Conservation
Archaeology
Conservation Center Lecturers and Affiliated Faculty
Institute Lecturers for the Conservation Center
2011 – 2012
Samantha Alderson
Associate Conservator, American Museum of Natural History
Julie Barten
Conservator of Collections and Exhibitions, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Joan Breton Connelly
Professor of Classics, New York University; Director, Yeronisos Island Excavations (Cyprus)
Jean Dommermuth
Senior Paintings Conservator, ArtCare NYC; Conservation Consultant, Villa La Pietra
Reba Fishman Snyder
Associate Paper Conservator, Thaw Conservation Center, The Morgan Library & Museum
James H. Frantz
Lab Supervisor; Research Scientist, Department of Scientific Research, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Maria Fredericks
Drue Heinz Book Conservator, Thaw Conservation Center, The Morgan Library & Museum
Nica Gutman Rieppi
Associate Conservator, Kress Program in Paintings Conservation, Conservation Center
Charlotte Hale
Paintings Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Paintings Conservation Center, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Nora Kennedy
Sherman Fairchild Conservator of Photographs, Sherman Fairchild Center for Works on Paper and Photograph Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Stephen Kornhauser
Chief Conservator – Museum, New-York Historical Society Museum & Library
Dr. Marco Leona
David H. Koch Scientist in Charge, Department of Scientific Research, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Stephanie Lussier
Paper Conservator
Christopher W. McGlinchey
Sally and Michael Gordon Conservation Scientist, Museum of Modern Art
Dianne Dwyer Modestini
Paintings Conservator, Kress Program in Painting Conservation, Conservation Center
Nancy Odegaard, Ph.D.
Conservator and Head of the Preservation Division, Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona;
Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona
Suzanne Siano
Paintings Conservator and Proprietor, Modern Art Conservation
Steven Weintraub
Proprietor, Art Preservation Services
The Samuel H. Kress Program in Paintings Conservation
2011 – 2012
Dianne Dwyer Modestini
Paintings Conservator
Nica Gutman Rieppi
Associate Conservator
Andrew W. Mellon Faculty Fellow in Conservation Education
2010 – 2012
Margo Delidow
Objects Conservator
Samuel H. Kress Fellow in Technical Art History 2011 – 2012
Sarah Barack
Objects Conservator and Co-Proprietor, SBE Conservation
Additional Conservation Consultants Villa La Pietra
2011 – 2012
Pam Hatchfield
Robert P. and Carol T. Henderson Head of Objects Conservation, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Jack Soultanian, Jr.
Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Deborah Trupin
Textile Conservator, NY State Bureau of Historic Sites
Dr. George Wheeler
Director of Conservation Research, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University
Guest Lecturers to the Conservation Center
2011 – 2012
Rachel Perkins Arenstein
A.M. Art Conservation, LLC
Julie Arslanoglu
Associate Research Scientist, Department of Scientific Research, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Mecka Baumeister
Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Lucy Commoner
Head of Conservation, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
Emilia Cortes
Associate Conservator, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Pete Dandridge
Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Julia Day
Conservator, The Frick Collection
Terry Drayman-Weisser
Director of Conservation, The Walters Art Museum
Barbara Duggan
Collections Manager, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
Christiane Fischer
President and CEO, AXA Art Insurance Corporation
Betty Fiske
Paper Conservator (Retired) Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library; Adjunct Assistant Professor
(Retired), Art Conservation Department, University of Delaware at Winterthur
Franziska Frey
McGhee Professor, School of Print Media, Center for Imaging Science, Rochester Institute of Technology
Christine Frohnert
Conservator for Contemporary Art, Modern Materials, and Media, Bek+Frohnert, LLC
E. Melanie Gifford
Research Conservator for Painting Technology, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Alexis Hagadorn
Head of Conservation, Columbia University Libraries, Columbia University
Patricia Hill
Professor, Chemistry Department, Millersville University, PA
Dr. James D. Janowski
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Hampton-Sydney College, VA
Lucretia Kargère
Conservator, The Cloisters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Larry Keith
Paintings Conservator, National Gallery London
Meg Lowe Craft
Conservator, The Walters Art Museum
Stephen Koob
Conservator, Corning Museum of Glass
John Krill
Senior Paper Conservator (Retired), Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library; Adjunct Associate
Professor (Retired), Art Conservation Department, University of Delaware at Winterthur
Dr. Hae Young Lee
Post-Doctoral Research Scientist, Department of Scientific Research, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Carol Mancusi-Ungaro
Associate Director of Conservation and Research, Whitney Museum of American Art
Denyse Montegut
Associate Chair and Professor, Fashion and Textiles Studies Department, School of Graduate Studies,
Fashion Institute of Technology
Rachel Mustalish
Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Works on Paper and Photograph Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Eleanora Nagy
Conservator, Whitney Museum of American Art
Heather Nodler
Artists Documentation Program Archivist, The Menil Collection, TX
Sarah Nunberg
Objects Conservator
Jeff Peachey
Book Conservator
Lisa Pilosi
Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Jerry Podany
Conservator – Department Head, Antiquities Conservation, J. Paul Getty Museum
Dwight Primiano
Photographer
Leslie Ransick Gat
Objects Conservator and Proprietor, Art Conservation Group
Carolyn Riccardelli
Associate Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Mervin Richard
Director of Conservation, National Gallery of Art, Washington
Katherine Sanderson
Assistant Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Works on Paper and Photograph Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Deborah Schorsch
Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Anna Serotta
Objects Conservator
Dr. Aaron Shugar
Associate Professor of Conservation Science, Art Conservation Department, Buffalo State College, NY
Anthony B. Sigel
Associate Conservator of Objects and Sculpture, Straus Center for Conservation
Robert Simon
Art Historian and Art Dealer, NY
Gabriela Siracusano
Author
Matthew Skopek
Associate Conservator, Whitney Museum of American Art
Milton Sonday
Textile Conservator
Jack Soultanian, Jr.
Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Donna Strahan
Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Carol Stringari
Chief Conservator, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Carolyn Tomkiewicz
Paintings Conservator, Brooklyn Museum
Lindsey Tyne
Assistant Paper Conservator, Thaw Conservation Center, The Morgan Library & Museum
Glenn Wharton
Research Scholar, Museum Studies Program, New York University
Dr. George Wheeler
Director of Conservation Research, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University
Mark Wypyski
Research Scientist, Department of Scientific Research, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Lynda Zycherman
Conservator, Museum of Modern Art
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