020
7-week course taught online by photograph conservator Gawain Weaver of Gawain Weaver Art Conservation

Gold Leaf Restoration of Gilded Frames and Furniture

Winter 2020
8-week course taught online by master gilder Charles Douglas of Charles Douglas Gilding.

2020 WEBINARS

• December            
  • Form Follows Function: A Look at the Conservation of Conventional Objects | UCLA/Getty Conservation Conversations series | Brittany Cox, horological conservator at Memoria Technica    
  • Radiocarbon Dating for Conservators | Practical Science for Conservators series | Dr Gregory Hodgins, director of the University of Arizona’s Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Lab
  • Decolonizing Collections and Prioritizing Community Partnerships | AIC’s Social Justice and Conservation series | panelists Dr Melanie Adams, director of the Anacostia Community Museum; Joel Garcia, artist, arts administrator, and cultural organizer; and Brandie Macdonald, director of Decolonizing Initiatives at the Museum of Us
  • Archaeology Group Emerging Professionals project presentations | The Institute of Conservation’s Emerging Professionals Network | presenters Amanda Berg; Andrea Diaz, Noe Valtierra, and Julia Jiskot; Clare McQuillan; and Heather Stewart
  • Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott | Portland Art Museum’s Art & Conversation series | Erin Christovale, associate curator at the Hammer Museum and leader of Black Radical Imagination
  • Nineteenth-century Retouching Techniques | George Eastman Museum’s GEM at Home series | Mark Osterman, process historian
  • Not Just Cameras | GEM’s Focus 45 series | Erin Fisher, collections manager     
• November         
  • Never Assume: Stories of Artistic Idiosyncrasies and Scholarly Biases | Institute of Fine Arts Samuel H Kress lecture series | Elise Effmann Clifford, head of paintings conservation at the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
  • Heritage Conservation in a Changing World: The Work of the Getty Conservation Institute | UCLA/Getty Conservation Conversations series | Jeanne Marie Teutonico, associate director of Strategy and Special Initiatives at GCI            
  • Making it Last: The Art and Science of Preserving Olana’s Paper and Photographic Collections | Olana Subject Specialist series | Michelle Phillips, paper conservator at the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation
  • See Color, Say Color | Datacolor Color Competence series | Kenny Thomas, senior application specialist, and Philip Ruggiero, senior application specialist
  • Calculating Color | Datacolor Color Competence series | Kenny Thomas, senior application specialist; and Philip Ruggiero, senior application specialist
  • Whistler’s Labour-Intensive Evanescence | Icon Paintings Group online talk | Dr Joyce Hill Stoner, professor and paintings conservator at WUDPAC
  • A Photographic Truth | GEM’s Focus 45 series | Mark Osterman, historic processes historian
  • Emerging Conservation Professionals in Private Practice | AIC’s Emerging Conservation Professionals Network | panelists Meaghan Perry, objects and variable media conservator; Tish Brewer, book and paper conservator; and Emily Wroczynski, assistant conservator at Whitten & Proctor Fine Art Conservation
  • Indian Ink? Chinese Ink Sticks (墨) Reinterpreted in 19th century Britain | Washington Conservation Guild | Tammy Hong, Andrew W. Mellon artists' materials intern in conservation at the National Gallery of Art         
  •  Early Silver Processes | GEM’s GEM at Home series | Mark Osterman, historic process specialist
  • History Should Make You Uncomfortable Symposium | The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture | Sessions included Cultural Consumption, Colonialism, and Nationalism in an Egyptian Alabaster Scarab Beetle by Alexandra Harter; and Immeasurable Presence: Art and Feminicides in Ciudad Juarez by Marina Avia Estrada
  • Plastics in Peril: Focus on Conservation of Polymeric Materials in Cultural Heritage Conference | The University of Cambridge Museums and Leibniz Research Museums | Sessions included Preserving and recovering the original: Developing conservation treatments for damaged plastic artifacts by Anna Lagana; and Challenges and chances in surveying plastic objects in an industrial heritage collection: A visual atlas of damage phenomena in plastics by Till Krieg, Cristian Mazzon, and Elena Gómez-Sánchez
• October
  • Redox of Cellulose and Natural Dyes | Practical Science for Conservators series | Chris Stavroudis, paintings conservator; and Luke Addington, furniture and wooden artifacts conservator
  • Thinking Through Culture: Six Practical Steps to Addressing Race in Museums | Texas Historical Commission | Aaron Ambroso, post-graduate interpretive fellow at MFA Houston
  • Conservation of the Stone Monuments of Petra: An Ongoing Research Project of the Faculty of Archaeology and Anthropology at Yarmouk University | UCLA/Getty Conservation Conversations series | Professor Ziad Al-Saad, professor of conservation and management at Yarmouk University
  • Reassessing Rembrandt in the Mauritshuis Collection | American Friends of the Mauritshuis and Friends of CODART | Martine Gosselink, executive director; and Quentin Buvelot, senior curator
  • Contested Monuments | AIC’s Social Justice and Conservation series | panelists Dr. Renee Ater, public scholar and author; Brent Leggs, executive director of the African American Cultural Action Fund at the National Trust for Historic Preservation; and Ada Pinkston, artist, educator, and cultural organizer
  • Spirit Photography: History and Creation | GEM’s Focus 45 series | Nick Brandreth, process specialist, and Heather A. Shannon, associate curator
  • Virtual tour of the textile lab at the Textile Museum at George Washington University Museum | AIC’s ECPN and Textiles Specialty Group | Maria Fusco, chief conservator and head of the textile lab
• September
  • Practical Science for Conservators lecture series introduction | Chris Stavroudis, paintings conservator; and Luke Addington, furniture and wooden artifacts conservator

ADDITIONAL COURSES & CONFERENCES

• 2015
  • Where Artifact Meets Exhibition: Preservation and Exhibit Design two-day workshop | Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts
  • Partners in History: Telling the Pennsylvania Story | PA Museums Annual Conference held over two days | Sessions included Collections Inventory: Where It’s At, by Ellen Endslow, director of collections/curator at the Chester County Historical Society, Dodie Robbins, collections manager at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania, and Lauren Jaeger, museum curator for PHMC Bureau of Historic Sites and Museums; and How Beer Saved my Site: Building Community Connections and Audiences Outside of Traditional Membership, by Sarah DiSantis, executive director at Morgan Log House, and Douglas Miller, site director at PHMC/Pennsbury Manor
  • Processing 101: Introduction to Basic Archival Arrangement and Description workshop | Historical Society of Pennsylvania’s Small Archives Forums
• 2014
  • Basics of Archives four-week course | HSP’s Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archives Repositories | Celia Caust-Ellenbogen, senior project surveyor for HCI-PSAR
  • Integrated Pest Management for Cultural Institutions | CCAHA’s Collections Care Training series | John Simmons, president of Museologica
  •  Protecting Collections: Disaster Prevention, Planning, and Response two-part program | New Jersey Collections Care Network and IMLS | Laura Hortz Stanton, director of preservation services at CCAHA; and Renee Wolcott, book conservator at CCAHA
• 2013
  • Museum Storage Wars: Designing Creative Collections Storage | Sustaining Places workshop | Nicole Belolan and Jodi Frederkisen, Museum Studies graduate students at the University of Delaware; and Michele Anstine, assistant CEO at the Delaware Historical Society
  • Preserving your Photographic Collections | CCAHA’s Collections Care Training series | Rachel Wetzel, photograph conservator at CCAHA
  • Sustainable Preservation Practices | IPI’s Sustainable Preservation Practices for Managing Storage Environments series | James Reilly, director of IPI
  • Practical Approaches to Environmental Control | IPI’s Sustainable Preservation Practices for Managing Storage Environments series | Richard Kerschner, director of preservation and conservation at the Shelburne Museum
  • Investigate your HVAC System and Identify Potential Energy Savings | IPI’s Sustainable Preservation Practices for Managing Storage Environments series | Peter Herzog, Herzog/Wheeler & Associates
  • Dealing with Summer Heat and Humidity | IPI’s Sustainable Preservation Practices for Managing Storage Environments series | James Reilly, director of IPI
  • Environmental Management: Stewardship and Sustainability | Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts | Richard Kerschner, director of preservation and conservation at the Shelburne Museum; Michael Henry, principal engineer/architect at Watson & Henry; James M. Reilly, director of IPI
  • Best Practices for Collecting and Analyzing Environmental Data | IPI’s Sustainable Preservation Practices for Managing Storage Environments series | Shae Trewin, preservation environment specialist at IPI
  • The Fundamentals of HVAC: What Shapes the Storage Environment | IPI’s Sustainable Preservation Practices for Managing Storage Environments series | Jeremy Linden, preservation environment specialist at IPI
  •  Understanding the Role of Temperature, Relative Humidity, and Dew Point in Creating a Sustainable Preservation Environment | IPI’s Sustainable Preservation Practices for Managing Storage Environments series | Jeremy Linden, preservation environment specialist at IPI
  •  Dealing with Winter Dryness | IPI’s Sustainable Preservation Practices for Managing Storage Environments series | Jeremy Linden, preservation environment specialist at IPI
  • Care of Natural History Collections | CCAHA’s Collections Care Training series | John Simmons, president of Museologica
  • The Evolution of New Standards: Defining an Optimal and Sustainable Preservation Environment in the 21st Century | IPI’s Sustainable Preservation Practices for Managing Storage Environments series | James Reilly, director of IPI