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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
This list will be updated periodically throughout the academic year.
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