Conservation
Archaeology
Conservation Center Lecturers and Affiliated Faculty
Institute Lecturers for the Conservation Center
2014 – 2015
Drew Anderson
Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Sarah Barack
Objects Conservator and Co-Proprietor, SBE Conservation
John Childs
Head of Conservation Services, National September 11 Memorial & Museum
Jean Dommermuth
Senior Paintings Conservator, ArtCare NYC; Conservation Consultant, Villa La Pietra
Maria Fredericks
Drue Heinz Book Conservator, Thaw Conservation Center, The Morgan Library & Museum; Conservation Consultant, Villa La Pietra
Christine Frohnert
Conservator of Contemporary Art, Modern Materials and Media, Bek & Frohnert, LLC
Christine Giuntini
Conservator, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Alexis Hagadorn
Head of Conservation, Columbia University Libraries, Columbia University
Nora Kennedy
Sherman Fairchild Conservator of Photographs, Sherman Fairchild Center for Works on Paper and Photograph Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Dr. Marco Leona
David H. Koch Scientist in Charge, Department of Scientific Research, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Dianne Dwyer Modestini
Paintings Conservator, Kress Program in Painting Conservation, Conservation Center
Nica Gutman Rieppi
Associate Conservator, Kress Program in Painting Conservation, Conservation Center
Katherine Sanderson
Assistant Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Works on Paper and Photograph Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Suzanne Siano
Paintings Conservator and Proprietor, Modern Art Conservation
Karen Stamm
Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Steven Weintraub
Proprietor, Art Preservation Services
The Samuel H. Kress Program in Paintings Conservation
2014 – 2015
Dianne Dwyer Modestini
Paintings Conservator
Rita Berg
Kress Fellow in Paintings Conservation
Judith Praska Distinguished Visiting Professor in Conservation and Technical Studies
Salvador Muñoz Viñas
Professor of the Conservation Department, Polytechnical University of Valencia, Spain
Additional Conservation Consultants Villa La Pietra
2014 – 2015
Pam Hatchfield
Robert P. and Carol T. Henderson Head of Objects Conservation, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Jack Soultanian
Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Deborah Trupin
Textile Conservator, NY State Bureau of Historic Sites
George Wheeler
Director of Conservation Research, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University
Guest Lecturers to the Conservation Center
2014 – 2015
Charles Agro
Packing and Art Services, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Julie Arslanoglu
Associate Research Scientist, Department of Scientific Research, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Nancy Ash
Senior Conservator of Works of Art on Paper, The Philadelphia Museum of Art
Emeline Baude
Assistant Conservator, The Cloisters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Reinhard Bek
Time-Based Media Conservator, Bek & Frohnert, LLC
Isabelle Brajer
Senior Research Conservator, National Museum of Denmark
Susan Brown
Assistant Curator of Textiles, Cooper Hewitt Design Museum
Roy S. Berns, PhD
R.S. Hunter Professor in Color Science, Appearance, and Technology, Rochester Institute of Technology
Rebecca Capua
Assistant Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Works on Paper and Photograph Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Federico Caró
Associate Research Scientist, Department of Scientific Research, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Francesca Casadio
Conservation Scientist, Art Institute of Chicago
Gerald Cloud
Clark Librarian, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA
Dan Colen
Artist
Lucy Commoner
Head of Conservation, Cooper Hewitt Design Museum
Corey D’Augustine
Paintings Conservator
Pete Dandridge
Objects Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Julia Day
Conservator, The Frick Collection
Dr. John Delaney
Senior Imaging Scientist, National Gallery of Art, Washington
Margo Delidow
Objects Conservator and Co-Proprietor, Whryta Contemporary Art Conservation
Joyce Denney
Assistant Curator, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Barbara Duggan
Textile Conservator
Beth Edelstein
Objects Conservator (part-time), Sherman Fairchild Center for Works on Paper and Photograph Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Conservator and Co-Proprietor, SBE Conservation
Michael Gallagher
Sherman Fairchild Conservator in Charge, Sherman Fairchild Paintings Conservation Center, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Leslie Ransick Gat
Objects Conservator and Proprietor, Art Conservation Group
Dr. Jim Harris
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Teaching Curator, Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Oxford
Dr. David J. Heeger
Professor of Psychology, NYU
Dr. James D. Janowski
Professor of Philosophy, Hampton-Sydney College, VA
Lucretia Kargère
Conservator, The Cloisters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Stephen Koob
Conservator, The Corning Museum of Glass
Kate Lewis
Media Conservator, Museum of Modern Art
Barbara Lemmen
Senior Photograph Conservator, Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts
Margaret S. Livingstone, PhD
Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School
Dr. Sarah Lowengard
Associate Professor, The Cooper Union
Stephanie Lussier
Paper Conservator
Indre McCraw
Glass Painter
Michael Alan Miller
Associate Paintings Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Paintings Conservation Center, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Denyse Montegut
Associate Chair and Professor, Fashion and Textiles Studies Department, School of Graduate Studies,
Fashion Institute of Technology
Rachel Mustalish
Paper Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Works on Paper and Photograph Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Vicki Parry
Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Jeff Peachey
Book Conservator
Joanna Phillips
Associate Conservator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Dwight Primiano
Photographer
Mervin Richard
Director of Conservation, National Gallery of Art, Washington
Carolyn Riccardelli
Associate Objects Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Dr. Ashok Roy
Chief Scientist and Director of Scientific Research, The National Gallery, London
Deborah Schorsch
Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Kerith Koss Schrager
Objects Conservator
Batyah Shtrum
Objects Conservator and Co-Proprietor, SBE Conservation
Matthew Skopek
Associate Conservator, Whitney Museum of American Art
Reba Fishman Snyder
Associate Paper Conservator, Thaw Conservation Center, The Morgan Library & Museum
Donna Strahan
Head of Conservation and Scientific Research, Freer & Sackler Galleries
Jens Stenger, PhD
Associate Conservation Scientist, Yale University
Melissa Tan
Conservation graduate student, IFA-CC-NYU
Norman H. Tennent
Emeritus Professor (Conservation Science), University of Amsterdam
Lindsey Tyne
Assistant Paper Conservator, Thaw Conservation Center, The Morgan Library & Museum
Carolyn Tomkiewicz
Paintings Conservator
Paul Whitmore
Director, Aging Diagnostics Lab, Yale University
Glenn Wharton
Clinical Associate Professor, Museum Studies, 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
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