Conservation Center Lecturers and Affiliated Faculty

Institute Lecturers for the Conservation Center
2019 – 2020

Samantha Alderson
Conservator, American Museum of Natural History

Julie Barten
Senior Conservator of Collections and Exhibitions, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

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

Nora Kennedy
Sherman Fairchild Conservator in Charge, 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

Laura McCann
Conservation Librarian, Barbara Goldsmith Preservation and Conservation Department, NYU Libraries

Michael Alan Miller
Associate Paintings Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Paintings Conservation Center, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Peter Oleksik
Associate Media Conservator, Museum of Modern Art

Fran Ritchie
Objects Conservator, National Park Service

Katherine Sanderson
Assistant Conservator, Photograph Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Kerith Koss Schrager
Objects Conservator and Proprietor, The Found Object

Harriet Stratis
Former Senior Research Conservator, Paper Conservation Department, The Art Institute of Chicago

Lena Stringari
Deputy Director and Chief Conservator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Julia Sybalsky
Associate Conservator of Natural Science Collections, The American Museum of Natural History

Steven Weintraub
Proprietor, Art Preservation Services

The Samuel H. Kress Program in Paintings Conservation
2019 – 2020

Dianne Dwyer Modestini
Conservator for the Kress Collection

Shan Kuang
Kress Fellow in Paintings Conservation

Research Faculty in the Conservation Center
2019 – 2020

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

Yvonne Shashoua (Fall 2019)
Senior Researcher, National Museum of Denmark

Lucy Commoner (Spring 2020)
Head of Conservation Emerita, Cooper Hewitt Design Museum

Additional Conservation Consultants Villa La Pietra
2019 – 2020

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; Conservation Consultant, Villa La Pietra

Guest Lecturers to the Conservation Center
2019 – 2020

Erin Anderson
Assistant Objects Conservator, Brooklyn Museum

Sarah Barack
Head of Conservation, Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum

Rachel Barker
Conservation Consultant, Rachell Barker Associates

Reinhard Bek
Conservator of Contemporary Art, Modern Materials, and Media, Bek & Frohnert, LLC

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

Lorenso Castellano
PhD candidate, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU

Luisa Casella
Photograph Conservator in Private Practice

Silvia Centeno
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

Mary Coughlin
Assistant Professor of Museum Studies, Corcoran School of the Arts & Design, The George Washington University

Julia Day
Conservator, The Frick Collection

Margo Delidow
Objects Conservator and Co-Proprietor, Whryta Contemporary Art Conservation

Joyce Denney
Museum textile specialist

Jean Dommermuth
Senior Paintings Conservator, ArtCare NYC; Conservation Consultant, Villa La Pietra

Beth Edelstein
Conservator, Cleveland Museum of Art

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

Jonathan Farbowitz
Fellow in the Conservation of Coputer-Based Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Ben Fido-Radin
Media Conservator and Founder, Small Data Industries

Scott Fitzgerald
Industry Assistant Professor, Department of Technology, Culture and Society, New York University

Emily Frank
PhD candidate, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU

Michael Gallagher
Sherman Fairchild Chairman of Paintings Conservation, Sherman Fairchild Paintings Conservation Center, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Melissa Gardner
Associate Paintings Conservator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Ethan Gates
Software Preservation Analyst, Yale University

Aaron Glass
Associate Professor, The Bard Graduate Center

Rebecca Gridley
Conservator, Art Conservation Group LLC

Mark Hellar
Technology Consultant, Hellar Studios, LLC

Dr. Maggie Holtzberg
Folklorist, Massachusetts Council on the Arts

Daria Keynan
Paper Conservator and Proprietor, Daria Keynan Paper Conservation

Nora Khan
Writer

Dawn Kriss
Project Objects Conservator, Brooklyn Museum

Jacklyn Lacey
African and Pacific Ethnology Curatorial Associate, American Museum of Natural History

Ashira Loike
Assistant Manager for Conservation Documentation, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Julie Martin
Director, Experiments in Art and Technology

Nicole Martin
Associate Director of Archives and Digital Systems, Human Rights Watch

Jennifer Mass
Andrew W. Mellon Professor, Bard Graduate Center; President, Scientific Analysis of Fine Art, LLC

Chris McGlinchey
Sally and Michael Gordon Senior Conservation Scientist, The Museum of Modern Art

Manfred Mohr
Digital artist

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

Dr. Jilleen Nadolny
Principal Investigator, Art Analysis & Research, London

Linda Niuewenuizen
Objects Conservator, Give Me A Break Conservation Services, Inc.

Peter Oleksik
Associate Media Conservator, Museum of Modern Art

Nathan Otterson
Senior Conservator, Objects, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Trevor Owens
Head of Digital Content Management at the Library of Congress; Public Historian in Residence at American University; and Lecturer at the University of Maryland’s College of Information

Jessica Pace
Preventive Conservator, Barbara Goldsmith Preservation and Conservation Department, NYU Libraries

Kristin Patterson
Paintings Conservator

Dwight Primiano
Photographer

Megan Randall
Sculpture Conservator, Museum of Modern Art

Sarah Reidell
Margy E. Meyerson Head of Conservation, University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Carolyn Riccardelli
Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Clara Rojas-Sebesta
Assistant Paper Conservator, Whitney Museum of American Art

Anna Serotta
Associate Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Reba Fishman Snyder
Paper Conservator, The Morgan Library & Museum

Karen Stamm
Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Paula de Stefano
Head, Barbara Goldsmith Preservation and Conservation Department, NYU Libraries

Weatherly A. Stephan
Head, Archival Collections Management, Barbara Goldsmith Preservation and Conservation Department, NYU Libraries

Donna Strahan
Head of Conservation and Scientific Research, Freer & Sackler Galleries

Gloria Sutton
Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History, Northeastern University

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

Erin Toomey
Conservator, Art Conservation Group

Frank Trujillo
Drue Heinz Book Conservator, The Morgan Library & Museum

Serena Urry
Chief Conservator, Cincinnati Museum of Art

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

Jessica Walthew
Objects Conservator, Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum

Jonah Westerman
Assistant Professor of Art History, Purchase College State University of New York

George Wheeler
Research Scholar, Department of Scientific Research, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Senior Scientist, Highbridge Materials Consulting

Scott Williams, Ph.D.
Professor, Inorganic Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Rochester Institute of Technology