January Meeting Summary — “Advocacy in Conservation: Just Showing Up”
Scott Nolley (Fine Art Conservation of Virginia) began his talk by addressing the idea of advocacy in its broadest forms. Though the word advocacy is …
February Meeting Summary – “I Gave Gold for Iron”: Nineteenth-Century Cast Iron Jewelry at the Harvard Art Museums
Diana Galante, Objects conservator at the National Museum of American History, presented her research on cast iron jewelry conducted at the Straus Center for Conservation …
January Meeting Summary – Preserving Maritime History
Presenter: Gary McGowan*, Principle Objects Conservator, Cultural Preservation & RestorationTitle: Preserving Maritime HistoryDate: January 8, 2015; Three Ring Meeting, Nautical RelatedSummarizer: Ed McManus The precepts …
December Meeting Summary—Gregg S. Horner, The FBI Art Crime Program: Criminal Investigations Conducted by the Washington Field Office
On December 4th, 2014, FBI Special Agent Gregg S. Horner talked about his work from 2006 to 2013 in the Washington Field Office of the …
January Meeting Summary- Most Secret: Treating Records from a WWII Shipwreck
Speaker: Lisa Hall IsbellTitle: Most Secret*: Treating Records from a WWII ShipwreckDate: January 8, 2015; Three Ring Meeting, Nautical RelatedSummarizer: Ali Sims At WCG’s Annual …
January Meeting Summary – “Smart Storage on the High Seas: The Examination and Treatment of a 19th Century Sea Chest”
Speaker: Stephanie HulmanTitle: “Smart Storage on the High Seas: The Examination and Treatment of a 19th Century Sea Chest”Date: Jan. 8, 2015; Three Ring Circus …
October meeting Summary- Alternatives to the Oddy Test
Lecture Summary by Austin Plann Curley Conservation Intern at the Folger Shakespeare Library Evaluating Storage Materials: Alternatives to the Oddy Test Eric Breiting spoke October …
December Meeting Summary: Intent to Deceive–Fakes and Forgeries in the Art World
Summarized by Leah Bright, Pre-program Intern at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Smithsonian Freer Gallery of Art Intent to Deceive: Fakes and Forgeries …
November Meeting Summary: Preserving the Nimrud Ivories in Iraq
Summarized by Natasha Trenear, Conservation Fellow, Anthropology Conservation Laboratory, Smithsonian Institution The Challenges of Preserving the Nimrud Ivories in Iraq Presented by Terry Drayman-Weisser, Director …
October Meeting Summary: The Restoration of the National Academy of Sciences
Speaker: Maria Bonet, Assistant Conservator at F.C. Vogt Co. Summarized by Jessica Ford, Winterthur/University of Delaware Graduate Fellow, Lunder Conservation Center, National Museum of American Art …
