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Banner photo by Lane Pelovsky, Courtesy of Meet Minneapolis
Friday May 30, 2025 11:30am - 12:00pm CDT
The artist interview is one of the most valuable tools in the contemporary art conservator’s toolbelt, and it’s been over two decades since the field began to critically examine and formalize the practice. To close this session, co-hosted by Voices in Contemporary Art and the Contemporary Art Network, we'll ask contributing authors and the audience to reflect on how their approach to eliciting, analyzing, and sharing information from these dialogues has evolved over the years.
Speakers
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Sarah Barack

Head of Conservation/Senior Objects Conservator, Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum
Sarah Barack is currently the Head of Conservation and Senior Objects Conservator at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum. She received her Master’s in Art History and an Advanced Certificate of Conservation from the Conservation Center, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University... Read More →
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Steven O'Banion

Glenstone
Steven O’Banion is the Director of Conservation at Glenstone, responsible for comprehensively addressing the conservation needs of Glenstone’s collection. Steven graduated from Middlebury College with a major in Biochemistry and a minor in the History of Art and Architecture... Read More →
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Daniela Rivera

Wellesley College
Daniela Rivera is a Chilean artist based in Boston, MA, where she teaches at Wellesley College. Her work looks into cultural migration, labour and identity, and vulnerability as resistance. She is exhibiting mainly in the US and Latin America. Her MFA is from SMFA at Tufts University... Read More →
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Gwynne Ryan

Senior Conservator, CAS Conservation, LLC
Gwynne Ryan is the founder and Principal Conservator of CAS Conservation, LLC and a consultant for the Preservation department at Urban Arts Projects (UAP). Specializing in the conservation of contemporary art and large-scale outdoor sculpture with a research focus on the collaboration... Read More →
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Matthew Skopek

Melva Bucksbaum Director of Conservation, The Whitney Museum of American Art
Matthew Skopek has served as the Melva Bucksbaum Director of Conservation at the Whitney Museum of American Art since 2023. After receiving his MA and Advanced Certificate in Conservation from Buffalo State College in 2002 he had internships at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the... Read More →
Friday May 30, 2025 11:30am - 12:00pm CDT
Hyatt Regency Minneapolis

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