Conservation
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Conservation Center Lecturers and Affiliated Faculty
Institute Lecturers for the Conservation Center
2016 – 2017
Shauna Young Breatore
Associate Paintings Conservator, Modern Art Conservation
Margo Delidow
Objects Conservator and Co-Proprietor, Whryta Contemporary Art Conservation
Jean Dommermuth
Senior Paintings Conservator, ArtCare NYC; Conservation Consultant, Villa La Pietra
Maria Fredericks
Drue Heinz Book Conservator and Acting Director, The Morgan Library and Museum; Conservation Consultant, Villa La Pietra
Christine Frohnert
Conservator of Contemporary Art, Modern Materials, and Media, Bek & Frohnert, LLC
Leslie Ransick Gat
Objects Conservator and Proprietor, Art Conservation Group
Alexis Hagadorn
Head of Conservation, Columbia University Libraries, Columbia University
Lucie Kinsolving
Paintings Conservator, National Academy Museum
Dr. Marco Leona
David H. Koch Scientist in Charge, Department of Scientific Research, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Eric Meier
Co-Proprietor, Whryta Contemporary Art Conservation
Dianne Dwyer Modestini
Paintings Conservator, Kress Program in Painting Conservation, Conservation Center
Kristin Patterson
Associate Conservator, Modern Art Conservation
Fran Ritchie
Project Conservator, American Museum of Natural History
Suzanne Siano
Paintings Conservator and Proprietor, Modern Art Conservation
Julia Sybalsky
Associate Conservator of Natural Science Collections, American Museum of Natural History
Steven Weintraub
Proprietor, Art Preservation Services
The Samuel H. Kress Program in Paintings Conservation
2016 – 2017
Dianne Dwyer Modestini
Paintings Conservator
Shan Kuang
Kress Fellow in Paintings Conservation
Judith Praska Distinguished Visiting Professor in Conservation and Technical Studies
Lawrence Becker (Fall 2016)
Conservator Emeritus, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Thea Van Oosten (Spring 2017)
Former Conservation Scientist, Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands
Additional Conservation Consultants Villa La Pietra
2016 – 2017
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 in private practice; formerly Textile Conservator, NY State Bureau of Historic Sites
George Wheeler
Research Scholar, Department of Scientific Research, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Senior Scientist, Highbridge Materials Consulting, Pleasantville, NY
Guest Lecturers to the Conservation Center
2016 – 2017
Rachael Perkins Arenstein
A.M. Art Conservation, LLC
Julie Arslanoglu
Associate Research Scientist, Department of Scientific Research, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Sarah Barack
Objects Conservator and Co-Proprietor, SBE Conservation
Reinhard Bek
Time-Based Media Art Conservator, Bek & Frohnert, LLC
Margarita Berg
Associate Paintings Conservator, Midwest Art Conservation Center
Linsly Boyer
Objects Conservator, Art Conservation Group
Lisa Bruno
Carol Lee Shen Chief Conservator, Brooklyn Museum
Rebecca Capua
Associate 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
Lucy Commoner
Head of Conservation Emerita, Cooper Hewitt Design Museum
Lisa Conte
Head of Conservation Services, National September 11 Memorial & Museum
Julia Day
Conservator, The Frick Collection
Dr. John Delaney
Senior Imaging Scientist, National Gallery of Art, Washington
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
Deena Engel
Clinical Professor, Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Computer Science Minors Program, Department of Computer Science, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
David Etzion
Senior Conservation Assistant, Art Conservation Group
Scott Ferguson
Conservation Technician, Modern Art Conservation
Ben Fido-Radin
Media Conservator and Founder, Small Data Industries
Michael Gallagher
Sherman Fairchild Chairman of Paintings Conservation, Sherman Fairchild Paintings Conservation Center, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Jennifer Hickey
Paintings Conservator
Sylvia Jeffriess
Assistant Paintings Conservator, Modern Art Conservation
Mona Jimenez
Associate Arts Professor/Associate Director, Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program, New York University
Nora Kennedy
Sherman Fairchild Conservator in Charge, Photograph Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Stephen Koob
Conservator, The Corning Museum of Glass
Dawn Kriss
Project Objects Conservator, Brooklyn Museum
Pip Laurenson
Head of Collections Care Research, Tate
Kate Lewis
Media Conservator, Museum of Modern Art
Chi-Tien Lui
CTL Electronics, Inc.
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
Time-Based Media Artist
Carol Mancusi-Ungaro
Melva Bucksbaum Associate Director for Conservation and Research, Whitney Museum of American Art
Jennifer Mass
Andrew W. Mellon Professor, Bard Graduate Center
Denyse Montegut
Associate Chair and Professor, Fashion and Textiles Studies Department, School of Graduate Studies,
Fashion Institute of Technology
Giuliana Moretto
Associate Conservator, Contemporary Conservation, Ltd.
Michael Morris
Assistant Objects Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Rachel Mustalish
Paper Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Works on Paper and Photograph Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Peter Oleksik
Associate Media Conservator, Museum of Modern Art
Nathan Otterson
Senior Conservator, Objects Conservation, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Vicki Parry
Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Joanna Phillips
Conservator, Time-based Media, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Christiane Paul
Associate Professor, School of Media Studies, The New School; Adjunct Curator, New Media Arts, Whitney Museum of American Art
Jeff Peachey
Book Conservator
Dwight Primiano
Photographer
Megan Randall
Sculpture Conservation Fellow, Museum of Modern Art
Will Raynolds
Architectural Conservator
Carolyn Riccardelli
Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Mervin Richard
Director of Conservation, National Gallery of Art, Washington
Daniel Rozin
Associate Arts Professor, Interactive Telecommunications Program, New York University
Tina Rivers Ryan
Curatorial Research Assistant, Modern and Contemporary Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gen Saratini
Artist and restorer
Christian Scheidemann
Modern and Contemporary Art Conservator and Proprietor, Contemporary Conservation
Deborah Schorsch
Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Anna Serotta
Assistant Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Batyah Shtrum
Objects Conservator and Co-Proprietor, SBE Conservation
Reba Fishman Snyder
Associate Paper Conservator, The Morgan Library & Museum
Karen Stamm
Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Donna Strahan
Head of Conservation and Scientific Research, Freer & Sackler Galleries
Melissa Tan
Objects Conservator, Chemistry Ph.D. student, New York University
Carolyn Tomkiewicz
Paintings Conservator
Lindsey Tyne
Assistant Paper Conservator, Thaw Conservation Center, The Morgan Library & Museum
Yana van Dyke
Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Works on Paper and Photograph Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Glenn Wharton
Clinical Associate Professor, Museum Studies, New York University
Paul Whitmore
Director, Aging Diagnostics Lab, Yale University
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