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