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1. Tour
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3. Pre-Meeting Session
4. Pre-Meeting Symposium
5. General Session
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Imaging Technology
Material Questions
Material Transfers & Translations
Materiality: A Series of Questions
Natural History Collections
Opening Session
Problematic Materials
6. Specialty Session
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Archaeological Conservation
Architecture
Book and Paper
Collection Care
Electronic Media
Objects
Paintings
Photographic Materials
Research and Technical Studies
Sustainability
Textiles
Wooden Artifacts
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Tuesday
, May 29
Burning Bones Press
8:15am •
Hands-On Lithography for Conservators
FULL
Memorial Meeting Room
9:00am •
Fiber Identification and Analysis
FILLING
Menil Collection
8:15am •
Varnishing in the 21st Century
FULL
Meyerland Meeting Room
11:00am •
Department Head Luncheon and Tips Session
FULL
1:00pm •
Persistence and Change: Leadership Techniques for Both
FILLING
MFAH
1:00pm •
Museum of Fine Arts Houston Collections Storage Tour
FILLING
Montrose Meeting Room
8:30am •
Oddy Testing: Protocols and Practicalities
FULL
Tanglewood Meeting Room
9:00am •
Introduction to Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI)
FULL
Texas Ballroom A
8:30am •
(Pre-session Symposium) The Current Use of Leather in Book Conservation
LIMITED
The Printing Museum
5:15pm •
Printing Museum Tour
Tour Departure Point - Outside of Texas T Café
2:30pm •
Bayou Bend Tour
LIMITED
3:30pm •
Downtown Deco and Downtown East Walking Tour
LIMITED
5:45pm •
Houston History Boat Cruise
FULL
University of Houston
1:00pm •
University of Houston Public Art Walking Tour
LIMITED
Wednesday
, May 30
Biggio’s Sports Bar (Marriott Marquis)
8:00pm •
UK and Overseas Graduate Programs in Conservation Reunion
9:00pm •
West Dean College Reunion
Clear Lake A Meeting Room
5:30pm •
Publications Committee Meeting
Clear Lake B Meeting Room
9:00am •
Respirator Fit Test
LIMITED
Grotto Downtown
7:30pm •
Emerging Conservation Professionals Network (ECPN) Happy Hour
Houston Natural Science Museum
11:45am •
Houston Natural Science Museum - Offsite Collection Storage and Museum Tour
FULL
Kingwood Meeting Room
9:00am •
Preparation and Use of Paraloid B-72 Adhesive
FILLING
Menil Collection
12:30pm •
The Ultimate Menil Campus Tour
FILLING
Meyerland Meeting Room
3:00pm •
Talking Grants – Hear from IMLS Grant Reviewers
Montrose Meeting Room
9:00am •
GC Lasers Demo
1:30pm •
Scholarly Writing: From Abstract to Publication
Pappadeaux Seafood
7:30pm •
AIC Dinner at Pappadeaux Seafood
LIMITED
Rice University
1:30pm •
Installation and Use of Automated Thread Count Software
LIMITED
River Oaks Meeting Room
9:00am •
Packing, Crating, and Shipping Workshop
FILLING
Rosenberg Library
9:00am •
From Response to Recovery; from Recovery to Response – Hurricane Lessons Learned in Galveston
LIMITED
Space Center Houston
8:30am •
Space Center Houston - VIP Tour
FILLING
Tanglewood Meeting Room
1:00pm •
Scratch Removal and Polishing Treatment for High-Gloss Plastic Surfaces
FULL
TBA
9:00am •
Bayou Bike Tour
FULL
2:00pm •
Rice University and Broadacres Walking Tour
Texas A&M University Libraries
7:00am •
Function Meets Aesthetic: Rebacking techniques for leather books
FULL
10:30am •
Texas A&M Libraries New Conservation Lab Tour
FULL
Texas Ballroom A
8:30am •
(Pre-session Symposium) Whose Cultural Heritage? Whose Conservation Strategy?
FILLING
Texas Ballroom C
4:30pm •
Houston 2018: Storytelling as Preservation
Texas Ballrooms E-H (Exhibit Hall)
6:00pm •
Early Exhibit Hall Access and Light Reception
Tour Departure Point - Outside of Texas T Café
10:00am •
Bayou Bend and Rienzi
FILLING
7:15pm •
Bat Colony by Boat Tour
FULL
Westchase Meeting Room
5:30pm •
NHR Business Meeting
Thursday
, May 31
Briargrove Meeting Room
2:00pm •
(Electronic Media) Rewind, Pause, Playback: Addressing a Media Conservation Backlog at the Denver Art Museum
2:30pm •
(Electronic Media) Archiving Computer-based Artworks
3:00pm •
(Electronic Media) Conservation Surveys for Time-based Media Art Collections
4:00pm •
(Electronic Media) Sounds Challenging: Documenting the Identity and Iterations of Ragnar Kjartansson's "The Visitors"
4:30pm •
(Electronic Media) VR tools as spatial documentation
5:00pm •
(Electronic Media) Time-based Media Art Conservation Education Program at NYU: Concept and Perspectives
Heritage Society
5:45pm •
Pre-Objects and Architecture Reception Tour of the Heritage Society
7:00pm •
Objects and Architecture Reception
Houston Natural Science Museum
6:30pm •
Book and Paper Group Reception
Hunters Creek Meeting Room
2:00pm •
(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
2:30pm •
(Photographic Materials) Evaluation of Hydrolytic Accelerated Aging Protocols on Cellulose Acetate
3:00pm •
(Photographic Materials) Platinum and Palladium Photographs - Rediscoveries
4:00pm •
(Photographic Materials) Finding a Balance: Conservation of the Dolley Madison Cased Image from the Greensboro History Museum
4:30pm •
(Photographic Materials) Investigation of Portrait with Applied Oil Color
5:00pm •
(Photographic Materials) How to Receive and Organize a Collection of 1 Million Photographs at Once? Material and Metadata Discussions
Kingwood Meeting Room
2:00pm •
(Wooden Artifacts) Inside the Frames of Stanford White: A Technical Study
2:30pm •
(Wooden Artifacts) A case study of the examination and conservation treatment of a mid-18th c. American made chair, and the processes of recreating missing carved elements using traditional methods.
3:00pm •
(Wooden Artifacts) Thomas Sheraton's "Red Oil"
Live Oak Friends Meeting House
6:30pm •
Electronic Media Group Networking Reception
Menil Collection
7:00pm •
Paintings Group Reception
Meyerland Meeting Room
2:00pm •
(Collection Care) Stash Flash V – Storage Tips Session
4:00pm •
(Collection Care) Making the Most of What You Have: Digital Documentation Solutions Utilizing Existing Software
4:30pm •
(Collection Care) How to Label Everything – A Review of Current Best Practices in Natural History Labelling
5:00pm •
(Collection Care) Vibration testing and wandering of objects in a natural history collection
MKT Bar
9:00pm •
UPenn Night Cap
Montrose Meeting Room
12:30pm •
(Private Practice) Getting Results: Tips and Case Study Session for Technical Analysis Resources (Part I)
LIMITED
Pool Deck - Marriott Marquis Houston
9:00pm •
ANAGPIC Graduate Programs Reunions
Project Row Houses
6:30pm •
RATS/TSG/WAG Reception
River Oaks Meeting Room
2:00pm •
(Research and Technical Studies + Textiles) Fiber and Yarn Cross-section Sample Preparation Methods for Effective Plant Fiber Material Characterization and Identification
2:30pm •
(Research and Technical Studies + Textiles) Untangling Indian Hemp: Understanding and Identifying Common Plant Fibers Used by Native Americans in the Woodlands Region
3:00pm •
(Research and Technical Studies + Textiles) The Norwich textile reference database, a collections care project
4:00pm •
(Research and Technical Studies + Textiles) A sizable sooty soiled surface: Analyzing and evaluating methods for surface cleaning a large painted muslin
4:30pm •
(Textiles) Practical Applications of Conservation and Restoration Strategies for Historical Clothing in Uncontrolled Historical Houses
5:00pm •
(Research and Technical Studies + Textiles) Roundtable Discussion
Tanglewood Meeting Room
1:15pm •
Emerging Conservation Professionals Network (ECPN) Informational Meeting
Texas Ballroom A
2:00pm •
(Paintings) Surprise Encounters with Mummy Portraits at the Art Institute of Chicago
2:30pm •
(Paintings) A Convenient Method: Canvas Painting in 16th Century Florence
3:00pm •
(Paintings) Material Insights and Challenges in the Treatment of Maarten de Vos’ "Portrait of a Woman"
4:00pm •
(Paintings) Unusual activities between image and panel: a sixteenth-century painting of St. Catherine in the Yale University Art Gallery
4:30pm •
(Paintings) Research and Conservation of Peter Paul Rubens, The Raising of the Cross, oil on paper, 1638
5:00pm •
(Paintings) Evolon: Its Use from a Scientific and Practical Conservation Perspective
Texas Ballroom B
2:00pm •
(Objects) Manipulating Materials: Preparing and Using Paraloid B-72 Adhesive Mixtures
2:30pm •
(Objects) Visible effects of adhesive and pressure on color in kingfisher feathers
3:00pm •
(Objects) Manganese Stain Reduction on an Ancient Greek Terracotta Vase
4:00pm •
(Objects) Loss Compensation on Ceramics using Photogrammetry, Digital Modeling and 3D Printing
4:30pm •
(Objects) The Use of 3D Printing for Casting Proportional Replicas Used in the Treatment of Articulated Skeletons
5:00pm •
(Objects) Conditioning Basketry Elements with Water and Ethanol: An Investigation into the Effects of Standard Conservation Methods
Texas Ballroom C
2:00pm •
(Architecture + Archaeological Conservation) Digging Deep: The Importance of Collaborations between Architectural Conservators and Archeologists
2:30pm •
(Architecture + Archaeological Conservation) Loves Me like a Rock: Care and Preservation of Ancient Graffiti in a Rock-Cut Kushite Temple
3:00pm •
(Architecture + Archaeological Conservation) A Collaborative Model for Rock Art Conservation in the Algerian Desert
4:00pm •
(Architecture + Archaeological Conservation) Evaluation of Organosilicon Materials for Conservation of Ancient Grey Bricks
4:30pm •
(Architecture + Archaeological Conservation) Preventive conservation training in the Moche Valley, Peru
5:00pm •
(Architecture + Archaeological Conservation) Keeping it Vertical: Use of GIS to create a streamlined survey and work order system for a historic landscape
Texas Ballroom D
2:00pm •
(Book and Paper) Washi: Understanding Japanese paper as a material of culture and conservation
2:30pm •
(Book and Paper) Optical Clearing of Repair Tissues for the Treatment of Translucent Papers
3:00pm •
(Book and Paper) Cocktails and mixers: Ethanol-modified treatments for iron-gall ink.
4:00pm •
(Book and Paper) Chancery Master Exhibits - piecing it back together
4:30pm •
(Book and Paper) Peregrinations of an 18th-Century Armenian Prayer Scroll
5:00pm •
(Book and Paper) Looking Back and Taking Stock – A Journey through Past Projects
Texas Ballrooms A-D
8:20am •
Opening General Session - Welcome and Awards
9:00am •
Materiality and Immateriality in Conserving Contemporary Art
9:30am •
Practicing what we preach: An argument for the recognition and preservation of a material culture of conservation
11:00am •
Preserving Innovation: Considering the Treatment and Materiality of 3D Printed Objects in Museum Collections
11:30am •
The Physical Nature of Digital & What it Means for Conservation
12:00pm •
Opening General Session Discussion Session
Texas Ballrooms E-H (Exhibit Hall)
10:00am •
Break in the Exhibit Hall
3:30pm •
Break in the Exhibit Hall
Westchase Meeting Room
5:30pm •
(Private Practice) Conservators in Private Practice Group Business Meeting
Friday
, June 1
Briargrove Meeting Room
7:30am •
(Electronic Media) Electronic Media Group Reception
9:00am •
(Electronic Media) Collaboration in the Aesthetic Zone: Trisha Brown and Robert Rauschenberg
9:30am •
(Electronic Media) Lighting Round - Emulating Horizons (2008) by Geert Mul: the challenges of intensive graphics rendering
9:45am •
(Electronic Media) Lighting Round - Preserving Stephan von Huene’s electronic artworks by means of bit-stream documentation
10:30am •
(Electronic Media) Introducing ‘Code Resituation’: Applying the Concept of Minimal Intervention to the Conservation Treatment of Software-based Art
11:00am •
(Electronic Media) Revealing Hidden Processes: Instrumentation and Reverse Engineering in the Conservation of Software-based Art
11:30am •
(Electronic Media) Establishing Preservation Practices for Net Art and App-Based Works
Hunters Creek Meeting Room
8:00am •
(Photographic Materials) Photographic Materials Group Business Meeting
9:00am •
(Photographic Materials) Revealing History with Moisture and Megabytes: Curled Panorama Prints from WWI and WWII
9:30am •
(Photographic Materials) From Here On and Beyond: Researching Objects, History and Collection at The Museum of Modern Art
10:30am •
(Photographic Materials) Color Records: Wood’s Diffraction Process of Color Photography
11:00am •
(Photographic Materials) The Chemistry of Digital Fine Art Paper Yellowing: A Comparative Case Study of Moab Entrada Rag Natural 300gsm and Harman Inkjet Glossy Art Fibre Warmtone by Hahnemühle
11:30am •
Photographic Materials Conservation Tips
2:00pm •
(Long-Form Concurrent Session) Arts Recovery After Hurricane Harvey
2:30pm •
(Long-Form Concurrent Session) Materiality: A Series of Questions
4:00pm •
(Long-Form Concurrent Session) Lessons from Irma and Harvey: Preparation and Response in the 2017 Hurricane Season
Kingwood Meeting Room
8:30am •
(Research and Technical Studies + Wooden Artifacts) All that Glitters: Visualizing and Characterizing Gold Leaf through Macro-XRF Scanning
9:00am •
(Research and Technical Studies + Wooden Artifacts) A contribution toward the identification of wood by heart-cut pyrolysis gas chromatography mass spectrometry.
9:30am •
(Research and Technical Studies + Wooden Artifacts) Interdisciplinary and Multi-Technique Study of Previous Conservation, Bending Media, and Pigments of a Painted Polychrome Coffin from the Late Period
10:30am •
(Research and Technical Studies + Wooden Artifacts) Another Look at Conserving a Japanned High Chest
11:00am •
(Research and Technical Studies + Wooden Artifacts) Bringing back color: Retouching faded furniture with colored light
12:00pm •
(Wooden Artifacts) Wooden Artifacts Group Business Meeting
Memorial Meeting Room
12:00pm •
Discolored - Now What - Socratic Dialog with Lunch
LIMITED
Meyerland Meeting Room
8:30am •
(Collection Care) Materials Selection for Storage, Exhibit, & Transport: A Moderated Panel Discussion
10:30am •
(Collection Care) Towards understanding the basis of Oddy test failures via quantitative volatile organics and other analytical analyses
11:00am •
(Collection Care) Evaluating the Potential of A-D Strips for Assessing the Safety of Materials for Museum Objects
11:30am •
(Collection Care) Collaborative Project Between Museums - The Case Study of The National Museum of Taiwan Literature and Zhong Lihe Memorial Institute
MFAH
5:45pm •
All-Attendee Reception at the MFAH - Pre Gallery Viewing
7:30pm •
All-Attendee Reception at the MFAH
Montrose Meeting Room
12:00pm •
(Private Practice) The Science of Things: Theory and Practice for Obtaining Independent Technical Results (Part II)
LIMITED
River Oaks Meeting Room
7:30am •
(Textiles) Textiles Specialty Group Business Meeting
8:30am •
(Textiles) A Lot of Nitpicking; Documentation of Tom Welter’s painted silk battle flag encapsulation method and materials.
9:00am •
(Textiles) The Mortlake Horses: A Collaborative Approach to the Conservation of Seventeenth-Century British Tapestries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
9:30am •
(Textiles) Confronting Challenges and Considering Consensus in the Conservation of Eighteenth-Century Fashion
10:30am •
(Textiles) The Use Of Paper-Based Materials For The Treatment Of Plant Fiber
11:00am •
(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 original Mixtec codex.
2:00pm •
(Natural History Collections) Moose on the Move: Relocation and Conservation of the Bell Museum’s Diorama Murals
2:30pm •
(Natural History Collections) Preserving Penn’s Woods: The restoration of the Mammal Hall dioramas at the State Museum of Pennsylvania
3:00pm •
(Natural History Collections) Ongoing Investigations into the Use of Metal-Complex Solvent Dyes for Recoloring Faded Hair and Fur
4:00pm •
(Natural History Collections) Touring Nature’s Treasures:The Conservation Challenges of Touring and Displaying Natural History Specimens
4:30pm •
(Natural History Collections) Smudges, snakeskins, and pins, oh my!
5:00pm •
(Natural History Collections) Eggstraordinary: The conservation and mounting of historically significant great auk eggs
Tanglewood Meeting Room
1:00pm •
Archaeological Discussion Group (ADG) Business Meeting
TBA
3:00pm •
Facilitated Discussion
Texas Ballroom (Foyer outside Ballrooms - Poster Session)
3:30pm •
31. (Research and Technical Studies) Degradation makers of cellulose acetate during aging
3:30pm •
14. (Research and Technical Studies) Gamma Radiation of Cultural Heritage in Disaster Response
3:30pm •
45. (Archaeological Conservation) The two layers technique for supporting and assembling severely damaged composed sandals of King Tutankhamun
3:30pm •
37. (Paintings) Archiving for the Museums Using the Ultra-High Resolution Scanning System
3:30pm •
29. (Objects) On A Roll: A New Artifact Support Approach during the Treatment of Cannons
3:30pm •
16. (Textiles) Using SEM to Examine Metal Threads from the King's Bed (1672) at Knole House
3:30pm •
40. (Book and Paper) Extraction and Analysis of DNA from Renaissance-Style Prepared Paper
3:30pm •
20. (Book and Paper) An In Depth Treatment Study of Humidification and Flattening in Paper Conservation
3:30pm •
15. (Textiles) Frass-tacular!: Textile Conservation Techniques Adapted to the Stabilization of Moth-Damaged Aircraft Fabric
3:30pm •
44. (Book and Paper) Bold Will Hold: Investigating Artist Materials of Classic American Tattoo Flash
3:30pm •
50. (Book and Paper) Application of the Sewn Boards Binding for Field Books and Pocket Journals
3:30pm •
43. (Research and Technical Studies) Laying with Tiffany: Conservation of the Swan Memorial Glass Mosaic at Woodlawn Cemetery
3:30pm •
27. (Research and Technical Studies) The Permeation of Vapors through Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) films
3:30pm •
51. (Collection Care) An inexpensive and visually appealing solution to environmentally based distortions in limp vellum bindings
3:30pm •
01. (Research and Technical Studies) An American Icon in Plastic: The Technical Analysis, Study, & Treatment of a Early Edition 1959 Barbie
3:30pm •
35. (Research and Technical Studies) Optimizing Paint Cross-Section Preparation for Modern and Contemporary Art: A Case Study
3:30pm •
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 Libraries
3:30pm •
41. (Book and Paper) Rising from the ashes : The conservation and treatment of paper support objects with large loss and burn
3:30pm •
25. (Collection Care) The conservation of textile linings and seal cords- with a little help from textile and paintings conservation
3:30pm •
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
3:30pm •
18. (Objects) The Use and Effect of Pickering Particle Emulsions and Cyclomethicone Cleaning Systems in the Treatment of Hair in Water-Sensitive Composite Objects
3:30pm •
42. (Architecture) Cooperation with different backgrounds for monument protection. How deep can we interfere with the monument?
3:30pm •
33. (Archaeological Conservation) The Wild West Comes to Southern Maryland: The conservation of three solder dot cans from Deadwood, South Dakota
3:30pm •
07. (Collection Care) Cadmium Plating in Scientific and Technological Collections
3:30pm •
12. (Textiles) A preliminary evaluation of lining and surface patching techniques for doped aircraft fabric
3:30pm •
38. (Book and Paper) You’re Printing What? Where? The material stability and safety of 3D printing thermoplastic polymers for fused filament fabrication.
3:30pm •
22. (Collection Care) Nothing is Ever Simple: A Case Study in Flexible Project Management for Archives Conservation
3:30pm •
04. (Wooden Artifacts) Investigating the Renaissance Marriage Chest: A Study of the Methods and Materials Used in the Construction of Two Florentine Cassoni from the Workshop of Paolo Uccello
3:30pm •
11. (Archaeological Conservation) Conservation in a Changing Climate: Examining the Effects of Ocean Acidification on Submerged Wooden Artifacts
3:30pm •
08. (Collection Care) Mercuric Chloride Reduction on Feathers
3:30pm •
24. (Book and Paper) Pineapple Paper - A New Material from Taiwan for Paper Conservation
3:30pm •
06. (Book and Paper) Ain’t No Mountain High Enough: Treatment of a board game with iron corrosion
3:30pm •
05. (Objects) Preserving the Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Leatherface
3:30pm •
21. (Book and Paper) Mass Deacidification Carrier Fluid Selection to Protect Media
3:30pm •
19. (Objects) Cosmetics as artifacts: the analysis and conservation of a 1930s theatrical makeup kit
3:30pm •
02. (Objects) Electroplated silver during a re-lacquering campaign at Winterthur: treatment and analytical insights
3:30pm •
17. (Architecture) Challenges in Documenting Historic Finishes During Construction at the Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, MD
3:30pm •
10. (Book and Paper) (Un)Finished Thoughts: Approaches to Conserving Transitory States in the Working Documents of Gwendolyn Brooks
3:30pm •
03. (Objects) THEOPHILUS ON THE HARDENING OF STEEL FILES
3:30pm •
13. (Research and Technical Studies) Sticking with it: Following up on HSC’s effort to develop a user-driven adhesives database
3:30pm •
39. (Archaeological Conservation) Stone-panelled red lacquer wooden table excavated from King Lu’s tomb of Ming Dynasty and its lacquer technique study
3:30pm •
36. (Collection Care) Fire Hazard of Traditional Potteries with Polyester Overlay Plywood
3:30pm •
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
3:30pm •
48. (Architecture) Steam Heat: Use of high heat/ low pressure cleaning system on 19th century funerary monuments at Green-Wood Cemetery
3:30pm •
Poster Q + A with Authors
3:30pm •
51. (Natural History) Putting the Monkey Back in the Classroom: the Conservation and Restoration of a Mounted Guenon Monkey
3:30pm •
34. (Research and Technical Studies) Integrated Approaches to the Conservation of Multi-Component Systems - A Case Study with Dog Tags
3:30pm •
28. (Architecture) Art or Awful: The Preservation and Conservation of Graffiti
3:30pm •
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 A
7:30am •
(Paintings) Paintings Specialty Group Business Meeting
8:30am •
(Paintings) The Blues of Jan de Bray's Judith and Holofernes: the technical study of two blue pigments and its impact on treatment
9:00am •
(Paintings) Gabriel Revel’s "Portrait of a Sculptor": a painting and treatment in transition.
9:30am •
(Paintings) Old World, New World: Painting Practices in the Reformed 1686 Painter’s Guild of Mexico City
10:30am •
(Paintings) Material Matters Research for Rare Wall Murals revealed at the Historic Sinclair Inn Museum
11:00am •
(Paintings) An Obscured Beauty: analysis and treatment of "Dancing Girl" by Muhammad Baqir
11:30am •
(Paintings) Symbol, Record, Object: Treating the many facets of two Qajar Iran imperial portraits
2:00pm •
(Material Questions) The Colors of Desire: Examination of Colorants in the Beauties of the Yoshiwara
2:30pm •
(Material Questions) Explosive Beauty: Material Studies of Cai Guo-Qiang
3:00pm •
(Material Questions) Martin Ramirez’s Creative Compulsions: The Composition, Construction and Conservation of His Monumental Collaged Drawings
4:00pm •
(Material Questions) Connecting the dots: visitor interaction in contemporary art collections
4:30pm •
(Material Questions) An Enlightened Perspective: Balancing Artist Intent with Conservation Concerns
5:00pm •
(Material Questions) Between subtle and silent: the conservation of Max Neuhaus' Sound Figure at the Menil Collection
Texas Ballroom B
7:30am •
(Objects) Objects Specialty Group Business Meeting with a Light Breakfast
8:30am •
(Objects + Archaeological Conservation) Facial Reconstruction of Ancient Egyptian Mummies: Experiences from the Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum
9:00am •
(Objects + Archaeological Conservation) Gold Working at Ur: A Collaborative Project to Better Understand Ancient Gold Smithing
9:30am •
(Objects + Archaeological Conservation) The Tell-Tale Conservation of Two 2,000 Year Old Leather Water-Skins
10:30am •
(Objects + Archaeological Conservation) Hot Tub Time Machine: A Heated Water System for Artifact Disassembly and Treatment
11:00am •
(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
11:30am •
(Objects + Archaeological Conservation) Measuring the burial microenvironment on an archaeological site as an aid to the conservation management of artifacts in the museum
2:00pm •
(Material Transfers & Translations) Tauba Auerbach’s Altar/Engine: a case study in reconceptualizing materiality
2:30pm •
(Material Transfers & Translations) Whitney Replication Committee: Transparency in the Age of Reproduction
3:30pm •
(Material Transfers & Translations) Flaming Pearls and Flying Phoenixes: Materiality, Research, and Stewardship of Liao Dynasty Metalwork
4:00pm •
(Material Transfers & Translations) Collecting Collections: negotiating the complexities of material value at the National Park Service
4:30pm •
Facilitated Discussion
Texas Ballroom C
8:30am •
(Architecture) The development of modern organic materials, 1845-1930
9:00am •
(Architecture) Life after Lead Paint for Historic Houses
9:30am •
(Architecture) Can’t Touch This! The Treatment of Original Distemper Painted Plaster Walls
10:30am •
(Architecture) Moving a Monument: The Relocation of Extending Arms of Christ at Houston Methodist Hospital
11:00am •
(Architecture) Transportation, Installation, and Conservation of the 20th c. fresco 'Haitian Massacre, 1937': Challenges, solutions, and contributions
11:30am •
(Architecture) Analyzing Spanish colonial pigment utilizing sophisticated technology: The excitement and the obstacle in the discoveries
2:00pm •
(Problematic Materials) Modern Materials: Not Our Fault, But Our Problem. Reflections on the Development of Conservation Treatments in Private Practice
2:30pm •
(Problematic Materials) Managing Expectations in Scrapbook Conservation Approaches
3:00pm •
(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
4:00pm •
(Problematic Materials) Investigation of Cellulose Nitrate Motion Picture Film Chemical Decomposition & Associated Fire Risk
4:30pm •
(Problematic Materials) The Element of Surprise: contending with historic lead fills on an outdoor bronze Mercury
5:00pm •
(Problematic Materials) The Day Day-Glo loses its Glo(w): An Interdisciplinary Approach in Conserving Artworks Containing Daylight Fluorescent Paints
Texas Ballroom D
7:30am •
(Book and Paper) Book and Paper Group Business Meeting
8:30am •
(Book and Paper) Small but bulky: a study on the rebinding of a portable 15th century book of hours
9:00am •
(Book and Paper) Branded by Fire: Treatment of los Primeros Libros
9:30am •
(Book and Paper) The unintended effects of some book treatments on original or early binding structures and materials
10:30am •
(Book and Paper) Transparent Liquid Colors: "Not Just For Ornament"
11:00am •
(Book and Paper) John Singer Sargent: New insights into his watercolor materials and techniques
11:30am •
(Book and Paper) Multi Spectral Imaging and the Digitization of the Dead Sea Scrolls
12:00pm •
(Book and Paper) 2018 Book and Paper Wiki Discussion Session
2:00pm •
(Imaging Technology) High-Resolution Imaging as a new Research Tool in the Rijksmuseum
2:30pm •
(Imaging Technology) A Study of Two Picasso Blue Period paintings in the collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario, La Miséreuse accroupie (1902) and La Soupe (1903)
3:00pm •
(Imaging Technology) Optimizing Imaging Modalities to Improve Understanding Materials
4:00pm •
(Imaging Technology) A New Workflow for Color and Tone Calibrated Multispectral Imaging
4:30pm •
(Imaging Technology) Integrating Multispectral Imaging, Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI), and Photogrammetry for Archaeological Objects
5:00pm •
(Imaging Technology) Using Photogrammetry to Understand the Mechanical Behavior of Bound Volumes
Texas Ballrooms E-H (Exhibit Hall)
10:00am •
Break in the Exhibit Hall
3:30pm •
Break in the Exhibit Hall
Texas Foyer
1:00pm •
Collection Care Network Idea Fair
Westchase Meeting Room
12:00pm •
JAIC Editorial Board Meeting
Saturday
, June 2
Briargrove Meeting Room
10:00am •
(Electronic Media) Looking Forwards and Backwards: Practical Approaches to the Stewardship of Time-Based Media Art
10:00am •
(Electronic Media) Starting at the Beginning Panel from 10 am to Noon
10:30am •
(Electronic Media) A steep learning curve: developments in the field of time-based art conservation in Australia
11:00am •
(Electronic Media) The preservation and conservation of digital technology heritage - A case study of new media art collection of National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts
11:30am •
(Electronic Media) What Happened When? Creating Retroactive Iteration Reports for Time-based Media Artworks
11:30am •
(Electronic Media) Unsustainable digital collections
12:00pm •
(Electronic Media) Getting It On Record: Stabilization, Enhanced Imaging, and Documentation of Archival Instantaneous Audio Discs
Hunters Creek Meeting Room
10:00am •
Poster Lightning Round
2:00pm •
(Sustainability) Access to Shared Knowledge: Developing a Sustainable Workflow for Archiving Collaborative Engagement Documentation at NMAI’s Conservation Department
2:30pm •
(Sustainability) A collaborative web platform for designing green museum storages
3:00pm •
(Sustainability) Digital Collections Storage: Surveying The Landscape
3:30pm •
(Sustainability) Change in Collection Management Strategy with Climate Change Phenomenon in Thar Desert
Kingwood Meeting Room
10:00am •
(Wooden Artifacts) The interdisciplinary approach in the conservation of wooden objects of the Museu do Ipiranga
10:30am •
(Wooden Artifacts) Reproducing decorative furniture inlay by digital means.
11:00am •
(Wooden Artifacts) Tilia and Tilt-A-Jet: abrasive jet-machining towards the treatment and re-mounting of a Grinling Gibbons overmantel
11:30am •
(Wooden Artifacts) An Experimental and Practical Study of Some Gap-Fillers for wood and wooden antiquities
Meyerland Meeting Room
10:00am •
(Research and Technical Studies) The human endeavour: when source communities, conservators and scientists collaborate
10:30am •
(Research and Technical Studies) Big Things Come in Small Packages: The Materials Analysis Lab at Colonial Williamsburg and its Impact Throughout the Foundation
11:00am •
(Research and Technical Studies) Investigating Conservation Materials for Painted PMMA: Comparing Aging Environment Impact with Nano Thermal Analysis
11:30am •
(Research and Technical Studies) The use of nano-indentation to mechanically characterize embedded artists’ materials
12:00pm •
(Research and Technical Studies) Research and Technical Studies Group Business Meeting
2:00pm •
(Research and Technical Studies) A Collaborative Study of Sari Dienes’ Plaster Works
2:30pm •
(Research and Technical Studies) Colors of Jazz: Identification of the colorants in Henri Matisse gouaches using a noninvasive approach
3:00pm •
(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
3:30pm •
(Research and Technical Studies) Differential stability of cadmium yellow paints in Picasso’s ‘Femme’
4:00pm •
(Research and Technical Studies) Constructivism Strands and Concrete Art in Brazil – the Materiality of Form
River Oaks Meeting Room
10:00am •
(Textiles) Application of Multispectral Imaging in the Practice of Textile Conservation: Documentation, Investigation, and Communication
10:30am •
(Textiles) Pointing in the Right Direction: Identifying Technological Features to Orient Navajo Textiles
11:00am •
(Textiles) Taking the strain: Strain monitoring to inform tapestry conservation and display
11:30am •
(Textiles) A bridge between Science and Archaeology in studying Tutankhamun's Hassock
2:00pm •
(Textiles + Wooden Artifacts) Sofa, So Good...Conservation of a Mid-19th Century Children's Sofa
2:30pm •
(Textiles + Wooden Artifacts) “A New Approach to an Old Problem: Comfort and Minimally Intrusive Upholstery”
3:00pm •
(Textiles) Let there be light? An investigation into light-induced changes of the early synthetic aniline dye magenta under indoor lighting conditions
3:30pm •
(Textiles) Ambient analysis of historic textiles by DART-MS
4:00pm •
Textile Conservation Tips Session
Texas Ballroom A
10:00am •
(Paintings) Deciphering intention from ageing: the use of archival material in the study and treatment of Winifred Dysart by George Fuller
10:30am •
(Paintings) Back to Blakelock: Casting new light on historic technical studies of paintings by Ralph Albert Blakelock
11:00am •
(Paintings) An American in Amsterdam – The relevance of the Louis Pomerantz Papers for the conservation history of the paintings collection at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam
11:30am •
(Paintings) Paintings Conservation Tips Session
2:00pm •
(Paintings) The use of modern paints by the concrete artist Ivan Serpa in artworks of the early 1950’s
2:30pm •
(Paintings) American Abstract Expressionist painter, Sam Francis (1923-1994): Techniques and materials inform conservation treatment in the 21st century.
3:00pm •
(Paintings) Split Infinity, Herbert Aach - The Integrated Inpainting Method for Fluorescent Paint Layers
3:30pm •
(Paintings) Oxidized finger prints on Rudolf Stingel's golden, highly reflective ‘Carpet Paintings’
4:00pm •
(Paintings) Vibration-Induced Mechanical Damage in the Canvas Paintings of Georgia O’Keeffe as a result of Road and Air Transport
Texas Ballroom B
10:00am •
(Objects) Keeping them Ruby: The Preservation of Dorothy's Ruby Slippers
10:30am •
(Objects) Eva Hesse Addendum: Exploring Materiality and Emerging Technologies
11:00am •
(Objects) Conserving Alchemy: Bonded Bronze and the Art of Michael Richards
11:30am •
(Objects) Preparing the Apollo 11 Columbia for Its National Tour
2:00pm •
(Objects) Ghost Lives On: The treatment of Rachel Whiteread's monumental plaster sculpture
2:30pm •
(Objects) ‘Once in a Whale': The Conservation Treatment of Historic Cetacea at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History
3:00pm •
(Objects) New ways of looking at historic ship models: a comparative technical study of a pair of Napier & Sons ship models in the Rijksmuseum collection
3:30pm •
(Objects) “Ivory, bone and hide: Material identification of a 19th c. Greenland Inuit dog sledge collected by Admiral Peary”
4:00pm •
(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 C
10:00am •
(Architecture) Ground-truthing Adobe Ruins:Assessing Vulnerability of Earthen Architecture in a Changing Climate
10:30am •
(Architecture) Laser Ablation for the Removal of Biofilm at the Thomas Jefferson Memorial: a Test Case and Critical Evaluation
11:00am •
(Architecture) Biofilms and White Marble Monuments: Recent Work
11:30am •
(Architecture) Classification of Early Building Campaigns Using Petrographic Examination of the Historic Masonry Found at the Josiah Benner Farm, Gettysburg, PA
12:00pm •
(Architecture) Architectural Specialty Group Business Meeting
2:00pm •
(Architecture) Contour Scaling in Bluestone: An Investigation of Potential Causes Through Microscopy
2:30pm •
(Architecture) Electro-migrating process with silicone quaternary ammonium salt for protecting historic reinforced concrete buildings
3:00pm •
(Architecture) Alkoxysilane Sol-Gel Consolidants for Calcareous Stones
3:30pm •
(Architecture) From Wreckage to Relics: Conserving and Exhibiting Fragments from Frank Lloyd Wright’s Midway Gardens
4:00pm •
(Architecture) From Blocks to tomb-chapels: Documentation and Reconstruction of 246 stone blocks for display in the Grand Egyptian museum
Texas Ballroom D
10:00am •
(Book and Paper) Stone Paper: Examination of Géricault’s Lion Devouring a Horse Lithographic Printing Matrix
10:30am •
(Book and Paper) Édouard Manet’s Pastels on Canvas Supports
11:00am •
(Book and Paper) Think Outside of the Box: Displaying Paper Objects Without Using Classic Method
11:30am •
(Book and Paper) Screenprint on Plastic (Some assembly required). A Case Study of Joe Tilson's "The Software Chart" 1968
2:00pm •
(Book and Paper) Improved methods of authentication and the resulting shifts in decision-making in parchment conservation
2:30pm •
(Book and Paper) LCCDG: Matters at Hand: The evolution of staffing and prioritization in library conservation labs
Texas Ballroom E
12:00pm •
Book and Paper Tips Lunch
LIMITED
2:00pm •
(Book and Paper + Electronic Media) Caring for Electrophotographic Art: A Case Study of the Pati Hill Archives at Arcadia University
2:30pm •
(Book and Paper + Electronic Media) Preserving the Protest: Collection and Care of Social Movement Archives [Archives Conservation Discussion Group]
Texas Ballrooms E-H (Exhibit Hall)
7:45am •
AIC Member Business Meeting
Texas Ballrooms F-H
12:00pm •
Objects Tips Lunch
LIMITED
4:30pm •
A Failure Shared is Not a Failure: Learning from Our Mistakes
Tour Departure Point - Outside of Texas T Café
6:15pm •
Houston History and Bayou Bat Tour
Sunday
, June 3
The Printing Museum
9:00am •
Angels Project
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