Name: (Pre-session Symposium) Whose Cultural Heritage? Whose Conservation Strategy?
Start: 2018-05-30T08:30:00-0600
End: 2018-05-30T16:15:00-0600

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Be part of AIC’s first Symposium on diversity, equity, inclusion and access in cultural heritage preservation. The Symposium will be divided into two parts. Part one will focus on the changing ways that museums and conservators are engaging with the diverse communities from which their collections originate. This program will be highly interactive as all as informative.

Sessions include:

A panel focusing on new resources to assist conservators and collection care specialists in working collaboratively with Native American communities. The panel will also focus on collaborative conservation case studies from the National Museum of the American Indian
A discussion of a recent survey on the effectiveness of Australian museums outreach efforts to the Aboriginal community.
A Case Study Lighting Round – hear how four different organizations engaged with diverse communities
Part Two will focus on what are the barriers to promoting a more diverse workforce in cultural heritage conservation and how can they be overcome. What success stories are out there and how can they be reproduced. Sessions include:
A review of the findings of the July – Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Art Museum Staff Demographic Survey which confirms a lack of diversity within the conservation field. Learn about some of the programs designed to foster diversity within the field
A discussion of the WUDPAC research study to assess the WUDPAC curriculum content and delivery through a multicultural lens
A panel of colleagues shares their individual journeys and discusses the obstacles they faced in becoming part of the conservation community.

Download a complete listing of talks with abstracts below. Lunch is included.

Moderators

Anisha Gupta

Assistant Conservator, American Philosophical Society

Anisha Gupta is the Assistant Conservator for Archival Materials at the American Philosophical Society. She is a graduate of the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation where she specialized in works on paper with a minor concentration in photographic materials... Read More →

Kimi Taira

Assistant Conservator, Works on Paper, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco

Jennifer Hain Teper

Head of Preservation, University of Illinois

Jennifer Hain Teper is Head of Preservation, University Libraries, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with an MSLIS and CAS in the conservation of library and archive materials in 2000. She oversaw the construction of the... Read More →

Speakers

Dr. Renee S. Anderson

Collection Manager/Registrar, National Museum of African American History & Culture

Dr. Reneé S. Anderson is the Head of Collections at the National Museum of African American History & Culture, Smithsonian Institution. She coordinates and oversees program activities related to collections management. Dr. Anderson serves as the Principal Investigator for grants... Read More →

Thomas J. Braun

Head of Conservation and Senior Objects Conservator, Minnesota Historical Society

Thomas J. Braun is the Head of Conservation and the Senior Objects Conservator at the Minnesota Historical Society (MNHS). Tom holds a BA in Art History from the University of Minnesota, an MA in Art History from Tufts University, and an MS in Art Conservation from the Winterthur/University... Read More →

Shannon A. Brogdon-Grantham

Photograph Conservator, Museum Conservation Institute, Smithsonian

Shannon A. Brogdon-Grantham is the photograph and paper conservator at the Smithsonian’s Museum Conservation Institute (MCI). She obtained her MS from the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation where she specialized in photograph conservation with minor concentrations... Read More →

Martina Dawley

Assistant Curator for American Indian Relations, Arizona State Museum

My research is primarily focused on the intersection of American Indians and museums, specifically in conservation. I am working on a book based on my dissertation "An Analysis of Diversifying Museum Studies: American Indians in Conservation." I will speak on this topic during AIC's... Read More →

Susanne Gänsicke-[PA]

Head of Antiquities Conservation, J. Paul Getty Museum

Susanne Gänsicke is the Senior Conservator of Antiquities at the Getty Villa in Malibu, starting mid-July. Since 1990, she was employed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, most recently as Conservator in Objects Conservation. She has worked on active excavations in Egypt and Sudan... Read More →

Barbara Adams Hebard

Conservator, Boston College Library

Barbara Adams Hebard, Conservator of the John J. Burns Library at Boston College, is a graduate of the North Bennet Street School bookbinding program. Ms. Hebard is a member of the Guild of Book Workers and the Ticknor Society. She is a Professional member of The American Institute... Read More →

Casey Mallinckrodt

Head Conservator, Denver Museum of Nature and Science

Casey Mallinckrodt received a MA in conservation at the UCLA/Getty Program in Conservation of Archaeological and Ethnographic Materials and previously received a MFA from Yale University. She has been a Kress Fellow in Object Conservation at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and worked... Read More →

Caryl McFarlane

Consultant, HBCU Alliance of Museums and Galleries

Kelly McHugh

Supervisory Collections Manager, Cultural Resources Center. The National Museum of the American Indian. Smithsonian Institution

Kelly McHugh recently became the Supervisory Collections Manager at the National Museum of the American Indian. Prior she served as an object conservator, when she began working for the museum in 1996 in New York, based at the museum’s former storage facility in the Bronx. There... Read More →

Erin Murphy

Assistant Conservator, The Field Museum

Erin is an Assistant Conservator at The Field Museum. There she is working on the redevelopment of the Native North American hall and joined the Field Museum’s staff in August 2018. She recently served as the Marshall Steel Senior Conservation Intern, Archaeological Collections... Read More →

Yoshiyuki "Yoshi" Nishio

Conservator and President, Nishio Conservation Studio

Yoshiyuki Nishio is President of the Nishio Conservation Studio, and one of the leading conservators of Asian scroll and screen paintings. His background combines traditional apprenticeship and academic training. Mr. Nishio was born in downtown Tokyo and began his art education... Read More →

Debbie Hess Norris-[Fellow]

Chair/Professor, Department of Art Conservation, University of Delaware

Debra Hess Norris is Chair of the Art Conservation Department at the University of Delaware, and Professor of Photograph Conservation. She graduated magna cum laude with an interdisciplinary BA degree in chemistry, art history, and studio art (1977) and MS in conservation (1980) from... Read More →

Sheila Payaqui

Conservator, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Ellen Pearlstein

Professor, UCLA

Ellen Pearlstein is a founding faculty member in the graduate UCLA/Getty Conservation Program, where she incorporates Indigenous instruction into the understanding and care of California basketry and featherwork. Her publications include edited volumes Conservation of Featherwork... Read More →

Landis Smith

Project Conservator, State Museums and Monuments of New Mexico

Landis Smith is Projects Conservator at the Museums of New Mexico Conservation Unit, working primarily with the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture. She is also Collaborative Conservation Programs Consultant at the Indian Arts Research Center at the School for Advanced Research, and... Read More →

Melissa Tedone-[PA]

Book & Library Conservator, Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library

Melissa Tedone is Book & Library Conservator at Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library. She holds a PhD in Slavic literary history from Yale University, and an MSIS with a Certificate of Advanced Study in the Conservation of Library and Archival Materials from UT Austin. In addition... Read More →

Lalena A. Vellanoweth

Conservator, Private Practice

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Wednesday May 30, 2018 8:30am - 4:15pm MDT
Texas Ballroom A Marriott Marquis Houston

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Specialty Tracks All Attendees
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Cost Free-$145

AIC's 46th Annual Meeting