AIC's 44th Annual Meeting

Susan is a Foundation of the American Institute for Conservation National Heritage Responder (FAIC -NHR) and is on the Boards of FAIC Emergency Committee and FAIC-NHR Working Group.  She responded to Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and Hurricane Sandy in 2012 – 2013.  As a National Heritage Responder,  Susan has deployed to mechanical malfunctions in historic houses and museums, and to NJ and NYC after Hurricane Sandy.  She... Read More →

ROSEMARY FALLON | Rosemary Fallon is a paper conservator at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. She received her M.S. and certificate in conservation from the Columbia University Conservation Program. In addition to her interest in researching modern and contemporary artists’ materials and techniques, she has spent considerable time engaged in research and activities related to the preservation of time based media art and... Read More →

Kim Norman is the Preservation Manager and Conservator at the Georgia Archives. Kim has been co-chair of the AIC Emergency Committee, program co-chair of the Alliance for Response network in Atlanta (HERA), as well as vice-president and president of the Southeastern Regional Conservation Association (SERCA). Kim is the ESF-11 designation from the Georgia Archives to GEMA and presents often on emergency preparedness, promoting disaster response... Read More →

Steven Pine is Senior Decorative Arts Conservator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. He is a former co-chair of the AIC Emergency Committee and is active in Alliance for Response networks in Texas and New York. He has assisted in recovery assessments and clean up of public and private collections after Katrina and Rita in 2005 and collaborated on recovery workshops in Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas. In May of 2006 he became part of the... Read More →

Brian Daniels is Director of Research and Programs for the Penn Cultural Heritage Center at the University of Pennsylvania Museum. He co-directs the Safeguarding the Heritage of Syria and Iraq Project, which aims to protect cultural heritage by supporting professionals and activists in impacted areas. He has worked with indigenous communities in western North America on issues surrounding heritage rights, repatriation, and recognition.

Jessica S. Johnson is the Head of Conservation at the Smithsonian’s Museum Conservation Institute (MCI), specializing in archaeological materials and ethnographic artifacts. Before coming to MCI in fall 2014, she worked with the University of Delaware, Institute for Global Studies, and helped to establish the Iraqi Institute for the Conservation of Antiquities and Heritage (IICAH) in Erbil, Iraq, where she lived and worked from 2009-2014... Read More →

As the Project Specialist at ICCROM, Ms. Tandon is leading its international capacity development programme on disaster risk management and its flagship training on First Aid to Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis. Additionally, she is coordinating and developing the activities of the SOIMA (Sound and Image Collections Conservation) program aimed at safeguarding endangered audiovisual heritage. Aparna has led post disaster assessments and... Read More →

Corine Wegener is Cultural Heritage Preservation Officer in the Office of the Under Secretary for History, Art, and Culture at the Smithsonian Institution. She coordinates Smithsonian’s disaster outreach programs for cultural heritage, including in Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Mali, Haiti, Nepal, and in the U.S. Wegener was founding president of the U.S. Committee of the Blue Shield and is Chair of the ICOM Disaster Relief for Museums Task Force.