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8:00am • (Opening) Welcome and Opening Remarks
8:30am • (Opening) In Commitment to Community: BACC’s Journey into Radical Inclusion
8:47am • (Opening) Considering Elements of Effective Collaboration at the National Museum of the American Indian
9:04am • (Opening) Powerful Places: cultivating cultural resilience in Minnesota’s sacred ecological sites
9:21am • (Opening) Curiosa Naturalia: bringing a natural history collection back to life
9:38am • (Opening) Threads of Time: Discovering a 19th-Century Faroese Knitted Sweater
9:55am • (Opening) “It feels like Chief Dúqvay̓ḷa, Captain Carpenter, has come home”– Collaborative storytelling of his Chief’s Seat repatriation to the Carpenter Family in the Haíłzaqv Nation after 113 years
10:15am • Morning Exhibit Hall Break
10:55am • (Opening) – How to Tell your Story: Perspectives from Funding Agencies
12:00pm • (Luncheon) Forging Connections: Working Together to Build and Sustain Small-Team Preservation Programs in Libraries and Archives - Cost $35
12:00pm • (Luncheon) Our Stories: Communicating Conservation when Presenting to a General Audience - Cost $35
12:00pm • (Luncheon) Foundations of Spectral Imaging of Cultural Heritage Objects (Multiband, Multispectral and Hyperspectral Imaging) - Cost $35
2:00pm • (Objects) New African Masquerades: Flexible mounts for a collaborative exhibition
2:00pm • (Architecture) Solution from Nature: Psyllium Husk as a Biological Amendment for Soil-based Shelter Coat Protection of Earthen Heritage
2:00pm • (Photographic Materials) Application of High-Resolution Multispectral Imaging Systems for the Very-Long-Term Monitoring of Degradation Over Time of Photographs, Paintings, Fabrics, Documents, Books, and Other Cultural Heritage Materials
2:00pm • (Book and Paper) A Decade in America: A 10 year race to prepare the 1960s Census Enumeration District Maps for digitization
2:00pm • (Preventive Care) Meeting in the Middle: Best Practices and Practical Actions Unite in Community Collaboration
2:00pm • (Paintings) Case studies in Collaboration: 17th century painting workshops to 21st century conservation studios
2:00pm • (Contemporary Art) Direct Approaches to Complex Situations: Collaborating to Display Contemporary Textiles at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
2:00pm • (Textiles) Facing the Unknown Together: Conservation of Mexican Costume Collection by Pedro Loredo
2:00pm • (Electronic Media) I’m Gonna Be (5000 Carriers): Success Rates and Predictors in Digital Media Preservation
2:00pm • (Research & Technical Studies) A multi-disciplinary solution for the problem of lead corrosion in organ pipes
2:30pm • (Architecture) Heat, Humidity, and Pressure: Leveraging Techniques from Other Disciplines to Preserve Graffiti and Architectural Paints at a Historic Prison Museum
2:30pm • (Preventive Care) Van Gogh in motion: Safeguarding lined and unlined Van Gogh paintings from vibration and mechanical shock during transport
2:30pm • (Electronic Media) Machine Learning in Art: Tools, Techniques, and Implications for Conservation
2:30pm • (Book and Paper) Archivists and Conservators: An Unlikely Love Story
2:30pm • (Paintings) “It’s the small pieces that make the big picture”: The structural treatment of An Allegory of the Tudor Succession
2:30pm • (Photographic Materials) “Lights on Vivex prints!” Raman identification and microfade testing of coloring materials
2:30pm • (Research & Technical Studies) Testing for lead on sculpture: defining useful thresholds in a liability- and safety-minded America
2:30pm • (Textiles) If you Give a Mouse a Cookie: The use of Solvent Gels, Painted Overlays, and a Heating Pad in the Treatment of a Crazy Quilt
2:30pm • (Contemporary Art)Mud Musings: Changing Systems and Ideas in Robert Rauschenberg’s Sound-Activated Artworks
2:30pm • (Objects) A Sterling Conservation Project: Preparing 1200 Pieces of Gorham Silver for Exhibition and Travel
3:00pm • (Preventive Care) A Multi-Strategy Approach to Preventive Conservation for historic wooden objects
3:00pm • (Research & Technical Studies) Museums and Zoos: A case study of an unusual collaboration for heritage science research and public outreach
3:00pm • (Paintings) Corneille de Lyon heart: technical studies of a late Renaissance portraitist and his workshop in France
3:00pm • (Textiles) It Takes a Village: Collaborations as a Critical Element in the Development of Pesticide Safety Programs
3:00pm • (Contemporary Art) Building collaborative networks of care for the conservation of Chryssa’s neon works
3:00pm • (Electronic Media) Video Archives for Media Archaelogy: Steina Vasulka and Live A/V Processing in the 90s
3:00pm • The Wayside: House of Authors in Concord, MA. Introduction to Conservation and Preservation Efforts for Framed Photographs on Display.
3:00pm • (Objects) Rediscovering and assembling painted wooden boxes from King Tutankhamun's collection: a collaborative approach
3:00pm • (Architecture) Bridging the Gap Between Real and Virtual: A Digital Interface for a Building Materials Collection
3:00pm • (Book and Paper) Blueprint for Growth: A Journey of Architecture Designs
3:30pm • Afternoon Break in the Exhibit Hall
4:00pm • (Preventive Care) Heat protective covers: Enhancing Fire Preparedness for Cultural Collections and the case study of Emergency Planning in France
4:00pm • (Paintings) A Collaboration Between Two Private Practice Firms: The Conservation and Restoration of Noël Hallé’s Abraham and the Three Angels
4:00pm • (Electronic Media) Pay No Attention to that Unit Behind the Curtain: Identification, Assessment, and Documentation of Control Systems
4:00pm • (Textiles) Strategic(?) use of adhesive in treating fractured silk gauze layers of a complex garment.
4:00pm • (Photographic Materials) Handcrafted Preservation: Custom Storage Solutions for Photographs at the Archivo de la Memoria Trans Argentina
4:00pm • (Architecture) Partners in Preservation: The importance of collaboration during construction at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum
4:00pm • (Book and Paper) Expanding Access: Inclusive Conservation and Education Engagement at The UK National Archives
4:00pm • (Research & Technical Studies) The role of adsorption in the solubilization of paper degradation products: Using treatment observations as a springboard for scientific advances
4:00pm • (Objects) Mighty Powder: Demonstrating that fumed silica increases the adhesive strength of Acryloid B-72
4:00pm • (Contemporary Art) In name only? Collecting and caring for non-delegated performance artworks
4:30pm • (Paintings) Beva 371: past, present, and future
4:30pm • (Contemporary Art )A Prophylactic Treatment: Two Condom Collage Replications in Joanne Leonard’s Journal of a Miscarriage (1973)
4:30pm • (Book and Paper) Manuscripts that multiplied – stories from the parchment partnerships
4:30pm • (Research & Technical Studies) On the development of Xanthan-Konjac/Agar physical hydrogels and their analogs for conservation cleaning applications
4:30pm • (Photographic Materials) Conservation of the portrait of Leonardas Biržiška (1809 –1902)
4:30pm • (Electronic Media) Refining Workflows: Using the Iteration Report as an Advocacy Tool
4:30pm • (Objects) Exploring Consolidation of Degraded Natural Foam Rubber
4:30pm • (Architecture) It takes a village to save an American Treasure: Preserving the Swimming Pool Grotto ceiling mural at Vizcaya Museum and Gardens
4:30pm • (Textiles) Reflections on Twenty-Five Years in Private Practice
4:30pm • (Preventive Care) Turning Leaks into Lessons: Insights from a Water Leak Response in University Special Collections
4:45pm • (Photographic Materials) Developing Conservator: My Journey in Darkroom Photography
4:50pm • (Paintings) BEVA 371: An examination of morphological properties and the visualization of stress in mock painting samples using advanced thermal, spectroscopic, and imaging methods
5:00pm • (Book and Paper) Keeping the Wolf from the Door: Remediating the Effects of Pressure-sensitive Tape While Preserving Artistic Intention
5:00pm • (Textiles) Private Practice Panel
5:00pm • (Research & Technical Studies) Developments in Safer Solvent Selections for the Removal and Application of Synthetic Resins
5:00pm • (Electronic Media) More Than Meets the Eye: New Methods for Testing Artwork Iterations
5:00pm • (Contemporary Art ) On the intersection of art and human rights: Collective efforts to preserve the work of imprisoned artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara
5:00pm • (Paintings) Bringing BEVA 371 into the future: refinements and expanded forms
5:00pm • (Photographic Materials) De “mist”ifying the Dahlia Sprayer
5:00pm • (Preventive Care) Other duties as assigned: the unexpected tasks of preventive care and the lessons of a pre-program Preservation Assistant
5:00pm • (Objects) Bulked B-72 Fills
5:10pm • (Paintings) BEVA Q&A
5:30pm • PSG Happy Hour
5:45pm • Objects Group - Speed Networking Session TICKETED
