Conservation
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Conservation Center Lecturers and Affiliated Faculty
Institute Lecturers for the Conservation Center
2017 – 2018
Samantha Alderson
Conservator, American Museum of Natural History
Lisa Bruno
Carol Lee Shen Chief Conservator, Brooklyn Museum
Jean Dommermuth
Senior Paintings Conservator, ArtCare NYC; Conservation Consultant, Villa La Pietra
Maria Fredericks
Drue Heinz Rare Book Conservator, Acting Director, Thaw Conservation Center, The Morgan Library & Museum; Conservation Consultant, Villa La Pietra
Alexis Hagadorn
Head of Conservation, Columbia University Libraries, Columbia University
Nora Kennedy
Sherman Fairchild Conservator in Charge, Photograph Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Lucie Kinsolving
Paintings Conservator
Kerith Koss Schrager
Objects Conservator and Proprietor, The Found Object
Dr. Marco Leona
David H. Koch Scientist in Charge, Department of Scientific Research, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Tina March
Assistant Conservator, Brooklyn Museum
Dianne Dwyer Modestini
Paintings Conservator, Kress Program in Painting Conservation, Conservation Center
Kristin Patterson
The Joan and John Thalheimer Associate Conservator of Paintings, The Philadelphia Museum of Art
Katherine Sanderson
Assistant Conservator, Photograph Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Steven Weintraub
Proprietor, Art Preservation Services
The Samuel H. Kress Program in Paintings Conservation
2017 – 2018
Dianne Dwyer Modestini
Paintings Conservator
Shan Kuang
Kress Fellow in Paintings Conservation
Research Faculty in the Conservation Center
2017 – 2018
C. Richard Johnson
Visiting Research Professor 2017-18; Jacobs Fellow in Computational Arts and Humanities, Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute, Cornell Tech, NYC; Professor of Engineering, Cornell University
Dr. Marco Leona
Research Professor; David H. Koch Scientist in Charge, Department of Scientific Research, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Dianne Dwyer Modestini
Research Professor in Charge, Kress Program in Paintings Conservation
Judith Praska Distinguished Visiting Professor in Conservation and Technical Studies
Karl Buchberg (Fall 2017)
Former Senior Conservator of Paper, Museum of Modern Art
David Saunders (Spring 2018)
Honorary Research Fellow and Former Keeper of the Department of Conservation and Scientific Research, British Museum
Additional Conservation Consultants Villa La Pietra
2017 – 2018
Rachel Danzing
Proprietor, Rachel Danzing Art Conservation
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
2017 – 2018
Erin Anderson
Assistant Objects Conservator, Brooklyn Museum
Julie Arslanoglu
Associate Research Scientist, Department of Scientific Research, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Sarah Barack
Objects Conservator and Co-Proprietor, SBE Conservation
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
Silvia Centeno
Research Scientist, Department of Scientific Research, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Lucy Commoner
Head of Conservation Emerita, Cooper Hewitt Design Museum
Mary Coughlin
Assistant Professor of Museum Studies, Corcoran School of the Arts & Design, The George Washington University
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
Nina Engel
Associate Conservator, GV Art Conservation
Michael Gallagher
Sherman Fairchild Chairman of Paintings Conservation, Sherman Fairchild Paintings Conservation Center, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Leslie Ransick Gat
Objects Conservator and Proprietor, Art Conservation Group
Jakki Godfrey
Associate Objects Conservator, Brooklyn Museum
Sarah Guerin
Assistant Professor, Department of History of Art, University of Pennsylvania
Jodi Hauptman
Senior Curator of Drawings and Prints, Museum of Modern Art
Jennifer Hickey
Research Conservator, The Joan Mitchell Foundation
Stephen Koob
Conservator, The Corning Museum of Glass
Dawn Kriss
Project Objects Conservator, Brooklyn Museum
Dr. Cynthia Chavez Lamar
Assistant Director of Collections, National Museum of the American Indian
Caitlin Mahony
Assistant Objects Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Jennifer Mass
Andrew W. Mellon Professor, Bard Graduate Center
Kelly McHugh
Conservator, National Museum of the American Indian
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
Linda Nieuwenhuizen
Objects Conservator and Proprietor, Give Me A Break Conservation Services
Vicki Parry
Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Kristin Patterson
The Joan and John Thalheimer Associate Conservator of Paintings, The Philadelphia Museum of Art
Dwight Primiano
Photographer
Megan Randall
Sculpture Conservation Fellow, Museum of Modern Art
Meredith Reiss
Collections Manager, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Carolyn Riccardelli
Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Fran Ritchie
Project Conservator, American Museum of Natural History
Vikki Schussler
Project Objects Conservator, Brooklyn Museum
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
Harriet Stratis
Paper Conservator in Private Practice, Chicago
Julia Sybalsky
Associate Conservator of Natural Science Collections, The American Museum of Natural History
Melissa Tan
Objects Conservator, Chemistry Ph.D. student, New York University
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
George Wheeler
Research Scholar, Department of Scientific Research, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Senior Scientist, Highbridge Materials Consulting
Yuri Yanchyshyn
Principal and Senior Conservator, Period Furniture Conservation
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