Conservation
Archaeology
Conservation Center Lecturers and Affiliated Faculty
Institute Lecturers for the Conservation Center
2022 – 2023
Reinhard Bek
Conservator of Contemporary Art, Modern Materials, and Media, Bek & Frohnert, LLC
Shauna Young Breatore
Senior Paintings Conservator, Modern Art Conservation
Lisa Bruno
Carol Lee Shen Chief Conservator, Brooklyn Museum
Diana Díaz-Cañas
Assistant Photograph Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Conservator of Photographs, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Lee Ann Daffner
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Conservator of Photographs, Museum of Modern Art
Jean Dommermuth
Studio Director, 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
Research Professor and Time-Based Media Program Coordinator; Proprietor, Bek + Frohnert, LLC
Leslie Ransick Gat
Objects Conservator and Proprietor, Art Conservation Group
Jakki Godfrey
Objects Conservator, Proprietor, Boro 6 Art Conservation
Dr. Matthew Hayes
Kress Post-Doctoral Associate in Paintings Conservation
Laura McCann
Director, Barbara Goldsmith Preservation and Conservation Department, New York University Libraries
Dianne Dwyer Modestini
Clinical Professor Emerita, Conservator of the Kress Program in Painting Conservation, The Conservation Center
Kristin Patterson
Paintings Conservator, NYC
Jennifer Perry
Mary and James Wallach Conservator of Japanese Art, Asian Art Department, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Katherine Sanderson
Associate Photograph Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Conservator of Photographs, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Kerith Koss Schrager
Head of Conservation, National September 11 Memorial & Museum
Suzanne Siano
Paintings Conservator and Proprietor, Modern Art Conservation
Steven Weintraub
Conservator, Proprietor, Art Preservation Services
Masanobu Yamazaki
Conservator, Asian Art Department, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Samuel H. Kress Program in Paintings Conservation
2022 – 2023
Dianne Dwyer Modestini
Clinical Professor, Kress Program in Painting Conservation
Dr. Matthew Hayes
Kress Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Paintings Conservation
Molly Hughes-Hallett
Samuel H. Kress Fellow in Paintings Conservation
Research Faculty in the Conservation Center
2022 – 2023
Senior Research Scholars
Christine Frohnert
Director, Time-Based Media Program, The Conservation Center; Proprietor, Bek + Frohnert, LLC
C. Richard Johnson, Jr.
Visiting Research Professor; Geoffrey S. M. Hedrick Senior Professor Emeritus of Engineering, Cornell University
Dr. Marco Leona
Research Professor; David H. Koch Scientist in Charge, Department of Scientific Research, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Christopher McGlinchey
Project Director, Getty Conserving Canvas Lining Adhesive Research Project; Fine Art Conservation Science Consultant
Dianne Dwyer Modestini
Clinical Professor Emerita, Kress Program in Painting Conservation
Research Fellows
Dr. Matthew Hayes
Kress Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Paintings Conservation
Emma Kimmel
Getty Conserving Canvas Lining Adhesive Research Fellow (January 2022 – August 2022)
Judith Praska Distinguished Visiting Professor in Conservation and Technical Studies
Dr. Bertrand Lavédrine (Fall 2022)
Professor, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Sorbonne University Alliance; Scientist, Centre de Recherche sur la Conservation, Paris, France
Judith Praska Distinguished Visiting Assistant Professor in Conservation and Technical Studies
Rebecca Gridley (Spring 2023)
Conservator, Art Conservation Group
Additional Conservation Consultants Villa La Pietra
2022 – 2023
Rachel Danzing
Paper Conservator, Proprietor, Rachel Danzing Art Conservation
Maria Fredericks
Sherman Fairchild Head of Conservation, Thaw Conservation Center, The Morgan Library & Museum
Pam Hatchfield
Robert P. and Carol T. Henderson Head of Objects Conservation Emerita, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Project Coordinator, Held in Trust
Michele Marincola
Chair and Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor of Conservation, The Conservation Center, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
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
2022 – 2023
Samantha Alderson
Assistant Director, Science Conservation, American Museum of Natural History
Rachael Perkins Arenstein
A.M. Art Conservation, LLC
Sarah Barack
Head of Conservation, Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum
Jonathan S. Bell, Ph.D.
Vice President of Programs, World Monuments Fund
Brian Block
Project Researcher, Media Preservation Initiative, Whitney Museum of American Art
Susan Brown
Acting Head of Textiles, Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum
Richard G. Bruno
Director of Fire Life Safety and Security Operations, National September 11 Memorial & Museum
Angela Campbell
Conservator, National Parks Service
Savannah Campbell
Project Media Preservation Specialist - Video and Digital Media, Media Preservation Initiative, Whitney Museum of American Art
Federico Caró
Research Scientist, Department of Scientific Research, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Ellen Carrlee
Conservator, Alaska State Museum
Ian Cartwright
Archaeological Photographer, School of Archaeology, University of Oxford
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
Silvia Centeno
Research Scientist, Department of Scientific Research, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Yve Laris Cohen
Artist
Malcolm Collum
Head Conservator, Smithsonian/National Air and Space Museum
Lucy Commoner
Conservator Emerita, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian 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 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Margo Delidow
Assistant Conservator, Whitney Museum of American Art
Lou Di Gennaro
Senior Conservator, Special Collections, Barbara Goldsmith Preservation and Conservation Department, Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, NYU
Ameya Grant
Assistant Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Margaret Holben Ellis
Eugene Thaw Professor of Paper Conservation Emerita
Deena Engel
Clinical Professor Emerita, Department of Computer Science, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
Daniel Etzion
Senior Conservation Assistant, Art Conservation Group
Briana Feston-Brunet
Conservator of Variable and Time-Based Media, Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden
Caroline Gil
Director of Preservation and Media Collections, Electronic Arts Intermix
Alexis Hagadorn
Head of Conservation, Columbia University Libraries, Columbia University
Taylor Healy
Assistant Conservator of Media, Art Institute of Chicago
Grace Jan
Yao Wenqing Chinese Painting Conservator, National Museum of Asian Art
Agathe Jarzcyk
Conservator, Time Based Media, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Adam Jenkins
Conservator of Sculpture and Decorative Arts, Adam Jenkins Conservation Services, LLC
Pamela Johnson
Associate Conservator, Modern Art Conservation
Elena Kanagy-Loux
Fashion and Textile Designer
Nora Kennedy
Sherman Fairchild Conservator in Charge, Sherman Fairchild Conservator of Photographs, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Jennifer Kim
Conservator, Autry Museum of the American West
Jon Klacksman
Archivist, Anthology Film Archives
Dawn Kriss
Associate Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Abigail Mack
Sculpture Conservator, Co-Owner, Monumenta
Dawn Mankowski
Conservator, Special Collections, Barbara Goldsmith Preservation and Conservation Department, Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, NYU
Hélia Marçal
Lecturer in History of Art, Materials and Technology, University College London
Julie Martin
Director, Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.)
S𝙶̲aan Kwahagang James D. McGuire
Collections Coordinator, Haida Gwaii Museum
Manfred Mohr
Artist
Denyse Montegut
Adjunct Professor, Fashion and Textiles Studies Department, School of Graduate Studies, Fashion Institute of Technology
Michael Morris
Objects and Architecture Conservator
Catherine Myers
Historic Preservation, Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania
David Neary
Project Manager, Media Preservation Initiative, Whitney Museum of American Art
Adam Neese
Senior Collections Photographer for Conservation, Museum of Modern Art
Mei Mei Rado
Assistant Professor, Bard Graduate Center
Ellen Rand
Conservation Specialist, Co-Owner, Monumenta
Will Raynolds
Program Director, Heritage Conservation, The J.M. Kaplan Fund
Carolyn Riccardelli
Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Bethany Romanowski
Head Registrar, National September 11 Memorial & Museum
Katherine Sanderson
Associate Conservator, Department of Photograph Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Jochen Saueracker
Shigeko Kubota Video Art Foundation
Victoria Schussler
Assistant 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
Christian Serre
Institut des Matériaux Poreux de Paris
Matthew Skopek
Cy Twombly Conservator of Paintings, Whitney Museum of American Art
Karen Stamm
Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Weatherly Stephan
Head, Archival Collections Management, Knowledge Access & Resource Management Services, Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, NYU
Donna Strahan
Head of Conservation and Scientific Research, The National Museum of Asian Art
Jeffrey Sturges
Artist
Gloria Sutton
Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History, College of Arts, Media and Design, Northeastern University
Julia Sybalsky
Conservator, Science Conservation, The American Museum of Natural History
Ahmed Tarek
Conservation Specialist of Organic Materials and Head of the Human Remains Laboratory, Grand Egyptian Museum Conservation Center
Carolyn Tomkiewicz
Paintings Conservator
Erin Toomey
Conservator, Art Conservation Group
Kate Tyler
Conservator, Brooklyn Museum
Lindsey Tyne
Conservation Librarian, Barbara Goldsmith Preservation and Conservation Department, Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, NYU
Yana van Dyke
Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Works on Paper and Photograph Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Ar
Andrew Wolf
Assistant Conservator, National September 11 Memorial & Museum
This list will be updated periodically throughout the academic year.
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