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AIC's 44th Annual Meeting

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Ariel O'Connor

Smithsonian American Art Museum
Objects Conservator
Washington, DC

americanart.si.edu/lunder/

Ariel O'Connor is an objects conservator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Lunder Conservation Center. Prior to joining SAAM in 2016, she worked at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, the Walters Art Museum, the Harvard Art Museums, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She graduated with an MA and CAS in Art Conservation from Buffalo State College in 2009.

3:00pm

(Tour) Old Montreal Microbreweries Registration DeskFILLING UP

8:30am

(General Session) General Session Keynote Speaker: Dr. Anne-Imelda Radice Room 210 AB/EFDr. Anne-Imelda Radice

9:30am

(General Session) Emergency Management since the Florence Flood – The Crooked Timber of Progress Room 210 AB/EFAndrew Robb

11:30am

(General Session) Preserving Trauma: Treatment Challenges at the 9/11 Memorial Museum Room 210 AB/EFJohn Childs • Maureen Merrigan

2:00pm

(Objects + Architecture) A Methodology for Documenting Preservation Issues Affecting Cultural Heritage in Syria and Iraq Room 710 BLeeAnn Barnes Gordon • Allison Cuneo • Susan Penacho • Bijan Rouhani

3:00pm

(Book and Paper) All Over the Map: Bringing Buffalo’s Stars of Cartography to Light (One Lining at a Time) Room 210 AB/EFStephanie Porto

4:00pm

(Wooden Artifacts) Aspects of the Manufacture of Chinese Kuan Cai Lacquer Screens Room 514Christina Hagelskamp

5:00pm

(Textiles) The Dark Side of the Force: Magnets, Velcro and Unintended Consequences Room 511 A/DJohn Childs • Maureen Merrigan

6:30pm

Opening Reception at the Musée des beaux-Arts de Montreal Musée des beaux-Arts de MontrealHuntington T. Block Insurance Agency

7:30am

(Objects) Objects Specialty Group Business Meeting Room 710 B

8:30am

(Objects + Wooden Artifacts) The Treatment and Installation of a Monumental Cedar Sculpture by Ursula von Rydingsvard Room 710 BEmily Hamilton

9:30am

(Objects + Wooden Artifacts) Decoys X-rayed: What Volume rad tomography and computed tomography contribute to technical study Room 710 BNancie Ravenel

11:00am

(Objects + Wooden Artifacts) Encountering the Unexpected in Southeast Asian Lacquer: Treating the Doris Duke Collection at the Walters Art Museum Room 710 BStephanie Hulman • Meg Loew Craft • Glenn Gates • Herant Khanjian • Michael R. Schilling

11:30am

(Research and Technical Studies) Visible-Induced Luminescence Imaging: Past, Current and Future Applications in Conservation Research Room 511 B/EGiacomo Chiari • Dawn Kriss • Caroline Roberts • Anna Serotta • Marie Svoboda

1:00pm

(Archaeological Conservation) Discussion Group Room 516 ELeeAnn Barnes Gordon

2:00pm

(General Session: Confronting the Unexpected) The Uses of Oral History in Documenting Disasters: A Case Study of the Florence Flood Room 210 AB/EFRebecca Anne Rushfield • Joyce Hill Stoner

2:30pm

(General Session: Confronting the Unexpected) Race, Diversity and Politics in Conservation: Our 21st Century Crisis Room 210 AB/EFSanchita Balachandran

3:00pm

(General Session: Get Ready, Get Set - Emergency Preparedness) Cologne Historical Archive Collapse: a critical history of emergency situation and ongoing disaster recovery process Room 710 ANadine Thiel • Marion Verborg • Bettina Schmidt-Czaia

4:00pm

(General Session: Lead by Example - Models to Follow) Alliance for Response New York City - Collaborations to Protect and Preserve Cultural Heritage Room 516 CDCindy Albertson • Elizabeth Nunan

5:00pm

(General Session: Confronting the Unexpected) The Challenges of Conservation of Artifacts from Major Disasters: Titanic, Challenger, Columbia and the World Trade Center Room 210 AB/EFElizabeth Beesley • Justine Posluszny Bello • Mark Rabinowitz • Joseph Sembrat

8:30pm

(Reception) Buffalo/Cooperstown Pre-Reunion Party Hyatt Regency - Imagination Room

9:00pm

North American Graduate Program Reunions Hyatt Regency - SIX Resto Lounge

10:00am

(Objects) Reverse Engineering Ancient Greek Ceramics: An Interdisciplinary Collaboration Room 710 BSanchita Balachandran • Patricia McGuiggan • Matthew Hyleck

10:30am

(Wooden Artifacts) Loss Compensation on Furniture: Traditional vs Modern Methods and Materials Room 514Behrooz Salimnejad

11:00am

(Objects) When in Rome, do as the Romans do? The Conservation of an Italian Marble and Micromosaic Tabletop Room 710 BElizabeth La Duc

11:15am

(Objects) An Unexpected Surface: Research and treatment of a 19th century mounted oyster shell by Froment-Meurice Room 710 BEmily Brown

11:30am

(Architecture) Post-Disaster Data Collection: Testing New Tools in Port-au-Prince, Haiti Room 515William Raynolds • Erica Avrami

12:00pm

(Objects) Objects Tips Room 710 B

2:30pm

(Objects) Conservation and investigation of ancient bodies at Abydos - Challenging work in post-revolutionary Egypt Room 516 ABMohamed Ahmed Ibrahim • Lucy-Anne Skinner

3:00pm

(Objects) Using Heat and Cold in the Treatment of a Lakota Winter Count Room 516 ABMadeleine Neiman • Nancy Odegaard • Dave Smith

4:00pm

Closing Reception and AIC & CAC Awards Presentations Room 710