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AIC's 46th Annual Meeting

Christine E Haynes

Preservation Arts
Assistant Objects Conservator
San Francisco Bay Area, CA

CHRISTINE HAYNES is Assistant Objects Conservator at Preservation Arts (Oakland, California). Her research interest is in modern and contemporary art, especially plastic polymers and composite material. Christine trained at the Conservation Center of the Institute of Fine Arts NYU, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.

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

2:00pm MDT

(Electronic Media) Rewind, Pause, Playback: Addressing a Media Conservation Backlog at the Denver Art Museum Briargrove Meeting RoomEddy Colloton • Kate Moomaw (Research and Technical Studies + Textiles) Fiber and Yarn Cross-section Sample Preparation Methods for Effective Plant Fiber Material Characterization and Identification River Oaks Meeting RoomRunying Chen • Tom Fink

2:30pm MDT

(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 (Paintings) A Convenient Method: Canvas Painting in 16th Century Florence Texas Ballroom AJean Dommermuth-[Fellow]

3:00pm MDT

(Electronic Media) Conservation Surveys for Time-based Media Art Collections Briargrove Meeting RoomMona Jimenez (Objects) Manganese Stain Reduction on an Ancient Greek Terracotta Vase Texas Ballroom BSusan Costello-[PA] • Katherine Eremin • Georgina M. Rayner

3:30pm MDT

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

4:00pm MDT

(Collection Care) Making the Most of What You Have: Digital Documentation Solutions Utilizing Existing Software Meyerland Meeting RoomRaina Chao-[PA] • L. H.(Hugh) Shockey-[PA] • Mike Peters (Electronic Media) Sounds Challenging: Documenting the Identity and Iterations of Ragnar Kjartansson's "The Visitors" Briargrove Meeting RoomAmy Brost (Objects) Loss Compensation on Ceramics using Photogrammetry, Digital Modeling and 3D Printing Texas Ballroom BKathleen Garland-[Fellow] • Stephanie Spence • R. Bruce North

4:30pm MDT

(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 (Textiles) Practical Applications of Conservation and Restoration Strategies for Historical Clothing in Uncontrolled Historical Houses River Oaks Meeting RoomProf. Dr. Harby Ezzeldeen Ahmed

5:00pm MDT

(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

7:00pm MDT

Objects and Architecture Reception Heritage SocietySirma Americas • Bruker Corporation • Heritage Society • GC Laser Systems

9:00pm MDT

ANAGPIC Graduate Programs Reunions Pool Deck - Marriott Marquis Houston

8:30am MDT

(Architecture) The development of modern organic materials, 1845-1930 Texas Ballroom CNorman Weiss (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 (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

(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

(Objects + Archaeological Conservation) The Tell-Tale Conservation of Two 2,000 Year Old Leather Water-Skins Texas Ballroom BIrit Lev Beyth • Hadas Seri • Liatte Dotan • Jessica Lewinsky

10:00am MDT

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

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 (Objects + Archaeological Conservation) Hot Tub Time Machine: A Heated Water System for Artifact Disassembly and Treatment Texas Ballroom BWilliam Hoffman • Ralph Spohn (Research and Technical Studies + Wooden Artifacts) Another Look at Conserving a Japanned High Chest Kingwood Meeting RoomChristopher Swan • Kirsten T. Moffitt

11:00am MDT

(Electronic Media) Revealing Hidden Processes: Instrumentation and Reverse Engineering in the Conservation of Software-based Art Briargrove Meeting RoomTom Ensom (Objects + Archaeological Conservation) ‘All That Is Gold Does Not Glitter’: Developing Guidelines for the Recovery of Tin-plate on Mineralized Archaeological Iron through Material Analysis Texas Ballroom BMichelle Crepeau • Nicola Emmerson • David Watkinson (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

(Electronic Media) Establishing Preservation Practices for Net Art and App-Based Works Briargrove Meeting RoomCoral Salomón

2:00pm MDT

(Natural History Collections) Moose on the Move: Relocation and Conservation of the Bell Museum’s Diorama Murals River Oaks Meeting RoomLuke Boehnke • Kristine Jeffcoat-[PA] • Tom Amble • Megan Emery-[Fellow] • Don Luce (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

(Material Questions) Explosive Beauty: Material Studies of Cai Guo-Qiang Texas Ballroom ARachel Rivenc • Vincent L. Beltran • Vincent Dion • Michael Doutre (Material Transfers & Translations) Whitney Replication Committee: Transparency in the Age of Reproduction Texas Ballroom BMargo Delidow-[PA] • Clara Rojas Sebesta • Farris Wahbeh (Natural History Collections) Preserving Penn’s Woods: The restoration of the Mammal Hall dioramas at the State Museum of Pennsylvania River Oaks Meeting RoomRachael Perkins Arenstein-[PA] • Eugenie Milroy • George Dante • Stephen C. Quinn

3:00pm MDT

(Natural History Collections) Ongoing Investigations into the Use of Metal-Complex Solvent Dyes for Recoloring Faded Hair and Fur River Oaks Meeting RoomJulia Sybalsky • Judith Levinson • Fran E. Ritchie • Paul Whitmore-[Fellow]

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) 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 03. (Objects) THEOPHILUS ON THE HARDENING OF STEEL FILES Texas Ballroom (Foyer outside Ballrooms - Poster Session)Katrina Zacharias • Aaron Shugar • Jonathan Thornton 05. (Objects) Preserving the Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Leatherface Texas Ballroom (Foyer outside Ballrooms - Poster Session)Morgan L Burgess • Olivia Primanis 07. (Collection Care) Cadmium Plating in Scientific and Technological Collections Texas Ballroom (Foyer outside Ballrooms - Poster Session)Arianna Carini Johnston • Lauren Horelick 08. (Collection Care) Mercuric Chloride Reduction on Feathers Texas Ballroom (Foyer outside Ballrooms - Poster Session)Stephanie Cashman • Aaron Shugar 12. (Textiles) A preliminary evaluation of lining and surface patching techniques for doped aircraft fabric Texas Ballroom (Foyer outside Ballrooms - Poster Session)Lauren M. Gottschlich • Lauren Horelick 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 18. (Objects) The Use and Effect of Pickering Particle Emulsions and Cyclomethicone Cleaning Systems in the Treatment of Hair in Water-Sensitive Composite Objects Texas Ballroom (Foyer outside Ballrooms - Poster Session)Amaris Sturm 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 27. (Research and Technical Studies) The Permeation of Vapors through Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) films Texas Ballroom (Foyer outside Ballrooms - Poster Session)Dr. Patricia McGuiggan • Andrea KI Hall • Molly McGath • Bill Minter 28. (Architecture) Art or Awful: The Preservation and Conservation of Graffiti Texas Ballroom (Foyer outside Ballrooms - Poster Session)Stephanie M. Hoagland 30. (Electronic Media) Using Open Source Software as New Media artworks restoration method and evaluate its pros and cons: A case study of New Media Art collection of National Museums in Taiwan. Texas Ballroom (Foyer outside Ballrooms - Poster Session)Tzu-chuan Lin 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 35. (Research and Technical Studies) Optimizing Paint Cross-Section Preparation for Modern and Contemporary Art: A Case Study Texas Ballroom (Foyer outside Ballrooms - Poster Session)Jia-sun Tsang • Stephanie Barnes • Elle D Friedberg • Thomas Lam 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 39. (Archaeological Conservation) Stone-panelled red lacquer wooden table excavated from King Lu’s tomb of Ming Dynasty and its lacquer technique study Texas Ballroom (Foyer outside Ballrooms - Poster Session)Jianlan Wang • Yunpeng Wang • Junping Xu 45. (Archaeological Conservation) The two layers technique for supporting and assembling severely damaged composed sandals of King Tutankhamun Texas Ballroom (Foyer outside Ballrooms - Poster Session)Safwat Mohammed 51. (Natural History) Putting the Monkey Back in the Classroom: the Conservation and Restoration of a Mounted Guenon Monkey Texas Ballroom (Foyer outside Ballrooms - Poster Session)Joy Bloser • Julia Sybalsky • Fran E. Ritchie

4:00pm MDT

(Imaging Technology) A New Workflow for Color and Tone Calibrated Multispectral Imaging Texas Ballroom DMarina Ruiz Molina • Anna Serotta • Scott Geffert (Long-Form Concurrent Session) Lessons from Irma and Harvey: Preparation and Response in the 2017 Hurricane Season Hunters Creek Meeting RoomKelly Ciociola • Lauren R. Hall-[PA] • Rustin Levenson-[Fellow] • Steven Pine-[PA] (Material Questions) Connecting the dots: visitor interaction in contemporary art collections Texas Ballroom AAnouk Verbeek

4:30pm MDT

(Imaging Technology) Integrating Multispectral Imaging, Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI), and Photogrammetry for Archaeological Objects Texas Ballroom DEmily Frank • Dr. Sebastian Heath • Chantal Stein (Material Questions) An Enlightened Perspective: Balancing Artist Intent with Conservation Concerns Texas Ballroom AChristopher Mazza • Sarah Scaturro

5:00pm MDT

(Material Questions) Between subtle and silent: the conservation of Max Neuhaus' Sound Figure at the Menil Collection Texas Ballroom ABradford Epley • Sarah Thompson (Natural History Collections) Eggstraordinary: The conservation and mounting of historically significant great auk eggs River Oaks Meeting RoomArianna Lea Bernucci • Amin Garbout • Duncan Jackson • Amy Scott Murray • Douglas G. D. Russell (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

10:00am MDT

(Electronic Media) Looking Forwards and Backwards: Practical Approaches to the Stewardship of Time-Based Media Art Briargrove Meeting RoomErin Barsan • Elise Tanner (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

10:30am MDT

(Architecture) Laser Ablation for the Removal of Biofilm at the Thomas Jefferson Memorial: a Test Case and Critical Evaluation Texas Ballroom CJustine P. Bello-[PA] (Electronic Media) A steep learning curve: developments in the field of time-based art conservation in Australia Briargrove Meeting RoomAsti Sherring (Objects) Eva Hesse Addendum: Exploring Materiality and Emerging Technologies Texas Ballroom BTamar Maor • Dr. Angelica Bartoletti • Dr. Bronwyn Ormsby

11:00am MDT

(Wooden Artifacts) Tilia and Tilt-A-Jet: abrasive jet-machining towards the treatment and re-mounting of a Grinling Gibbons overmantel Kingwood Meeting RoomKaren Bishop • Mary Wilcop • Marcus Brathwaite • Beth Edelstein • Colleen E. Snyder

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 (Objects) Preparing the Apollo 11 Columbia for Its National Tour Texas Ballroom BLisa Young (Wooden Artifacts) An Experimental and Practical Study of Some Gap-Fillers for wood and wooden antiquities Kingwood Meeting RoomDr. Hany Hanna

12:00pm MDT

(Electronic Media) Getting It On Record: Stabilization, Enhanced Imaging, and Documentation of Archival Instantaneous Audio Discs Briargrove Meeting RoomDave Walker

2:00pm MDT

(Objects) Ghost Lives On: The treatment of Rachel Whiteread's monumental plaster sculpture Texas Ballroom BJudy L. Ozone-[PA] • Shelley G. Sturman-[Fellow] • Andrew Watt (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

(Objects) ‘Once in a Whale': The Conservation Treatment of Historic Cetacea at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History Texas Ballroom BBethany Palumbo

3:00pm MDT

(Architecture) Alkoxysilane Sol-Gel Consolidants for Calcareous Stones Texas Ballroom CAlison Rohly • Dr. Dean Webster (Textiles) Let there be light? An investigation into light-induced changes of the early synthetic aniline dye magenta under indoor lighting conditions River Oaks Meeting RoomMichelle Hunter • Anita Quye

3:30pm MDT

(Architecture) From Wreckage to Relics: Conserving and Exhibiting Fragments from Frank Lloyd Wright’s Midway Gardens Texas Ballroom CJessica Betz Abel • Ellen Moody • Joy Bloser • Chris McGlinchey • George Wheeler (Objects) “Ivory, bone and hide: Material identification of a 19th c. Greenland Inuit dog sledge collected by Admiral Peary” Texas Ballroom BJudy Jungels • Dan Kirby

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

4:30pm MDT

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