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.