Conservation
Archaeology
Conservation Center Lecturers and Affiliated Faculty
Institute Lecturers for the Conservation Center
2018 – 2019
Sarah Barack
Head of Conservation, Cooper Hewitt Design Museum
Joan Breton Connelly
Professor of Classics, New York University; Director, Yeronisos Island Excavations (Cyprus)
Rachel Danzing
Proprietor, Rachel Danzing Art Conservation; Conservation Consultant, Villa La Pietra
Jean Dommermuth
Senior Paintings Conservator, ArtCare NYC; Conservation Consultant, Villa La Pietra
Maria Fredericks
Sherman Fairchild Head of Conservation, 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
Leslie Ransick Gat
Objects Conservator and Proprietor, Art Conservation Group
Alexis Hagadorn
Head of Conservation, Columbia University Libraries, Columbia University
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
Kristin Patterson
The Joan and John Thalheimer Associate Conservator of Paintings, The Philadelphia Museum of Art
Carolyn Riccardelli
Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Kerith Koss Schrager
Objects Conservator and Proprietor, The Found Object
Marjorie Shelley
Sherman Fairchild Conservator in Charge, Sherman Fairchild Center for Works of Art on Paper Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Jessica Walthew
Objects Conservator, Cooper Hewitt Design Museum
Steven Weintraub
Proprietor, Art Preservation Services
George Wheeler
Research Scholar, Department of Scientific Research, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Senior Scientist, Highbridge Materials Consulting; Conservation Consultant, Villa La Pietra
The Samuel H. Kress Program in Paintings Conservation
2018 – 2019
Dianne Dwyer Modestini
Paintings Conservator
Shan Kuang
Kress Fellow in Paintings Conservation
Research Faculty in the Conservation Center
2018 – 2019
C. Richard Johnson
Visiting Research Professor 2018-19; 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
Harriet Stratis (Fall 2018)
Former Senior Research Conservator, Paper Conservation Department, The Art Institute of Chicago
Jim Coddington (Spring 2019)
Former Agnes Gund Chief Conservator, Museum of Modern Art
Additional Conservation Consultants Villa La Pietra
2018 – 2019
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
Guest Lecturers to the Conservation Center
2018 – 2019
Samantha Alderson
Conservator, American Museum of Natural History
Erin Anderson
Assistant Objects Conservator, Brooklyn Museum
Dr. Bart Ankersmit
Researcher, Conservation & Restoration, Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands
Nancy Ash
Head of Paper Conservation, The Philadelphia Museum of Art
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
Conservator of Contemporary Art, Modern Materials, and Media, Bek & Frohnert, LLC
Richard Bloes
Head of A/V, Whitney Museum of American Art
Tega Brain
Assistant Industry Professor of Integrated Digital Media, Tandon School of Engineering, NYU
Eric Breitung
Research Scientist, Department of Scientific Research, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Amy Brost
Assistant Media Conservator, Museum of Modern Art
Rebecca Capua
Associate Paper Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Works of Art on Paper Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Federico Caró
Associate Research Scientist, Department of Scientific Research, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Dr. Francesca Casadio
Grainger Executive Director of Conservation and Science, Art Institute of Chicago
Lucy Commoner
Head of Conservation Emerita, Cooper Hewitt Design Museum
Lisa Conte
Head of Conservation Services, National September 11 Memorial & Museum
Mary Coughlin
Assistant Professor of Museum Studies, Corcoran School of the Arts & Design, The George Washington University
Patrick Cunningham
Lead Consulting Engineer, ANSYS, Middlebury, CT
Kristi Dahm
Associate Paper Conservator, The Art Institute of Chicago
Julia Day
Conservator, The Frick Collection
Margo Delidow
Objects Conservator and Co-Proprietor, Whryta Contemporary Art Conservation
Joyce Denney
Assistant Curator, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Toni Dove
Electronic and interactive media artist
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
Ben Fido-Radin
Media Conservator and Founder, Small Data Industries
Scott Fitzgerald
Industry Assistant Professor, Department of Technology, Culture and Society, New York University
Michael Gallagher
Sherman Fairchild Chairman of Paintings Conservation, Sherman Fairchild Paintings Conservation Center, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gabriel Garcia-Colombo
Mixed media artist; Teacher, Interactive Telecommunications Program, New York University
Martina Haidvogl
Associate Media Conservator, SFMOMA
Amy Hughes
Andrew W. Mellon and the Charles E. Culpeper Fellow in Paper Conservation, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Pepe Karmel
Associate Professor of Art History, Department of Art History, New York University
Nora Kennedy
Sherman Fairchild Conservator in Charge, Photograph Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Daria Keynan
Paper Conservator and Proprietor, Daria Keynan Paper Conservation
John Klacsman
Archivist, Anthology Film Archives
Stephen Koob
Conservator, The Corning Museum of Glass
Dawn Kriss
Project Objects Conservator, Brooklyn Museum
Chi-Tien Lui
CTL Electronics, Inc.
Dorothy Mahon
Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Paintings Conservation Center, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Carol Mancusi-Ungaro
Melva Bucksbaum Associate Director for Conservation and Research, Whitney Museum of American Art
Julie Martin
Director, Experiments in Art and Technology
Nicole Martin
Senior Multimedia Archivist and Digital Systems Manager, Human Rights Watch
Jennifer Mass
Andrew W. Mellon Professor, Bard Graduate Center; President, Scientific Analysis of Fine Art, LLC
Marina Ruiz Molina
Associate Paper Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Works of Art on Paper Conservation, 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
Peter Oleksik
Associate Media Conservator, Museum of Modern Art
Jessica Pace
Preventive Conservator, Barbara Goldsmith Preservation and Conservation Department, NYU Libraries
Vicki Parry
Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Christiane Paul
Adjunct Curator of Digital Art, Whitney Museum of American Art
Rebecca Pollack
Paper Conservator
Dwight Primiano
Photographer
Megan Randall
Sculpture Conservator, Museum of Modern Art
Carolyn Riccardelli
Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Jess Rigelhaupt
Oral Historian
David Rios
Teacher and artist, Interactive Telecommunications Program, New York University
Clara Rojas-Sebesta
Assistant Paper Conservator, Whitney Museum of American Art
Anna Serotta
Assistant Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Raphaele Shirley
CTL Electronics, Inc.
Reba Fishman Snyder
Paper Conservator, The Morgan Library & Museum
Karen Stamm
Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Jill Sterrett
Deputy Director for Museum Affairs and Strategic Impact, The Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago
Donna Strahan
Head of Conservation and Scientific Research, Freer & Sackler Galleries
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
Satoko Tanimoto
Conservation Scientist
Norman Tennent
Visiting Conservation Scientist, University of Texas at Dallas; Emeritus Professor, Conservation Science, University of Amsterdam
Carolyn Tomkiewicz
Paintings Conservator
Erin Toomey
Conservator, Art Conservation Group
Yana van Dyke
Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Works on Paper and Photograph Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Farris Wahbeh
Director of Research Resources, Whitney Museum of American Art
Jeffrey Weiss
Senior Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
George Wheeler
Research Scholar, Department of Scientific Research, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Senior Scientist, Highbridge Materials Consulting
Amy Whitaker
Assistant Professor, Art and Art Professions, New York University
Scott Williams
Professor, Inorganic Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Rochester Institute of Technology
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