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AIC's 46th Annual Meeting

Brianna Warren

The Menil Collection
Menil Drawing Institute, Conservation Studio Technician
Houston, TX

I am a recent graduate with a BA in Art History at California State University, Chico. I am currently serving as a Conservation Studio Technician at the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas. I have a strong interest in continuing my education through a Masters degree in Art Conservation with an emphasis in books and paper.

8:30am MDT

(Pre-session Symposium) The Current Use of Leather in Book Conservation Texas Ballroom ALIMITEDMarieka Kaye-[PA] • Henry Hebert-[PA] • James Reid Cunningham-[PA] • Emilie Demers • Ségolène Girard • Holly Herro • Katherine Kelly-[PA] • David Lanning • Laura McNulty • William Minter • Dan Paterson • Sarah Reidell-[Fellow] • Shelly Smith • Katie C. Wagner-[PA] • Dawn Walus • Kristi Wright

9:00am MDT

Packing, Crating, and Shipping Workshop River Oaks Meeting RoomFILLINGJason Carey-Sheppard • Meg Colbert • Aaron Salik • Jillian Salik Respirator Fit Test Clear Lake B Meeting RoomLIMITED

1:30pm MDT

Scholarly Writing: From Abstract to Publication Montrose Meeting RoomGeorge Cooper • Robin Hanson-[Fellow] • Julio M. del Hoyo-Meléndez • Bonnie Naugle

4:30pm MDT

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

6:00pm MDT

Early Exhibit Hall Access and Light Reception Texas Ballrooms E-H (Exhibit Hall)

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

10:00am MDT

Break in the Exhibit Hall Texas Ballrooms E-H (Exhibit Hall)

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

1:15pm MDT

Emerging Conservation Professionals Network (ECPN) Informational Meeting Tanglewood Meeting RoomRebecca Gridley • Kari Rayner

2:00pm MDT

(Book and Paper) Washi: Understanding Japanese paper as a material of culture and conservation Texas Ballroom DBrook Prestowitz • Yuki Katayama (Objects) Manipulating Materials: Preparing and Using Paraloid B-72 Adhesive Mixtures Texas Ballroom BStephen Koob-[Fellow] (Photographic Materials) Comparison of LED, L-37 Filtered Xenon Arc, and Glass-Filtered Cool White Fluorescent Illumination in the Light Fading and Light-Induced Staining of Color Photographs Hunters Creek Meeting RoomHenry Wilhelm • Richard Adams

2:30pm MDT

(Book and Paper) Optical Clearing of Repair Tissues for the Treatment of Translucent Papers Texas Ballroom DRoger S. Williams

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

3:30pm MDT

Break in the Exhibit Hall Texas Ballrooms E-H (Exhibit Hall)

4:00pm MDT

(Book and Paper) Chancery Master Exhibits - piecing it back together Texas Ballroom DSonja Schwoll-[ACR] • Dr. Lora Angelova • Rose Mitchell (Objects) Loss Compensation on Ceramics using Photogrammetry, Digital Modeling and 3D Printing Texas Ballroom BKathleen Garland-[Fellow] • Stephanie Spence • R. Bruce North (Photographic Materials) Finding a Balance: Conservation of the Dolley Madison Cased Image from the Greensboro History Museum Hunters Creek Meeting RoomMonique C. Fischer-[Fellow] • Terra Huber-[PA] (Research and Technical Studies + Textiles) A sizable sooty soiled surface: Analyzing and evaluating methods for surface cleaning a large painted muslin River Oaks Meeting RoomSusan Heald • Nora Frankel • Dr. Gwénaëlle Kavich • Thomas Lam • Nicole Little • Annaick Parker • Megan Doxsey Whitfield

4:30pm MDT

(Book and Paper) Peregrinations of an 18th-Century Armenian Prayer Scroll Texas Ballroom DXiaoping Cai • Emily Williams • Sylvia Albro-[PA] • Levon Avdoyan • Lynn Brostoff • Claire Dekle (Electronic Media) VR tools as spatial documentation Briargrove Meeting RoomJack McConchie (Objects) The Use of 3D Printing for Casting Proportional Replicas Used in the Treatment of Articulated Skeletons Texas Ballroom BChristine E Haynes • Julia Sybalsky • Fran E. Ritchie (Photographic Materials) Investigation of Portrait with Applied Oil Color Hunters Creek Meeting RoomAbbott Nixon • Luisa Casella

5:00pm MDT

(Book and Paper) Looking Back and Taking Stock – A Journey through Past Projects Texas Ballroom DElmer Eusman-[Fellow] (Electronic Media) Time-based Media Art Conservation Education Program at NYU: Concept and Perspectives Briargrove Meeting RoomChristine Frohnert • Hannelore Roemich (Objects) Conditioning Basketry Elements with Water and Ethanol: An Investigation into the Effects of Standard Conservation Methods Texas Ballroom BHayley Monroe • Ellen Pearlstein (Photographic Materials) How to Receive and Organize a Collection of 1 Million Photographs at Once? Material and Metadata Discussions Hunters Creek Meeting RoomRodrigo Bozzetti

6:30pm MDT

Book and Paper Group Reception Houston Natural Science MuseumPolygon • Sirma Americas • Hollinger Metal Edge Inc. • University Products, Inc. • Houston Museum of Natural Science

9:00pm MDT

ANAGPIC Graduate Programs Reunions Pool Deck - Marriott Marquis Houston

7:30am MDT

(Book and Paper) Book and Paper Group Business Meeting Texas Ballroom DWhitney Baker-[PA]

8:30am MDT

(Book and Paper) Small but bulky: a study on the rebinding of a portable 15th century book of hours Texas Ballroom DKimberly Kwan (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 (Research and Technical Studies + Wooden Artifacts) All that Glitters: Visualizing and Characterizing Gold Leaf through Macro-XRF Scanning Kingwood Meeting RoomDouglas MacLennan • Nathan Daly • Arlen Heginbotham • Lynn Lee • Catherine Schmidt Patterson • Yvonne Szafran • Karen Trentelman • Nancy Turner

9:00am MDT

(Book and Paper) Branded by Fire: Treatment of los Primeros Libros Texas Ballroom DJeanne Goodman (Electronic Media) Collaboration in the Aesthetic Zone: Trisha Brown and Robert Rauschenberg Briargrove Meeting RoomShu-Wen Lin • Cori Olinghouse • Francine Snyder (Photographic Materials) Revealing History with Moisture and Megabytes: Curled Panorama Prints from WWI and WWII Hunters Creek Meeting RoomKim R. Du Boise-[PA]

9:30am MDT

(Book and Paper) The unintended effects of some book treatments on original or early binding structures and materials Texas Ballroom DOlivia Primanis (Electronic Media) Lighting Round - Emulating Horizons (2008) by Geert Mul: the challenges of intensive graphics rendering Briargrove Meeting RoomClaudia Roeck (Textiles) Confronting Challenges and Considering Consensus in the Conservation of Eighteenth-Century Fashion River Oaks Meeting RoomMarina Hays

10:00am MDT

Break in the Exhibit Hall Texas Ballrooms E-H (Exhibit Hall)

10:30am MDT

(Book and Paper) Transparent Liquid Colors: "Not Just For Ornament" Texas Ballroom DJoan Irving (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 (Paintings) Material Matters Research for Rare Wall Murals revealed at the Historic Sinclair Inn Museum Texas Ballroom AJohn Ward • Emma Claire Hartman (Photographic Materials) Color Records: Wood’s Diffraction Process of Color Photography Hunters Creek Meeting RoomZach Long

11:00am MDT

(Book and Paper) John Singer Sargent: New insights into his watercolor materials and techniques Texas Ballroom DFrancesca Casadio • Agnese Babini • Veronica Biolcati • Mary Broadway • Danielle Duggins • Gianluca Pastorelli • Emeline Pouyet • Ken Sutherland • Marc Sebastian Walton (Electronic Media) Revealing Hidden Processes: Instrumentation and Reverse Engineering in the Conservation of Software-based Art Briargrove Meeting RoomTom Ensom (Research and Technical Studies + Wooden Artifacts) Bringing back color: Retouching faded furniture with colored light Kingwood Meeting RoomProf. Dr. Maarten R. van Bommel • Federica van Adrichem • Jaap Boonstra

11:30am MDT

(Book and Paper) Multi Spectral Imaging and the Digitization of the Dead Sea Scrolls Texas Ballroom DAshlyn Oprescu (Electronic Media) Establishing Preservation Practices for Net Art and App-Based Works Briargrove Meeting RoomCoral Salomón Photographic Materials Conservation Tips Hunters Creek Meeting Room

12:00pm MDT

(Book and Paper) 2018 Book and Paper Wiki Discussion Session Texas Ballroom DKatherine Kelly-[PA] • Denise Stockman

2:00pm MDT

(Material Questions) The Colors of Desire: Examination of Colorants in the Beauties of the Yoshiwara Texas Ballroom AMichiko Adachi • Michele Derrick • Richard Newman • Joan Wright-[PA] (Problematic Materials) Modern Materials: Not Our Fault, But Our Problem. Reflections on the Development of Conservation Treatments in Private Practice Texas Ballroom CGiuliana Moretto • Delia Müller Wüsten

2:30pm MDT

(Problematic Materials) Managing Expectations in Scrapbook Conservation Approaches Texas Ballroom CJennifer Hain Teper-[Fellow]

3:00pm MDT

(Material Questions) Martin Ramirez’s Creative Compulsions: The Composition, Construction and Conservation of His Monumental Collaged Drawings Texas Ballroom AHarriet K. Stratis-[PA] • Mary Broadway • Ken Sutherland (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

(Material Transfers & Translations) Flaming Pearls and Flying Phoenixes: Materiality, Research, and Stewardship of Liao Dynasty Metalwork Texas Ballroom BEvelyn Mayberger Break in the Exhibit Hall Texas Ballrooms E-H (Exhibit Hall) Poster Q + A with Authors Texas Ballroom (Foyer outside Ballrooms - Poster Session)West Dean College 01. (Research and Technical Studies) An American Icon in Plastic: The Technical Analysis, Study, & Treatment of a Early Edition 1959 Barbie Texas Ballroom (Foyer outside Ballrooms - Poster Session)Odile Madden • Morgan L Burgess • Marci Jefcoat Burton • David Hunt • Ellen Pearlstein 02. (Objects) Electroplated silver during a re-lacquering campaign at Winterthur: treatment and analytical insights Texas Ballroom (Foyer outside Ballrooms - Poster Session)Tia Polidori • Katelyn Rovito • Rosie Grayburn 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 19. (Objects) Cosmetics as artifacts: the analysis and conservation of a 1930s theatrical makeup kit Texas Ballroom (Foyer outside Ballrooms - Poster Session)Mary Wilcop • Nathan Eddingsaas • Jonathan Thornton 20. (Book and Paper) An In Depth Treatment Study of Humidification and Flattening in Paper Conservation Texas Ballroom (Foyer outside Ballrooms - Poster Session)Kesha Talbert-[PA] 21. (Book and Paper) Mass Deacidification Carrier Fluid Selection to Protect Media Texas Ballroom (Foyer outside Ballrooms - Poster Session)John W. Baty • La Verne Lopes • Kent John 22. (Collection Care) Nothing is Ever Simple: A Case Study in Flexible Project Management for Archives Conservation Texas Ballroom (Foyer outside Ballrooms - Poster Session)Alexander Bero 23. (Collection Care) Biblio-Archaeology: A Codicological Inventory, Condition Survey and Preservation Needs Assessment of Pre-Modern Codices and Incunabula in the Rare Books and Manuscripts Collection of the OSU... Texas Ballroom (Foyer outside Ballrooms - Poster Session)Danielle Demmerle 24. (Book and Paper) Pineapple Paper - A New Material from Taiwan for Paper Conservation Texas Ballroom (Foyer outside Ballrooms - Poster Session)Ting-Fu Fan 31. (Research and Technical Studies) Degradation makers of cellulose acetate during aging Texas Ballroom (Foyer outside Ballrooms - Poster Session)Liu Liu • Lukasz Bratasz 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 37. (Paintings) Archiving for the Museums Using the Ultra-High Resolution Scanning System Texas Ballroom (Foyer outside Ballrooms - Poster Session)Yasuhide Shimbata • Jay Arre Toque • Ari Ide-Ektessabi • Ryota Magara • Koji Okumura • Maasaki Taniguchi • Masahiro Toiya 38. (Book and Paper) You’re Printing What? Where? The material stability and safety of 3D printing thermoplastic polymers for fused filament fabrication. Texas Ballroom (Foyer outside Ballrooms - Poster Session)Fletcher B. Durant • Neelam Bharti 40. (Book and Paper) Extraction and Analysis of DNA from Renaissance-Style Prepared Paper Texas Ballroom (Foyer outside Ballrooms - Poster Session)Manija Kazmi • Thomas P. Sakmar • Karina C. Åberg • Thomas Huber • Rhonda K. Roby 44. (Book and Paper) Bold Will Hold: Investigating Artist Materials of Classic American Tattoo Flash Texas Ballroom (Foyer outside Ballrooms - Poster Session)Laura Moeller 50. (Book and Paper) Application of the Sewn Boards Binding for Field Books and Pocket Journals Texas Ballroom (Foyer outside Ballrooms - Poster Session)R William Bennett III • Nora Lockshin-[PA]

4:00pm MDT

(Material Questions) Connecting the dots: visitor interaction in contemporary art collections Texas Ballroom AAnouk Verbeek

4:30pm MDT

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

5:00pm MDT

(Imaging Technology) Using Photogrammetry to Understand the Mechanical Behavior of Bound Volumes Texas Ballroom DAlice S. Carver-Kubik • Jean-Louis Bigourdan • Douglas Nishimura • James Reilly (Material Questions) Between subtle and silent: the conservation of Max Neuhaus' Sound Figure at the Menil Collection Texas Ballroom ABradford Epley • Sarah Thompson

5:45pm MDT

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

7:30pm MDT

All-Attendee Reception at the MFAH MFAHHuntington T. Block Insurance Agency • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

7:45am MDT

AIC Member Business Meeting Texas Ballrooms E-H (Exhibit Hall)Margaret Holben Ellis

10:00am MDT

(Objects) Keeping them Ruby: The Preservation of Dorothy's Ruby Slippers Texas Ballroom BDawn MP Wallace • Regina Baglia • Mary W. Ballard • Janet G. Douglas • Dr. Gwénaëlle Kavich • Alba Alvarez Martin Poster Lightning Round Hunters Creek Meeting RoomRebecca Gridley • Kari Rayner • Association of North American Graduate Programs in Conservation (ANAGPIC)

10:30am MDT

(Book and Paper) Édouard Manet’s Pastels on Canvas Supports Texas Ballroom DChristine Conniff-O'Shea • Rachel Freeman • Don Johnson (Objects) Eva Hesse Addendum: Exploring Materiality and Emerging Technologies Texas Ballroom BTamar Maor • Dr. Angelica Bartoletti • Dr. Bronwyn Ormsby

11:00am MDT

(Book and Paper) Think Outside of the Box: Displaying Paper Objects Without Using Classic Method Texas Ballroom DHsuan-Yu Chen • Chi-Chun Lin • Jen Jung Ku (Textiles) Taking the strain: Strain monitoring to inform tapestry conservation and display River Oaks Meeting RoomFrances Lennard • Maggie Dobbie

11:30am MDT

(Book and Paper) Screenprint on Plastic (Some assembly required). A Case Study of Joe Tilson's "The Software Chart" 1968 Texas Ballroom DJoan Weir • Vincent Dion • Eric Henderson

12:00pm MDT

Book and Paper Tips Lunch Texas Ballroom ELIMITEDUniversity Products

2:00pm MDT

(Book and Paper + Electronic Media) Caring for Electrophotographic Art: A Case Study of the Pati Hill Archives at Arcadia University Texas Ballroom EGillian Marcus (Book and Paper) Improved methods of authentication and the resulting shifts in decision-making in parchment conservation Texas Ballroom DPatricia Engel • Matthew Collins

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 (Research and Technical Studies) Colors of Jazz: Identification of the colorants in Henri Matisse gouaches using a noninvasive approach Meyerland Meeting RoomAna Martins • Abed Haddad • Tiffany Tang

3:00pm MDT

(Research and Technical Studies) Tracing back: How trace elements in smalt and ultramarine used by 17th century Dutch artist Jan Steen, start to shed light on the chronology of his oeuvre Meyerland Meeting RoomSabrina Meloni • Dr. Ralph Haswell • Dr. Annelies van Loon • Dr. Onno de Noord

3:30pm MDT

(Paintings) Oxidized finger prints on Rudolf Stingel's golden, highly reflective ‘Carpet Paintings’ Texas Ballroom AMareike Opeña (Research and Technical Studies) Differential stability of cadmium yellow paints in Picasso’s ‘Femme’ Meyerland Meeting RoomDouglas MacLennan • Daniela Comelli • Markus Gross • Herant Khanjian • Joy Mazurek • Austin Nevin • Catherine Schmidt Patterson • Alan Phenix-[PA] • Karen Trentelman • Gianluca Valentini

4:30pm MDT

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

9:00am MDT

Angels Project The Printing Museum