AIC's 52nd Annual Meeting

Blair is a Painting Conservator for ArtCare Conservation and is primarily based in their NYC studio. She has two BA in Art History and History from American University, Washington, D.C., as well as a Master of Arts with Distinction in the Conservation of Fine Art Easel Paintings Conservation from Northumbria University, UK. Her MA research dissertation focused on combining Aquazol with novel gelling agents as a lining adhesive for canvas paintings. Blair specializes in Southern European Old Master paintings, and over-sized paintings.

Previous positions include an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Painting Conservation at the Detroit Institute of Arts and fellowships at The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida. Blair also worked at the National Gallery of Ireland, and various Smithsonian Institution branches such as the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution Archives, and the Museum Conservation Institute. Her presentations at AIC and ICOM-CC conferences include Titian’s painting methods, Artemisia Gentileschi’s materials and techniques, and modifying frame rebates for warped panel paintings. Bl... Read more

J. Luca Ackerman studied photography at the Rhode Island School of Design, Massachusetts College of Art and earned a Bachelors degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Luca joined the staff at The Better Image® after graduating from FAMU in Prague, Czech Republic, with a Masters degree in Photograph Conservation.

Lisa Ackerman is currently an associate conservator in the Objects Conservation Department at the Art Institute of Chicago where she is focused on wooden architectural elements, furniture, decorative arts and objects associated with the European and Asian collections. She joined the Art Institute as a two year project conservator, restoring a late 17th century Gibbons overmantel and has stayed on permanently. She previously spent 3 years at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City working on wooden objects for the renovation of the British Galleries. Lisa was the WAG Program Chair for the... Read more

Lisa Ackerman is an Associate Conservator of Objects at the Art Institute of Chicago, where she restored a Grinling Gibbons overmantle from the Cassiobury House, Hertfordshire, England, ca. 1680s. She is currently overseeing the conservation needs of the Applied Arts of Europe and Asian curatorial departments. Previously, she was employed by the Metropolitan Museum of Art as an assistant conservator for the renovation of the British Galleries where she was part of the team responsible for the conservation of the Cassiobury House Staircase. She also focused on the mantelpiece wall from the Star... Read more

Graduate, Institute of Fine Arts Conservation Center, New York University, specializing in book and paper conservation.

Ayaka Ajiki is a Conservator from the Archives Conservation Lab at the National Archives of Singapore (part of National Library Board). She conducts interventive conservation on paper-based records and support preventive conservation work undertaken by the department, ensuring paper-based library and archival records are conserved according to the conservation best practices. Ayaka also drives efforts curating training for library and archives staff in collection care, conservation consultations and outreach engagement.

Ana Alba is a painting conservator in private practice and specializes in the conservation of 19th Century, modern and contemporary works. She previously worked for Luca Bonetti Corp., and was the William R. Leisher Fellow in the Conservation and Research of Modern Paintings at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. She has also held internships at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and the Wadsworth Atheneum. Ana is a 2009 graduate from the Art Conservation Department at Buffalo State College.

Passionate about dismantling barriers and fostering inclusive communities, Alisha Andrews is a dynamic force for equity initiatives. With over a decade of experience in health, education, veterans' affairs, and organizational culture, Alisha's expertise extends far beyond theory - she's an action-driven practitioner. Through her strategic community partnerships and her work with the US government, higher education, and nonprofits, Alisha has honed a sharp understanding of equitable change management. Join her in envisioning a future where every voice is heard, and every opportunity is accessible... Read more

Ella Andrews is the Andrew W. Mellon Advanced Fellow in Objects Conservation at Emory University’s Michael C. Carlos Museum. She received an M.S. in Conservation for Archaeology and Museums and an M.A. in Principles of Conservation from University College London subsequent to a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She has previously worked at The Fitzwilliam Museum, Archaeology South-East, and UCL Institute of Archaeology. She has worked as a conservator on archaeological projects in the United States, United Kingdom, Israel/Palestine, Greece, and is currently... Read more

Rachael Perkins Arenstein is a Professional Associate member of the American Institute for Conservation and Fellow in IIC. She is a principal of A.M. Art Conservation, LLC, the private practice that she co-founded in 2009. She has worked at the Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem, the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, the American Museum of Natural History and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She completed internships at the British Museum and the Israel Museum as well as other international institutions. Rachael's degree in art conservation... Read more

Jessica Arista received her M.S. in Art Conservation with a speciality in objects conservation from the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation in 2010. During graduate school she completed internships at the National Gallery of Art, Kaman-Kalehöyük excavation in Turkey, and the Walters Art Museum.
From 2009 to 2013 she worked at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore in various capacities - as a graduate intern, a Samuel H. Kress Fellow, and an assistant objects conservator. Jessica is currently an assistant objects conservator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston...

Julie Arslanoglu is a Research Scientist in the Department of Scientific Research at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. She investigates the identification, interaction, and degradation of natural and synthetic organic materials including paints, coatings, and adhesives, using mass-spectrometric, imaging, immunological and DNA techniques. She is co-founder of Art Bio Matters, a coalition of scientists, conservators, historians and curators focused on biological materials used to create cultural heritage, and ARt and Cultural HEritage: Natural Organic Polymers by Mass Spectrometry (ARCHE), a partnership... Read more

Tatiana Ausema holds an MS from the Winterthur/University of Delaware program in Art Conservation, specializing in paintings and modern materials.

Bridging the worlds of objects and textile conservation, Baas previously has worked in conservation labs at the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, the Barnes Foundation, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and Historic New England. She is a graduate of the SUNY Buffalo’s Masters Program in Art Conservation, where she specialized in objects conservation. Before pursuing conservation, Baas obtained her first masters in Museum Science from Texas Tech University, and worked in a variety of collection management and exhibition... Read more

Blair Bailey is currently the Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Painting Conservation at the Detroit Institute of Arts. She holds two Bachelor of Arts degrees in Art History and History from American University, Washington, D.C. and graduated with distinction from the Northumbria University Master of Arts in the Conservation of Fine Art- Easel Paintings program. Ms. Bailey previously worked at The Ringling (Sarasota, FL), the National Gallery of Ireland, and in various Smithsonian Institution branches such as the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution Archives, and the Museum Conservation... Read more

Clara was a conservation technician in special collec ons at Harvard’s Weissman Preserva on Center before starting her graduate studies. She attended Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts where she received a BA in Art History and was a historic collections intern in the college’s special collections, archives, and conservation lab. During her undergraduate studies, Clara also had summer internships at both The Frick Art Reference Library in New York City and the Arkansas History Commission in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Saiful Bakhri, Institut Konservasi Founder and Conservator; Graduate Student at UCLA Ph.D. Program in Conservation of Material Culture. Through UCLA, he seeks to address the cultural importance and physical production of traditional materials for conservation treatment to better meet the environmental, social, and cultural needs of non-Western communities and how they can be incorporated into Western practice. Previously, he worked as a conservator for three years at the Bali Cultural Heritage Preservation Office, Gianyar, Bali, a technical unit responsible for the conservation of cultural heritage... Read more

Education

B.A. Wellesley (1971)
M.A. and Diploma in Conservation New York University Institute of Fine Arts (1979)
Additional coursework: North Carolina State University, College of Textiles

Research Specialties and Interests

Interested in coloration of textiles and in the evidence of past technologies on historic textiles. Research specialties include work on finishes, surfactants, storage systems, climate, and exhibition as they affect the preservation of textile collections. Responsibilities include being licensed (Maryland) for fumigation, research and demonstration in order to be able to provi... Read more

Mgr. art. Kitti Baráthová is a photograph conservator based in Slovakia. She is a Department of Restoration and Conservation graduate at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design (AFAD) in Bratislava, who specialises in paper and photograph conservation. Since 2019 she has assisted at teaching at the Department of Restoration at AFAD in the Photograph Conservation Studio, lecturing courses such as Historical Photographic Techniques - Theory and Practice. In 2022 she started her PhD studies under the supervision of Associate Professor Mgr. art. Janka Blaško Križanová ArtD. Her research focuses m... Read more

Dr. Barger has worked in the field of conservation for over forty years in various capacities as a conservation scientist, an educator both on the university level and for professional development for non-conservators, and as as a field services consultant to small museums and archives. She taught at Johns Hopkins University In the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the University of New Mexico, in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. She was the manager of the Small Museum Development Project and the director of Museum Development Associates, both organizations aimed... Read more

Graduate Student, Photographic Preservation and Collections Management, University of Rochester in collaboration with the George Eastman House

Native of Virginia, earned BFA in Art History/Museum Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University 1988, have been working as a framer since 1983, first conservation-related experiences were studying at VCU (Laurence Pace) and lab assistant (Cleo Mullins). Relocated to San Francisco and began employment at Sterling Art Services in 1988. Company was established in 1981; and became owner in 1991. Our focus is on creating museum quality frame packages, couple with excellent structural considerations and art-historical appropriate frame designs which lean heavily on hand-finished frames constructed from... Read more

El.En is the parent company of an international group of companies developing and producing laser systems for medicine, industry, and conservation of artworks. El.En. offers in Italy and abroad the widest range of solutions dedicated to laser cleaning of Cultural Heritage: El.En.'s lasers are continuously optimized, in collaboration with the most important National Research Centers, to offer restorers handy and reliable laser systems for their daily conservation practice.

Lucia Bay joined the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) as the Project Assistant Conservator of Paintings in 2016 to study and treat the 1520 Descent from the Cross by Joos van Cleve. Since 2018 she has been working on paintings in preparation for a 2020 installation of the new American galleries. Lucia trained at the Courtauld Institute of Art in the Conservation of Easel Paintings, completing her postgraduate diploma in 2016. Previously she received a B.A. Fine art from University of California Los Angeles and worked as a technician in painting conservation at the Art Institute of Chicago and the... Read more

Prior to enrolling in the Conservation Program of the HTW, University of Applied Sciences in Berlin, Reinhard apprenticed as a Ship-Builder in Hamburg (1993 to 1996), and completed internships in the Conservation Departments of several museums in Germany. He was a Fellow at the Swiss Institute of Art Research (SIK), Zurich, Switzerland, in 2001, and completed his training as an Objects Conservator in 2002. He holds a graduate degree in the Conservation of Objects. Reinhard joined the Museum Tinguely in Basel, Switzerland from 2002 to 2012 as Head of Conservation. Reinhard was a Participant of the... Read more

Vincent Beltran joined GCI Science in 2002. He has been an active participant in a range of research projects including the mechanical characterization of historic materials, the effect of reduced oxygen environments on color change, evaluations of packing case performance during transport, and assessments of environmental management systems in hot and humid climates. He is a co-author with Shin Maekawa and Michael C. Henry of Environmental Management for Collections: Alternative Conservation Strategies for Hot and Humid Climates. He holds a BS in General Chemistry from the University of California... Read more

Anikó Bezur received a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Arizona. As a doctoral candidate, she completed internships at the Arizona State Museum's Conservation Laboratory, the Smithsonian Institution's Museum Conservation Institute, and the Getty Conservation Institute's Museum Services Laboratory. Following her appointment at the Art Conservation Department at Buffalo State College as a lecturer and then assistant professor of conservation science, she held the position of Associate Conservation Scientist at the Art Institute. From 2008 to 2012 she was the first... Read more

Sean Billups holds a BA in History and a BA in Art Conservation, and is a MA student in the Professional Conservation program at Cardiff University. Sean is studying objects conservation, and has a particular interest in imaging science and software tools. Through creative application of emerging manufacturing techniques, software, and technical research, Sean focuses on creating accessible tools for use in the field of conservation.

Kathryn Boodle is a Senior Conservator with the Northeast Document Conservation Center where she has worked since 2015 and a Professional Associate of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC). She has studied and worked in the conservation field since 2010, beginning as an intern at a private conservation lab in Columbia, SC. Kathryn holds a BA from Columbia College (SC) in Studio Arts, with minors in Art History and Chemistry. She earned her MA in Art Conservation at the University of the Arts (Camberwell College of the Arts,) London. She is the current Communications... Read more

Courtney Books is an emerging art conservator specializing in the conservation of easel paintings and murals. She received her M.A.C from Queen’s University (2018) and holds an M.A. in Art History from McGill University (2013). Currently a Mellon fellow at the Balboa Art Conservation Center in San Diego, Courtney has also trained at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston), Gianfranco Pocobene Studio (Boston), the Prado Museum (Madrid) and Parma Conservation (Chicago). Interest in the biodeterioration and bioremediation of artworks has fueled Courtney’s collaborative research with practicing... Read more

Christian de Brer (he/his) is Head of Conservation at the Fowler Museum at UCLA. He has a MA from the UCLA/Getty Program in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage and is a Ph.D. candidate in Conservation of Material Culture at UCLA. His dissertation focuses on the provenance and analysis of ancient West Mexican ceramics in the holdings of Mexican and Southern Californian institutions. His research reflects on source community involvement in conservation decision-making.

Mary Broadway received her M.A. and Advanced Certificate of Study in Art Conservation from Buffalo State College in Buffalo, NY. She has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts at the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts and the Sherman Fairchild Foundation at the Morgan Library and Museum where her focus was on the treatment of ancient papyrus and Italian master drawings. Currently she is the Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in paper conservation at the Art Institute of Chicago where she has been studying and treating the Institute's collection of Paul Gauguin's graphic... Read more

Shannon A. Brogdon-Grantham is the photograph and paper conservator at the Smithsonian’s Museum Conservation Institute (MCI). She obtained her MS from the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation where she specialized in photograph conservation with minor concentrations in paper and preventive conservation. She holds a BA in art from Spelman College. At MCI her primary areas of research are understanding historic and contemporary photographic and papermaking techniques, preventive care of photographs and works on paper, characterizing materials used in the manufacture of... Read more

JP is the Regenstein Conservator for Pacific Anthropology at The Field Museum, Chicago. He holds degrees in both Archaeological Conservation and Computer Science. He started working on 3D imaging of museum collections in 2006 and has been doing CT, laser scanning, and photogrammetry ever since.

Thom Burns is a technical art historian in Boston. Currently, Thom is a curatorial consultant at Mount Auburn Cemetery and a digitization technician at the Harvard|Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He completed his master's degree in technical art history at the University of Glasgow after previously receiving his bachelor's in the history of art at Yale University. Thom specializes in nineteenth-century British and American art, with a focus on queer artists. Previously, he worked in various roles at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Royal Insitute of Architects... Read more

Kelly is a conservator with over 10 years of experience as an archaeologist and conservator working primarily overseas. She is currently based in our Ottawa, ON office where she manages our Canada based projects. She brings a unique perspective to CSI based on her previous work experience, which largely involved excavation, collections management, conservation and training on a range of materials and projects in England, Egypt, France, Greece and Turkey.

Kelly holds an MSc in Conservation for Archaeology and Museums (2009) and an MA in Principles of Conservation (2006) from the Institute of Ar... Read more

Irena Calinescu is an objects conservator who has been in private practice since 1999. She received an MA in Art Conservation from Buffalo State College in 1993. She has previously worked at LACMA, the Fowler Museum, and the J. Paul Getty Museum, and continues on staff at LACMA part-time.

María Elisabet Carnero is conservator of painting at the Dr. Julio Marc Provincial Historical Museum in Rosario, Argentina. She carries out the treatments on the paintings in the collection and conservation tasks in exhibitions and loans. She also held the position of conservation at the Rosa Galisteo Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe. She has fulfilled the role of coordinator of the Conservation and Restoration departments of the Provincial Museums, being in charge of training professionals in the areas and equipping the same. Carnero has studied the Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Universidad Nacional... Read more

Alison Castaneda holds a M.A. in Fashion and Textile Studies from the Fashion Institute of Technology. She is an associate member of the American Institute of Conservation and is the author of multiple posters and presentations, involving synthetic leather, an Islamic talismanic shirt, the Winnie-the-Pooh toys, and the degradation of iron-tan are dyed textiles. She has interned at the New York Historical Society and the Textile Conservation Laboratory at St. John the Divine. From 2010-2017 she worked at the Textile Conservation Workshop in South Salem, NY and in 2018 completed a Kress Conservation... Read more

Cayetana Castillo is the Associate Vice President of Collections and Loans at the Art Institute of Chicago. In her role, Cayetana oversees the management of the collection and loaned objects, defining processes that ensure compliance with the museum’s policies as well as legal obligations to borrowers, lenders, donors, and sellers.

In four distinct areas––collections, loans and exhibitions, art preparation and logistics, and collections systems –– Cayetana’s team implements policies that govern the day-to-day application of museum best practices through strategic and innovative applications of data and new technologies... Read more

Sarah Casto is Photograph and Paper Conservator at The Ohio State University Libraries. She received her M.A./C.A.S. in Art Conservation from SUNY Buffalo State University in 2017 and BFA in Photography from Bowling Green State University in 2005.

Michelle Chan joined the Science Lab within the Conservation Department at M+ Museum in December 2022. She holds an MPhil in Chemistry from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, which she earned in 2021. Prior to her role at M+, Michelle completed a post-graduate conservation traineeship at various museums under the Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD) in Hong Kong, including the Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong Heritage Museum, and Hong Kong Museum of History.

Michelle's passion lies in applying scientific principles to the field of art and heritage conservation. Her current work is dedicated to exploring and understanding the diverse materials used in contemporary artworks and artist practices through analytical research... Read more

ShuHan Chang is currently a conservator at Nishio Conservation Studio in Washington D.C. since 2015. She mainly conserves Chinese and Japanese scrolls and folding screens, handscrolls, prints, watercolors, and documents. She was born and raised in Taiwan. She earned B.A. degree in Japanese Paintings from Tunghai University. She received M.A. degree in Conservation of Asian Paintings and Paper from Tainan National University of Arts (TNNUA), in Taiwan, in 2013. During her graduate programs, she interned at National Taiwan Museum of Fine Artns, Historical Object Conservation Research Center in National... Read more

Jessica Chasen is an assistant conservator in Decorative Arts and Sculpture Conservation at the J. Paul Getty Museum. Jessica earned an M.S. in Art Conservation from Winterthur / University of Delaware with a specialization in objects conservation and a minor in painted surfaces. Jessica spent her post-graduate year as an intern at the Getty and split her third-year internship between the Museum of Modern Art and the Rijksmuseum. Prior to her graduate training, Jessica earned a B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles and spent several years working as a conservation technician for the... Read more

Jiuan Jiuan Chen joined the faculty in the Art Conservation Department at SUNY Buffalo State in the Fall of 2012 as the professor for Conservation Imaging, Technical Examination and Documentation. She is a graduate of Class of 2001 from the same program. She previously interned or worked at the Northeast Document Conservation Center, the Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site, the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, Heugh-Edmondson Conservation Services, the National Gallery of Canada, the National Archives of Canada, the George Eastman House, and Paul Messier LLC. Professor Chen always... Read more

Wing yi Cheung is a second-year Master of Cultural Materials Conservation student at the University of Melbourne. She holds a Bachelor of Chemistry from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Wing had worked as a conservation project assistant, specialized in painting and paper for two years in Hong Kong.

I am workin in private practice in France, since I am gratuated in 2010 from the French National Institute for Cultural Heritage.

Joshua Churchill is the Assistant Manager of the Collections Technical team at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA). He has worked with SFMOMA since 2002 providing technical support for the installation and conservation of media works in the museum’s collection, including support on-site and abroad for large-scale international touring exhibitions William Kentridge: Five Themes (2009-2012) and Nam June Paik(2019-2022). Joshua is also a practicing media artist and musician, activities that intersect with and influence his work with SFMOMA.

Elise Effmann Clifford is the Head Paintings Conservator at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF) where she has been since 2007. Prior to working at FAMSF, she was the Assistant Conservator of Paintings at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, and an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Paintings Conservation at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. She received her M.A. in Art History and Diploma in Conservation from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University in 2000, after completing her final year internship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

I have worked at Boxart Inc., a fine art packing and crating company, since 1997.
In that time I have packed art in museums, galleries, artist’s studios, auction
houses, and in private collections. I am currently the Director of Production at
Boxart, where I both help to design and formulate packing solutions for art
works, as well as manage the day-to-day operations of running a crate shop of
carpenters and a crew of on-site and in-house art handlers and packing
technicians . I also have a hand in helping direct the overall mission for Boxart,
and to this end participate as much as possible in on... Read more

Willow Collins is an Exhibits Specialist with Smithsonian Exhibits.

Susan Costello received her BA in chemistry from College of the Holy Cross and her MS from the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation. After graduating, she completed fellowships at the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, Harvard Art Museums and the Worcester Art Museum. Currently, she is a conservator of objects and sculpture at the Straus Center where she is responsible for the examination, treatment and technical study of three-dimensional objects spanning the collection. Her research interests include the preservation of plastic objects and ancient art... Read more

Mary Coughlin is an Associate Professor in Museum Studies at The George Washington University in Washington, DC where she has taught preventive conservation in- person and online since 2006. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Historic Preservation from Mary Washington College and her Masters of Science from the Winterthur / University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation. Before teaching full time, Mary worked for five years in the Objects Conservation Laboratory at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History where she conserved objects as diverse as FDR’s leg braces and Star War’s... Read more

Leslie Courtois is a paper conservator with the Library of Virginia. She attended the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Studio Art Centers International (SACI) in Florence, Italy, Parsons School of Design in Paris, France and Virginia Commonwealth University where she received a BFA. She received a Master of Science in Forensic Science with a concentration in imaging of Questioned Documents from VCU in 2004. Leslie has directed the paper conservation lab located within the State Library of Virginia in Richmond for fifteen years. She is a member of the American Institute for Conservation (AIC... Read more

Megan Creamer is the Mellon Fellow in conservation at Historic New England, and graduate of the Centre for Textile Conservation and Technical Art History at the University of Glasgow. She has worked and interned in a variety of roles in private practice conservation, special collections, archives, museums, galleries and biorepositories. She has previously earned an ALM in museum studies from Harvard University Extension School and a BFA in industrial design from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Conservation and research interests include textiles, barkcloth, flags, composite objects... Read more

Jennifer L. Cruise, Ph.D., MA Cons. originally trained as a scientist, taught cellular and molecular biology at the university level, and directed a small research laboratory. She entered conservation as a volunteer assistant in the conservation department of the Minnesota Historical Society, in St. Paul, studied at the Campbell Center for Historic Preservation Studies in Illinois, and obtained an M.A. in the Conservation of Historic Objects from the University of Lincoln, in the United Kingdom, in 2011, during which training she interned with conservators of the U.K. National Trust. Her particular... Read more

Holly Cusack-McVeigh is a Professor of Anthropology and Museum Studies at Indiana University Indianapolis (IUI). She holds appointments as a Public Scholar of Collections and Community Curation and as a Professor of Native American and Indigenous studies. Her research focuses on cultural heritage, repatriation, and toxic heritage. She has worked in the cultural heritage and preservation fields for decades, supporting Native American and Indigenous communities in Alaska, the continental US, Canada, Haiti, New Zealand, Peru, and South Africa.

Cassy Cutulle attended the University of Massachusetts in Boston from 2006 to 2010, graduating summa cum laude with a BA in archaeology and history and a minor in art history. She completed graduate studies at University College London (UCL) from 2011 to 2014, where she obtained an MA degree in Principles of Conservation and an MSc degree in Conservation for Archaeology and Museums. Cassy has recently finished a two-year project in Cyprus, where she managed the preservation of the cargo associated with the Kyrenia Shipwreck. Currently, she is supervising the moth mitigation project as an Assistant... Read more

Rachel Danzing is a paper conservator in private practice in New York City. After she received her MA in art history and diploma in conservation from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University in 1992, Rachel worked in the conservation laboratory at the Brooklyn Museum for over twenty years. She recently established her private practice in Brooklyn, NY, working with various cultural institutions and collectors.

Margo Delidow, Assistant Conservator for the Whitney Museum of American Art completed a Masters of Arts and Certificate of Advanced Study in Conservation from the Art Conservation Program at Buffalo State, The State University of New York. She is a partner at Whryta Contemporary Art Conservation and a Professional Associate Member of AIC.

Margo Delidow, Cy Twombly Conservator for the Whitney Museum of American Art, completed a Masters of Arts and Certificate of Advanced Study in Conservation from the Art Conservation Program at Buffalo State, The State University of New York and a BFA from College for Creative Studies, Detroit, Michigan. She has presented and authored papers on the conservation of collaborative works by Nam Jun Paik and Christo, on the works of Lygia Clark, Yoko Ono, and Lygia Pape, and on the ethics and decision-making of replication within conservation.
margo_delidow@whitney.org

Haddon graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pittsburgh in 2013 with a BS in Chemistry, a second major in History of Art and Architecture, and a minor in Studio Arts. While in school, she interned at The Valspar Corporation and the Carnegie Museum of Art. After graduating, Haddon was an intern and then a technician in the Scientific Research Laboratory at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA), where she analyzed paintings, furniture, and objects including Augustus Saint Gaudens’s Diana, a Ming-dynasty painted wood figure, and the Liberty Bell. With PMA colleagues, she undertook research... Read more

Vu Do is a Fulbright Graduate Fellow in conservation at SUNY Buffalo State University. Originally from Vietnam, he worked as an art educator, artist, and curator before coming to Buffalo. He holds a BFA in painting from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. Vu Do's responsibilities include the discovery, conservation, and curation of 'The Hidden Treasure Collection' by Phan Ke An, a renowned Vietnamese painter of the 20th century. He possesses a keen interest in the study of the manufacture and conservation of East Asian lacquer artifacts. Upon completing his graduate studies... Read more

Kari is objects conservator at the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas, where she is responsible for the care of three-dimensional art ranging from modern and contemporary works to antiquities and ethnographic objects. Prior to this post, she held a three-year Mellon fellowship at the Worcester Art Museum and completed internships at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Barnes Foundation, the National Museums of Malawi, the National Museum of the American Indian, and the National Museum of African Art. She holds an MA/CAS in art conservation from SUNY Buffalo State College, and a BA in anthropology... Read more

Library & Archival Materials Conservator

Beth Edelstein is currently Conservator of Objects at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Previously, she was an Associate Conservator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, focusing on the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas. Beth earned her M.A. from the Conservation Center, Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, and was an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at the Cloisters, studying Spanish polychrome tomb sculpture. Beth is co-chair with Sarah Barack of the K-12 Outreach Committee for the American Institute for Conservation.