AIC's 53rd Annual Meeting

AIC's 53rd Annual Meeting

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7:00am CDT

(Wellness) Lactation Room

7:00am CDT

(Wellness) Quiet Room

8:15am CDT

(Stumbling Towards Sustainability: Stories About Implementation) Introduction

8:30am CDT

(Stumbling Towards Sustainability: Stories About Implementation) Getting on the Same Page at NYPL: Learning Together to Advance Climate Action in Preservation and Exhibition Contexts

8:50am CDT

(Stumbling Towards Sustainability: Stories About Implementation) Sustainability across the collection multiverse

9:10am CDT

(Stumbling Towards Sustainability: Stories About Implementation) Sustainable Practices within Collection Care: Balancing Environmental Conditions with Institutional Demands

9:30am CDT

(Stumbling Towards Sustainability: Stories About Implementation) Panel Discussion

10:30am CDT

(Archaeological Heritage) From Ashes to Artifacts: the strategic recovery of collections from the Montpelier fire

10:30am CDT

(Architecture) Proposing an Alternative Methodology for Hurricane-Related Vulnerability Assessments of Built Heritage in Puerto Rico

10:30am CDT

(Contemporary Art + Electronic Media) Branching Out: Conservation of Nam June Paik’s Who’s Your Tree at the Indianapolis Museum of Art

10:30am CDT

(Objects) When Art Meets Engineering: Collaborative Approaches to Outdoor Sculpture Installations at the Toledo Museum of Art

10:30am CDT

(Paintings + Wooden Artifacts) Painting on a Ply: Exploring Innovative Treatments and Funding Solutions

10:30am CDT

(Preventive Care | Research & Technical Studies |MFT-IDG) Lighting Policy as an iterative process with MFT

10:30am CDT

(Textiles) You Had Me at Trello: Kanban Style Project Management in Conservation through Four Case Studies

10:30am CDT

(Book and Paper) Art on Paper Discussion Group - Citrates in Paper Conservation

10:30am CDT

(Book and Paper) Library and Archives Discussion Group - Managing Existing Mold on Library and Archives Collections

11:00am CDT

(Archaeological Heritage) Heritage West | Archaeology, Conservation, and Community in West Philadelphia

11:00am CDT

(Architecture) Colored Expectations, Whitewashed Reality: A.J. Downing's Influence and the Surprising Palette of Ivy Lodge

11:00am CDT

(Contemporary Art + Electronic Media) Collaborative Voices: Preserving Alan Rath's Electronic Legacy Through Shared Knowledge

11:00am CDT

(Objects) My Kingdom for a Drain: The Collaborative Treatment of Robert Gober’s Untitled Installation

11:00am CDT

(Paintings + Wooden Artifacts) Just Like the Real Thing: Jules Allard et Fils Reproduction Boiserie Period Rooms at the John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art

11:00am CDT

(Preventive Care | Research & Technical Studies |MFT-IDG) Shades of yellow: can MFT foretell light-induced color change of white paper?

11:00am CDT

(Textiles) WANTED: Cleaning Methods for Fugitive Early Synthetic Organic Acid Dyes on the Run

11:30am CDT

(Textiles) Thutmose III Mummy Shroud from Storage to Display: Challenges and Collaborative Insights into Preservation and Exhibition - Remote Presentation

11:30am CDT

(Archaeological Heritage) Hazy and Fragmented Memories: Revitalizing Two Archaeological Glass Carboy Bottles

11:30am CDT

(Architecture) Importance of Planning, Research, and Material Testing in Maintaining an Oldest Public Wood-and-Glass Greenhouse in the United States

11:30am CDT

(Contemporary Art and Electronic Media) Meet RALPH: The Reliable, Archival, Longterm Preservation Helper

11:30am CDT

(Objects) Collaboration on Restoring Henry Moore’s Bronze Form at the Getty Museum

11:30am CDT

(Paintings + Wooden Artifacts) Early case studies in the use of Xanthan-Konjac/Agar physical hydrogels and their analogs for conservation cleaning

11:30am CDT

(Preventive Care | Research & Technical Studies |MFT-IDG) Low Dose Microfade Testing in Air and Low Oxygen Environments to Optimize Long-Term Display for the Emancipation Proclamation

12:00pm CDT

Microfade Testing Informal Meetup

12:00pm CDT

(Luncheon) Paintings Conservation Tips Luncheon - $35

12:00pm CDT

(Luncheon) Socratic dialogue: What makes an object (in)valuable enough to conserve and preserve? $35

12:00pm CDT

(Luncheon) Sustainability in Collections Care: Centering on Context vs. Extending an Object’s Physical Life $35

2:00pm CDT

(Archaeological Heritage) When Conservation Goes For a Spin: Experiences gained and lessons learning from ten years of lifting and rotating large archaeological objects at the Mariners’ Museum and Park

2:00pm CDT

(Book and Paper) Adhesive Kinetics: the Folding Endurance of Wheat Starch Paste, Cellulose Ethers, and Photo-Grade Gelatin

2:00pm CDT

(Contemporary Art + Electronic Media) Balancing Aesthetics and Functionality: a continuous refinement to care for design objects

2:00pm CDT

(Paintings + Wooden Artifacts) The First Hundred Years of Masonite

2:00pm CDT

(Research & Technical Studies) Joe Overstreet: searching for an unknown truth

2:00pm CDT

(Textiles) Technical analysis of Anatolian Kilims: Bridging disciplines, departments and continents

2:00pm CDT

(Architecture) Panel on Laser Cleaning on Masonry Materials, Lessons Learned

2:00pm CDT

(Objects) Mercury: A Collection Component - A Panel Discussion

2:30pm CDT

(Archaeological Heritage) A Treatment Odyssey: The Preparation of 201 Ancient Cypriot Objects for Permanent Display

2:30pm CDT

(Book and Paper) Evaluating the effectiveness of alum-tawed parchment as a repair material

2:30pm CDT

(Contemporary Art + Electronic Media) Exploring 3D Documentation for Time-based Media artworks: Case Studies from the Smithsonian Institution

2:30pm CDT

(Paintings + Wooden Artifacts) Collaborative conservation of a monumental altarpiece: Vivarini’s Virgin and Dead Christ with the Ascension and Saints

2:30pm CDT

(Research & Technical Studies) Secret Sauce: Investigating the Materials in Whistler’s Nocturnes

2:30pm CDT

(Textiles) When UFOs invade: Displaying unfinished objects

3:00pm CDT

(Archaeological Heritage) Setting Up Shop: Objects Conservation and Materials Analysis at Pañamarca, Peru

3:00pm CDT

(Book and Paper) Reconsidering Klucel M: A Comparative Study of Commonly Used Cellulose Ethers in Paper Conservation

3:00pm CDT

(Contemporary Art + Electronic Media) Teams of Care: Transfer Data Trust and the Case for Networked Artist Studios

3:00pm CDT

(Paintings + Wooden Artifacts) X-ray Dendro: DIY CT Tree Ring Measurement for Dating Wooden Panels

3:00pm CDT

(Research & Technical Studies) The Chronology of a Painting - Le Déjeuner sur l’Herbe: Sketch, Copy or Replica

3:00pm CDT

Textile Specialty Group Wiki Discussion

3:30pm CDT

(Archaeological Heritage) Forging Ahead: Creosote Removal from the Valley Forge National Park Upper Forge Site

3:30pm CDT

(Paintings + Wooden Artifacts) Collaboration past and present: the collective investigation and treatment of the Saint John the Baptist altarpiece from the workshop of Blasco de Grañén

3:30pm CDT

(Research & Technical Studies) Exploring the High-temperature Degradation of Athenian Red-figure Pottery Used in Cremation Burials

3:30pm CDT

Book and Paper Tips Session

4:00pm CDT

AIC Member Business Meeting

5:00pm CDT

8th Annual Mistakes Session