Conservation
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Conservation Center Lecturers and Affiliated Faculty
Institute Lecturers for the Conservation Center
2021 – 2022
Samantha Alderson
Conservator, American Museum of Natural History
Dr. Norbert S. Baer
Hagop Kevorkian Professor Emeritus of Conservation
Dr. 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
Jean Dommermuth
Studio Director, ArtCare, NYC; Conservation Consultant, Villa La Pietra
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
Research Professor and Time-Based Media Program Coordinator; Proprietor, Bek + Frohnert, LLC
Leslie Ransick Gat
Objects Conservator and Proprietor, Art Conservation Group
Alexis Hagadorn
Head of Conservation, Columbia University Libraries, Columbia University
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
Kate Lewis
Agnes Gund Chief Conservator, Museum of Modern Art
Chris McGlinchey
Fine Art Conservation Science Consultant
Dianne Dwyer Modestini
Clinical Professor Emerita, Kress Program in Painting Conservation, Conservation Center
Peter Oleksik
Associate Media Conservator, Museum of Modern Art
Jessica Pace
Preventive Conservator, NYU Libraries
Kerith Koss Schrager
Objects Conservator, Proprietor, The Found Object
The Samuel H. Kress Program in Paintings Conservation
2021 – 2022
Dianne Dwyer Modestini
Clinical Professor, Kress Program in Painting Conservation
Shan Kuang
Samuel H. Kress Associate Conservator and Associate Research Scholar
Laura Turco
Samuel H. Kress Fellow in Paintings Conservation (January – August 2021)
Molly Hughes-Hallett
Samuel H. Kress Fellow in Paintings Conservation (August 2021 – May 2022)
Research Faculty in the Conservation Center
2021 – 2022
Senior Research Scholars
Christine Frohnert
Research Professor and Time-Based Media Program Coordinator; Proprietor, Bek + Frohnert, LLC
C. Richard Johnson, Jr.
Visiting Research Professor, 2018-22; Geoffrey S. M. Hedrick Senior 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
Clinical Professor, Kress Program in Painting Conservation
Associate Research Scholars
Shan Kuang
Samuel H. Kress Associate Conservator and Associate Research Scholar
Research Fellows
Emma Kimmel
Getty Conserving Canvas Lining Adhesive Research Fellow
Judith Praska Distinguished Visiting Professor in Conservation and Technical Studies
Steven Weintraub (Fall 2021)
Conservator, Proprietor, Art Preservation Services
Denyse Montegut (Spring 2022)
Associate Chair and Professor, Fashion and Textiles Studies Department, School of Graduate Studies,
Fashion Institute of Technology
Additional Conservation Consultants Villa La Pietra
2021 – 2022
Rachel Danzing
Paper Conservator, Proprietor, Rachel Danzing Art Conservation
Pam Hatchfield
Robert P. and Carol T. Henderson Head of Objects Conservation Emerita, 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
Senior Scientist, Highbridge Materials Consulting
Guest Lecturers to the Conservation Center
2021 – 2022
This list will be updated periodically throughout the academic year.
Laura Allen
Curator of Native North American Art, Montclair Art Museum
Sarah Barack
Head of Conservation, Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum
Elena Basso
Associate Research Scientist, Department of Scientific Research, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Amy Brost
Assistant Media Conservator, Museum of Modern Art
Federico Caró
Research Scientist, Department of Scientific Research, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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
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
Gabrielle Crowther
Conservator, Art Conservation Group LLC
Julia Day
Conservator, The Frick Collection
Margo Delidow
Objects Conservator and Co-Proprietor, Whryta Contemporary Art Conservation
Jean Dommermuth
Studio Director, ArtCare NYC; Conservation Consultant, Villa La Pietra
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
Daniel Etzion
Senior Conservation Assistant, Art Conservation Group
Jonathan Farbowitz
Associate Conservator for Time-Based Media, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Dr. Aaron Glass
Associate Professor, The Bard Graduate Center
Dr. Rebecca Gordon
Associate Lecturer, History of Art, University College London
Rebecca Gridley
Conservator, Art Conservation Group LLC
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
Taylor Healy
Smithsonian Post-Graduate Fellow in Conservation of Museum Collections, Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden and the Smithsonian American Art MMuseum
Paul Himmelstein
Conservator & Proprietor, Appelbaum & Himmelstein LLC
Agathe Jarzcyk
Conservator, Time Based Media, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Jack Johnson
Mohawk and Akwesasne scholar and elder, New York
Lucretia Kargère
Conservator, The Cloisters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Nora Kennedy
Sherman Fairchild Conservator in Charge, Sherman Fairchild Conservator of Photographs, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Jon Klacksman
Archivist, Anthology Film Archives
Lia Kramer
Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Media Conservation, Museum of Modern Art
Ashira Loike
Assistant Manager for Conservation Documentation, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Hélia Marçal
Lecturer in History of Art, Materials and Technology, University College London
Julie Martin
Director, Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.)
Zoë Miller
Artist
Denyse Montegut
Associate Chair and Professor, Fashion and Textiles Studies Department, School of Graduate Studies, Fashion Institute of Technology
Emily Mulvihill
MAMA Registrar, Murray Art Museum Albury, New South Wales, Australia
Catherine Myers
Lecturer/Conservator, Historic Preservation Program, University of Pennsylvania
David Neary
Project Manager, Media Preservation Initiative, Whitney Museum of American Art
Adam Neese
Independent Conservation Imaging Specialist
Adam Novak
Paper Conservator
Jessica Pace
Preventive Conservator, Barbara Goldsmith Preservation and Conservation Department, NYU Libraries
Erica Papernik
Associate Curator, Department of Media and Performance, Museum of Modern Art
Megan Randall
Objects Conservator, Midwest Art Conservation Center
Carolyn Riccardelli
Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Cynthia Connelly Ryan
Conservation Scientist, Library of Congress
Katherine Sanderson
Associate Photograph Conservator, Department of Photograph Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Sandra Sardjono
Tracing Patterns Foundation, Berkeley, CA
Jochen Saueracker
Shigeko Kubota Video Art Foundation
Victoria Schussler
Project Objects Conservator, Brooklyn Museum
Clara Rojas Sebesta
Ellsworth Kelly Conservator of Works of Art on Paper, Whitney Museum of American Art
Anna Serotta
Associate Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Sherrie Smith-Ferri
Dry Creek Pomo scholar and elder, Curator of Education & Exhibits, Grace Hudson Museum
Georgia Southworth
Associate Book Conservator, Department of Photograph Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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
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
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
Jessica Walthew
Objects Conservator, Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum
Andrew Wolf
David Booth Fellow in Conservation, Museum of Modern Art
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