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AIC's 46th Annual Meeting

Abigail Choudhury

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Program Associate
New York, NY

https://mellon.org

Abigail Choudhury is a program associate in the Arts and Cultural Heritage program, specializing in grants in the field of Art History, Conservation, and Museums. Prior to joining the Foundation in 2017, Ms. Choudhury held a position at the Smithsonian American Art Museum where she was a program coordinator for the Lunder Conservation Center. Previously she worked at the Foundation of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works where she focused on managing professional development programming, grants and scholarships, fundraising, and social media communications. She received her BA in art history and archaeology from the University of Maryland.

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(Pre-session Symposium) Whose Cultural Heritage? Whose Conservation Strategy?FILLING Texas Ballroom AAnisha Gupta • Kimi Taira • Jennifer Hain Teper • Dr. Renee S. Anderson • Thomas J. Braun • Shannon A. Brogdon-Grantham • Martina Dawley • Susanne Gänsicke-[PA] • Barbara Adams Hebard • Casey Mallinckrodt • Caryl McFarlane • Kelly McHugh • Erin Murphy • Yoshiyuki Nishio • Debbie Hess Norris-[Fellow] • Sheila Payaqui • Ellen Pearlstein • Landis Smith • Melissa Tedone-[PA] • Lalena A. Vellanoweth • Sirma Americas

4:30pm MDT

Houston 2018: Storytelling as Preservation Texas Ballroom CSanchita Balachandran-[Fellow] • Julianna Ly • LaStarsha Dee McGarity • Sonia Guiñansaca • Deana Haggag • Rick Lowe

5:30pm MDT

NHR Business Meeting Westchase Meeting RoomJessica Unger

7:30pm MDT

Emerging Conservation Professionals Network (ECPN) Happy Hour Grotto DowntownGetty Conservation Institute

8:20am MDT

Opening General Session - Welcome and Awards Texas Ballrooms A-DMargaret Holben Ellis

9:00am MDT

Materiality and Immateriality in Conserving Contemporary Art Texas Ballrooms A-DGlenn Wharton

9:30am MDT

Practicing what we preach: An argument for the recognition and preservation of a material culture of conservation Texas Ballrooms A-DCarrie McNeal

11:00am MDT

Preserving Innovation: Considering the Treatment and Materiality of 3D Printed Objects in Museum Collections Texas Ballrooms A-DVanessa Applebaum

11:30am MDT

The Physical Nature of Digital & What it Means for Conservation Texas Ballrooms A-DCrystal Sanchez • Lauren Sorensen

12:00pm MDT

Opening General Session Discussion Session Texas Ballrooms A-D

2:00pm MDT

(Electronic Media) Rewind, Pause, Playback: Addressing a Media Conservation Backlog at the Denver Art Museum Briargrove Meeting RoomEddy Colloton • Kate Moomaw (Paintings) Surprise Encounters with Mummy Portraits at the Art Institute of Chicago Texas Ballroom ARachel C. Sabino-[PA] • Emeline Pouyet • Federica Pozzi • Ken Sutherland • Marc Sebastian Walton

2:30pm MDT

(Architecture + Archaeological Conservation) Loves Me like a Rock: Care and Preservation of Ancient Graffiti in a Rock-Cut Kushite Temple Texas Ballroom CSuzanne Davis • Janelle Batkin-Hall • Caroline Roberts (Electronic Media) Archiving Computer-based Artworks Briargrove Meeting RoomJonathan Farbowitz (Objects) Visible effects of adhesive and pressure on color in kingfisher feathers Texas Ballroom BEllen Pearlstein (Research and Technical Studies + Textiles) Untangling Indian Hemp: Understanding and Identifying Common Plant Fibers Used by Native Americans in the Woodlands Region River Oaks Meeting RoomNora Frankel • Susan C. Heald • Thomas Lam

3:00pm MDT

(Architecture + Archaeological Conservation) A Collaborative Model for Rock Art Conservation in the Algerian Desert Texas Ballroom CHakim Bouakkache • Julia M Brennan-[PA] (Electronic Media) Conservation Surveys for Time-based Media Art Collections Briargrove Meeting RoomMona Jimenez (Photographic Materials) Platinum and Palladium Photographs - Rediscoveries Hunters Creek Meeting RoomConstance McCabe (Research and Technical Studies + Textiles) The Norwich textile reference database, a collections care project River Oaks Meeting RoomDr. Jocelyn Alcantara Garcia • Michael Nix

4:00pm MDT

(Electronic Media) Sounds Challenging: Documenting the Identity and Iterations of Ragnar Kjartansson's "The Visitors" Briargrove Meeting RoomAmy Brost

4:30pm MDT

(Architecture + Archaeological Conservation) Preventive conservation training in the Moche Valley, Peru Texas Ballroom CJessica Walthew • Alicia Boswell

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(Collection Care) Vibration testing and wandering of objects in a natural history collection Meyerland Meeting RoomWilliam Wei • Esther Dondorp (Electronic Media) Time-based Media Art Conservation Education Program at NYU: Concept and Perspectives Briargrove Meeting RoomChristine Frohnert • Hannelore Roemich

6:30pm MDT

Electronic Media Group Networking Reception Live Oak Friends Meeting HouseLive Oak Friends Meeting House

8:30am MDT

(Collection Care) Materials Selection for Storage, Exhibit, & Transport: A Moderated Panel Discussion Meyerland Meeting RoomPamela Hatchfield • Catharine Hawks • Eric Breitung • University Products • Andrew Robb • Michael Skalka (Objects + Archaeological Conservation) Facial Reconstruction of Ancient Egyptian Mummies: Experiences from the Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum Texas Ballroom BSanchita Balachandran-[Fellow] • Juan Garcia • Mark Roughley • Kathryn Smith • Meg Swaney • Caroline Wilkinson

9:00am MDT

(Electronic Media) Collaboration in the Aesthetic Zone: Trisha Brown and Robert Rauschenberg Briargrove Meeting RoomShu-Wen Lin • Cori Olinghouse • Francine Snyder (Objects + Archaeological Conservation) Gold Working at Ur: A Collaborative Project to Better Understand Ancient Gold Smithing Texas Ballroom BTessa de Alarcon • Moritz Jansen • Dr. Richard Zettler

9:30am MDT

(Photographic Materials) From Here On and Beyond: Researching Objects, History and Collection at The Museum of Modern Art Hunters Creek Meeting RoomLee Ann Daffner

10:30am MDT

(Electronic Media) Introducing ‘Code Resituation’: Applying the Concept of Minimal Intervention to the Conservation Treatment of Software-based Art Briargrove Meeting RoomDeena Engel • Joanna Phillips

11:00am MDT

(Architecture) Transportation, Installation, and Conservation of the 20th c. fresco 'Haitian Massacre, 1937': Challenges, solutions, and contributions Texas Ballroom CViviana Dominguez-[PA] • Hilda Abreu Utermohlen-[Fellow] (Electronic Media) Revealing Hidden Processes: Instrumentation and Reverse Engineering in the Conservation of Software-based Art Briargrove Meeting RoomTom Ensom (Textiles) The Hidden Codex, A discussion of loss of cultural heritage of the history and religion of indigenous people and its impact on Mesoamerican studies through the examination of a possible newly discovered... River Oaks Meeting RoomKelly H. Gross • Loren Jeffries • Roger Sexton

11:30am MDT

(Electronic Media) Establishing Preservation Practices for Net Art and App-Based Works Briargrove Meeting RoomCoral Salomón (Objects + Archaeological Conservation) Measuring the burial microenvironment on an archaeological site as an aid to the conservation management of artifacts in the museum Texas Ballroom BIan D. MacLeod • Alice Boccia Paterakis

2:00pm MDT

(Imaging Technology) High-Resolution Imaging as a new Research Tool in the Rijksmuseum Texas Ballroom DSusan Smelt • Robert Erdmann • Rik Klein Gotink • Petria Noble • Gwen Tauber • Carola van Wijk (Material Transfers & Translations) Tauba Auerbach’s Altar/Engine: a case study in reconceptualizing materiality Texas Ballroom BPeter Oleksik • Megan Randall

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(Long-Form Concurrent Session) Materiality: A Series of Questions Hunters Creek Meeting RoomLance Mayer • Gay Myers (Material Questions) Explosive Beauty: Material Studies of Cai Guo-Qiang Texas Ballroom ARachel Rivenc • Vincent Beltran • Vincent Dion • Michael Doutre

3:00pm MDT

(Problematic Materials) The painting’s life, silk or paper: materials and methods for lining a 15th-century Chinese handscroll at the Cleveland Museum of Art Texas Ballroom CYi-Hsia Hsiao

3:30pm MDT

05. (Objects) Preserving the Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Leatherface Texas Ballroom (Foyer outside Ballrooms - Poster Session)Morgan L Burgess • Olivia Primanis 09. (Book and Paper) An Experimental Gel-Based Treatment of Iron Gall Ink Corrosion Halos: Sodium Metabisulfite and Diethylene Triamine Pentaacetic Acid Solution in Agarose Gel Texas Ballroom (Foyer outside Ballrooms - Poster Session)Kelly M Conlin • Rosaleen Hill • Alison Murray 10. (Book and Paper) (Un)Finished Thoughts: Approaches to Conserving Transitory States in the Working Documents of Gwendolyn Brooks Texas Ballroom (Foyer outside Ballrooms - Poster Session)Quinn Morgan Ferris 13. (Research and Technical Studies) Sticking with it: Following up on HSC’s effort to develop a user-driven adhesives database Texas Ballroom (Foyer outside Ballrooms - Poster Session)Andrea KI Hall • Andrea KI Hall • Molly McGath • Dr. Patricia McGuiggan 32. (Contemporary Art) Conservation of The Spirit of Sunday in Shaw by Billy Colbert; Challenges of Treatment Design and Execution for Oversized, Contemporary, Multimedia Artwork Texas Ballroom (Foyer outside Ballrooms - Poster Session)Kristen Loudermilk

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(Material Questions) Connecting the dots: visitor interaction in contemporary art collections Texas Ballroom AAnouk Verbeek (Material Transfers & Translations) Collecting Collections: negotiating the complexities of material value at the National Park Service Texas Ballroom BJoannie Bottkol • Angela Campbell

4:30pm MDT

(Material Questions) An Enlightened Perspective: Balancing Artist Intent with Conservation Concerns Texas Ballroom AChristopher Mazza • Sarah Scaturro

5:00pm MDT

(Problematic Materials) The Day Day-Glo loses its Glo(w): An Interdisciplinary Approach in Conserving Artworks Containing Daylight Fluorescent Paints Texas Ballroom CStefanie De Winter

5:45pm MDT

All-Attendee Reception at the MFAH - Pre Gallery Viewing MFAH

10:00am MDT

(Research and Technical Studies) The human endeavour: when source communities, conservators and scientists collaborate Meyerland Meeting RoomDr. Nancy Odegaard

10:30am MDT

(Research and Technical Studies) Big Things Come in Small Packages: The Materials Analysis Lab at Colonial Williamsburg and its Impact Throughout the Foundation Meyerland Meeting RoomKirsten T. Moffitt (Textiles) Pointing in the Right Direction: Identifying Technological Features to Orient Navajo Textiles River Oaks Meeting RoomBetsy Burr • Dr. Nancy Odegaard • Delana Joy Farley • Ann Lane Hedlund

11:30am MDT

(Electronic Media) Unsustainable digital collections Briargrove Meeting RoomJo Ana Morfin (Electronic Media) What Happened When? Creating Retroactive Iteration Reports for Time-based Media Artworks Briargrove Meeting RoomAlexandra Nichols

2:00pm MDT

(Sustainability) Access to Shared Knowledge: Developing a Sustainable Workflow for Archiving Collaborative Engagement Documentation at NMAI’s Conservation Department Hunters Creek Meeting RoomDiana Gabler

2:30pm MDT

(Book and Paper + Electronic Media) Preserving the Protest: Collection and Care of Social Movement Archives [Archives Conservation Discussion Group] Texas Ballroom EKim R. Du Boise-[PA] • Stephanie I. Gowler • Dawn Mankowski • Flavia Perugini • Crystal Sanchez • Whitney Baker-[PA] • Daniel Burge • Roy T. Canizaro • Dan Erdman • Cher Schneider-[PA] (Book and Paper) LCCDG: Matters at Hand: The evolution of staffing and prioritization in library conservation labs Texas Ballroom DAngela Andres-[PA] • Sofia I. Barron • Jessamy Gloor-[PA] • Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa • Werner Haun • Laura McCann • Jessica L. Pace • Ashleigh Schieszer • Lauren Telepak

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(Sustainability) Change in Collection Management Strategy with Climate Change Phenomenon in Thar Desert Hunters Creek Meeting RoomVikram S. Rathore

4:00pm MDT

(Objects) Understanding the Form, Materials, and Meaning of Two Ritual Figures: Conservation and Curatorial Collaboration for the Analysis and Treatment of the Historic Arts of Africa Texas Ballroom BCasey Mallinckrodt • Ashley Duhrkoop • Dr. Ndubuisi (Endy) Ezeluomba

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A Failure Shared is Not a Failure: Learning from Our Mistakes Texas Ballrooms F-HRebecca Gridley • Anthony Sigel • Bruker Corporation