Conservation Center Lecturers and Affiliated Faculty

Institute Lecturers for the Conservation Center
2020 – 2021

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

Lisa Bruno
Carol Lee Shen Chief Conservator, Brooklyn Museum

Brian Castriota
Freelance Conservator, Time-Based Media & Contemporary Art, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh; Freelance Conservator, Time-Based Media & Contemporary Art, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

Emily Frank
Objects Conservator, PhD Candidate, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU

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

Jakki Godfrey
Objects Conservator, Proprietor, Boro 6 Art Conservation

Dr. Abed Haddad
The David Booth Fellow in Conservation Science, The David Booth Conservation Department, Museum of Modern Art

Alexis Hagadorn
Head of Conservation, Columbia University Libraries, Columbia University

Matthew Hayes
Paintings Conservator, Proprietor, The Pietro Edwards Society for Art Conservation

Nora Kennedy
Sherman Fairchild Conservator in Charge, Sherman Fairchild Conservator of Photographs, 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, New York University Libraries

Chris McGlinchey
Conservation Scientist, NYC

Dianne Dwyer Modestini
Clinical Professor, Kress Program in Painting Conservation

Kristin Patterson,
Paintings Conservator, NYC

Katherine Sanderson
Assistant Photograph Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Conservator of Photographs, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

David Saunders
Research Fellow, The National Gallery, London

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

Kerith Koss Schrager
Objects Conservator, Proprietor, The Found Object

Chantal Stein
Objects Conservator, 2020-21 FAIC/Kress Fellow in Plastics Conservation, Barbara Goldsmith Preservation and Conservation Department, New York University Libraries

Steven Weintraub
Conservator, Proprietor, Art Preservation Services

The Samuel H. Kress Program in Paintings Conservation
2020 – 2021

Dianne Dwyer Modestini
Clinical Professor, Kress Program in Painting Conservation

Shan Kuang
Samuel H. Kress Assistant Conservator and Assistant Research Scholar

Laura Turco
Samuel H. Kress Fellow in Paintings Conservation

Research Faculty in the Conservation Center
2020 – 2021

Dr. Marco Leona
Research Professor; David H. Koch Scientist in Charge, Department of Scientific Research, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Dianne Dwyer Modestini
Clinical Professor, Kress Program in Painting Conservation

Judith Praska Distinguished Visiting Professor in Conservation and Technical Studies

Lynda Zycherman (Spring 2021)
Sculpture Conservator, Museum of Modern Art

Additional Conservation Consultants Villa La Pietra
2020 – 2021

Rachel Danzing
Paper Conservator, 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; Conservation Consultant, Villa La Pietra

Guest Lecturers to the Conservation Center
2020 – 2021

Erin Anderson
Assistant Objects Conservator, Brooklyn Museum

Sanchita Balachandran
Associate Director/Conservator, Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum; Lecturer, Johns Hopkins University

Sarah Barack
Head of Conservation, Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum

Joy Bloser
Assistant Conservator for Public Outreach, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Linsly Boyer
Associate Conservator for Conservation in Action, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Ellen Carrlee
Objects Conservator, Alaska State Museum

Federico Caró
Associate Research Scientist, Department of Scientific Research, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Luisa Casella
Photograph Conservator in Private Practice

Silvia Centeno
Research Scientist, Department of Scientific Research, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Raina Chao
Associate Objects Conservator, Saint Louis Art Museum

Matthieu Cheminée
Metal artist

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

Kristi Dahm
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

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

Alisa Eagleston-Cieslewicz
Conservator, SFO Museum

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
Associate Conservator for Time-Based Media, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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

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

Rebecca Gridley
Conservator, Art Conservation Group LLC

Saira Haqqi
Book and Paper Conservator, Minnesota Historical Society

Agathe Jarzcyk
Conservator, Time Based Media, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Adam Jenkins
Principal, Adam Jenkins Conservation Services, LLC

John Klacsman
Archivist, Anthology Film Archives

Dawn Kriss
Project Objects Conservator, Brooklyn Museum

Louise Lawson
Conservation Manager, Time Based Media Conservation, Tate Modern

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

Rosa Lowinger
President and Chief Conservator, RLA Conservation of Art + Architecture, Inc.

Hélia Marçal
Lecturer in History of Art, Materials and Technology, University College London

Julie Martin
Director, Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.)

Eve Mayberger
Assistant Conservator for Conservation in Action, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Jen Mergel
Independent Curator

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

Tamanda Msosa
Creative Technologist

Emily Mulvihill
Project Associate Painting Conservator, The Museum of Modern Art

Hanako Murata
Conservator, The Better Image

Catherine Myers
Lecturer, The Graduate Program in Historic Preservation, University of Pennsylvania

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

Peter Oleksik
Associate Media Conservator, Museum of Modern Art

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

Dwight Primiano
Photographer

Megan Randall
Sculpture Conservator, Museum of Modern Art

Sam Redman
Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

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

J. Corey Smith Riley
Objects Conservator, North Caroline Museum of Art

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

Cynthia Connelly Ryan
Conservation Scientist, Library of Congress

Jochen Saueracker
Shigeko Kubota Video Art Foundation

Debbie Schorsch
Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Victoria Schussler
Project Objects Conservator, Brooklyn Museum

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

Chris Stavroudis
Paintings Conservator

Dr. Joyce Hill Stoner
Edward F. and Elizabeth Goodman Rosenberg Professor of Material Culture; Director, Preservation Studies Doctoral Program, University of Delaware; Paintings Conservator, Winterthur/UD Program in Art Conservation

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

Gloria Sutton
Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History, College of Arts, Media and Design, Northeastern University

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

Tamiko Thiel
Artist

Erin Toomey
Conservator, Art Conservation Group

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

Astrid van Giffen
Assistant Conservator, Corning Museum of Glass

Jessica Walthew
Objects Conservator, Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum

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

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

Yuri Yanchyshyn
Principal and Senior Conservator, Period Furniture Conservation, LLC

Marlene Yandrisevits
Assistant Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art