SPEAKERS
Heba Saad
Education/Qualifications 2019 Ph.D. Student –Faculty of Archaeology-Cairo University. 2018 Master Degree In textile entitled "An experimental study to evaluate using Nano consolidation compounds in Treatment and conservation of dyed Archaeological And historical textiles with Application on one of the Selected objects" From Conservation Department, Faculty Of Archaeology, Fayoum University, Egypt. 2006 Graduated from Conservation Department, Faculty of Archaeology, Fayoum University, Egypt. Employment to Date/Work Experience 2019-present Employment at Egyptian Textile Museum. Post: Conservator. 2012-2019 Employment at Islamic and Coptic Antiquities Sector, Central and western Delta. Post: Conservator. 2011-2012 Employment at Mohamed Ali Castle in Cairo. Post: Conservator.
Cecilia Salgado
She has a degree in Restoration from the National School of Conservation, Restoration and Museography (ENCRYM), Mexico with a specialty in Conservation of Photographs and more than 24 years of experience in this type of materials. She has worked as Chief Conservator for the Manuel Toussaint Photographic Archive of the Institute of Aesthetic Research (IIE, UNAM); with the photographic collection of the Frida Kahlo-Casa Azul Museum, Mexico City; at the Figueroa Aznar & Gustavo de Reparaz Archives (Lima, Peru); and as Director, for the Centro de la Imagen Historical Archive (Lima, Peru). She has taught at the postgraduate program of Conservation and Restoration of Photographs, International Program, of ENCRYM, Mexico; at the Higher Institute of Conservation and Restoration YachayWasi, Lima; at the Image Center, Lima; and has imparted photo conservation courses in countries such as Peru, Ecuador, and Cuba. She is currently Director of the private photography conservation lab "Cecilia Salgado Conservation" (2004 - to date), studies in the postgraduate program of Management Preservation and Diffusion of Photographic Archives, at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, and coordinates the research seminar on photographic heritage (GIF) at the ENCRyM, México.
Sarah Sanchez
Sarah Sanchez is a PhD candidate in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northeastern University, where she researches life cycle assessment and environmental justice. She has previously published an LCA comparing reusable and disposable blood pressure cuffs in Resources, Conservation and Recycling.
Linnaea E Saunders
Linnaea E Saunders (AIC PA) is a Conservator of Paintings in private practice in Los Angeles. Following her studies at Vassar College and the Courtauld Institute of Art, Linnaea completed Internship, Fellowship and contract positions at the Cleveland Museum of Art, Mauritshuis, and Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Linnaea established her private painting conservation studio The Conservator’s Easel, LLC in 2007. She works with individual collectors, galleries and institutional clients. Her practice includes treatment and technical study of works from 15th through 21st century, as well as collections care and acquisition advice.
Dominique Scalarone
Dominique is the co-author for Study and restoration treatment of a collage by Giulio Turcato: from precision mild heat transfer using IMAT nanotechnology to novel sustainable methods and strategies for consolidation and reintegration.
Netanya Shephard Schiff
Netanya Schiff began her training in conservation practice in Florence, Italy in 2012, receiving a Bachelor of Science in Conservation Studies. She continued her studies at University College London where she received her Master of Arts and Master of Science degrees in Principles of Conservation and Conservation for Archeology and Museums respectively. Netanya holds of has worked within institutions and private practices in Italy, the United States, and the United Kingdom including the British Museum, Royal Museums Greenwich, La Soprintendenza Archeologica Peril Lazzo and the Central Park Conservancy. Since returning to the United States Netanya has work with private practices on both coasts as a contracting and assistant conservator, most recently having the pleasure of working with the ArtCare Los Angeles team.
Katherine Schilling
Katherine is the co-author of Identification of mahogany and look-alike woods in 18th- and 19th-century furniture using laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) and pyrolysis gas chromatography mass spectrometry (Py-GC/MS).
Michael Schilling
Michael is the co-author of Microscopic Examination of Asian Lacquer Surfaces Prior to Treatment.
Magdalena Schindler
Magdalena Schindler (*1986) received her Diploma degree in 2012 from the Conservation Program at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna with a focus on the Conservation - Restoration of Mural Paintings / Architectural Surfaces. Since then, she’s been working as a freelancer, since 2014 she is member of the scientific staff at the Academy of Fine Arts. She is board member of the International Institute for Conservation Austria. Since 2016 she is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Conservation-Restoration at the Academy of Fine Arts, since 2018/19 she’s taking part in the project History of Conservation in Austria: Tacit Knowledge and Disciplinary Professionalization, researching the development of wall painting conservation in Austria.
Anne Schmid
Anne Schmid is the current Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Painting Conservation at The Menil Collection in Houston, Texas. Anne is a graduate of Bern University of the Arts, Switzerland, where she earned both a Bachelor of Art in Conservation in 2010 and a Master of Art in Conservation-Restoration of paintings and sculptures in 2013. Before and during her study years, she interned at both private studios and public institutions across Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Spain. Her focus on the conservation of modern and contemporary art, in particular paintings, was shaped early through studio projects in university, her Bachelor’s thesis based on a technological research of a large Matisse paper cut-out on canvas, and a three-year position as Assistant Conservator at the Fondation Beyeler in Basel, Switzerland. Having gained experience in the field of 17th and 18th century oil painting through her Master’s research on copper supports with additional silver-colored metal layers, and a year-long project on a painting by Murillo at the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin, she returned to modern and contemporary painting conservation in her fellowship at the Menil.
Sonja Schwoll
Sonja Schwoll, Head of Conservation and Treatment Development, The National Archives, UK, has an MA in Art History from the Freie Universitaet Berlin, and an MA in Conservation from Camberwell College of Arts. Sonja used to run a London-based book conservation studio. She also was lecturer for Book Conservation at West Dean College and Camberwell College of the Arts. Sonja has a specialization in the study and conservation of stationery binding structures from medieval to modern periods. As Head of Conservation and Treatment Development in the Collection Care Department at TNA, she is leading the development of their new Conservation Documentation system. Throughout her career, she has supported professional conservation bodies in various capacities, including committee work, organization of conferences and teaching. Currently she is exploring the improved collaboration and exchange of conservation documentation projects, platforms and networks.
Phillip Schuetz
Phillip is the author of The effect of conservation agents on non-destructive dendrochronology.
Robert Shure
Robert Shure was trained as a sculptor and has worked in this medium for over forty years. In tandem with the work of sculpting, he has many years of related projects including the replication and restoration of works of art and the conservation of sculpture.
Jessica Silverman
Jessica is affiliated with the Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts.
Giselle Simón
Giselle Simón is the Conservator at the University of Iowa Libraries and Adjunct Faculty at the University of Iowa Center for the Book. Her interest in books, prints, and paper began at the Kansas City Art Institute, where she received a BFA in printmaking in 1990. She began book conservation work at Northwestern University Library in 1992, studying with Scott Kellar and Deborah Howe. From 2001–2012 she worked at the Newberry Library in Chicago, first as Collections Conservator and then as Director of Conservation Services. She has taught bookbinding and conservation classes at Columbia College Chicago Center for the Book and Paper Arts and collections care courses at the University of Chicago’s Graham School. She is a Co-Director for Paper and Book Intensive, a working sabbatical for paper and book practitioners.
Mary Slater
Mary is the author of Evaluating efficacy of cyclododecane in cross-sectional architectural paint analysis.
Landis Smith
Landis Smith is an independent consultant and projects conservator based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The focus of her work over thirty years has been on the development of conservation and documentation methodologies that are collaborative with Native American artists, elders, scholars and leaders. Recent work includes co-facilitating the development and web publication of the Guidelines for Collaboration (www.guidelinesforcollaboration.info) with the Indian Arts Research Center at the School for Advanced Research (SAR). Landis is currently co-editing the Standards of Excellence for Museums with Native American Collections for the American Alliance of Museums; leading an IMLS-funded project to collaboratively document and conserve collections at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture in Santa Fe. and. Landis’s previous work includes creating an FAIC webinar class, Building Collaboration Between Museums and Communities and organizing and leading “place-based” educational programs in New Mexico for NMAI Fellows and staff in collaboration with Native communities and tribal museums. She was Anchorage Project Conservator at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) Arctic Studies Center, working extensively with Alaska Native artists and elders. Landis has been a Research Associate with the National Museum of the American Indian and serves on several advisory boards including the Haak’u Museum at Acoma Pueblo and UCLA/Getty Mellon Opportunity for Diversity in Conservation. With Glenn Wharton, she co-chairs the Philosophy and Ethics Working Group of the FAIC/NEH Held in Trust initiative.
Karolina Soppa
Karolina Soppa graduated from the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design (Germany) in 2006 with a diploma in Conservation and Restoration of Paintings and Painted Sculptures (thesis on the penetration of polybutylmethacrylates in canvas paintings). After working for half a year at the Stichting Kollektief Restauratieatelier (SKRA) in Amsterdam and for one year at the Doerner Institute in Munich, she started writing a PhD thesis on the penetration of protein glues and methylcellulose during the re-adhesion of flaking paint on canvas. She substituted for Professor Volker Schaible at the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design in the winter term 2009–2010, followed by a collaboration in a conservation project on Hans Holbein the elder's "Grey Passion" at the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart. In October 2010, she was appointed professor at the Berne University of Applied Sciences (BUA) in Switzerland. Since 2012 she has been head of the painting and sculpture specialisation and since 2015 coordinator of the BUA "Centre for Wood – Resource and Material“. Her main two research interests are adhesion and cohesion in general as well as wood conservation.
Daniel V. de Souza
Daniel is the co-author of Social Disconnection: Is it the 11th Agent of Deterioration?
Laura Speranza
LAURA SPERANZA is graduated in Art History with Roberto Salvini at the University of Florence, where she also obtained a specialization in the History of Medieval and Modern Art. Winner of the public competition at the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, she was assigned, as Historical Inspector of Art, to the Superintendency of Arezzo where, for ten years, she curated exhibitions, museum installations, publications and directed two State Museums: Casa Vasari in Arezzo and Palazzo Taglieschi in Anghiari. She collaborated in the restoration of the murals with the Legend of the True Cross by Piero della Francesca, of the Cross painted by Cimabue in the Church of San Domenico. Mooved in 2000 at the Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence, she has directed important restorations on works by Michelangelo, Brunelleschi, Donatello, Luca and Andrea della Robbia. Currently she heads the Ceramic, Plastic and Vitreous Materials Restoration Department and the Bronze and Ancient Weapons Restoration Department; she is also the Director of the Opificio delle Pietre Dure Museum and she is part of the Scientific Council and of the Board of Directors of the Opificio delle Pietre Dure. She co-directs the magazine of the Opificio delle Pietre Dure "OPD Restauro". Laura lives and works in Florence (Italy).
Gwen Spicer
Gwen Spicer is a textile, paper, upholstery and objects conservator in private practice. She earned her MA in Art Conservation from Buffalo State College, and has since taught and lectured around the world. In her private practice, she assists many individuals and organizations of all sizes with storage, collection care, and exhibitions, and has become known for her innovative conservation treatments. A recent project was overseeing the inaugural textiles displayed at the National Museum of African American History & Culture. She received a Kress fellowship to write a book on the use of magnets in conservation. The book, titled Magnetic Mounting Systems for Museums and Cultural Institutions, was published in 2019. She is a Fellow of AIC and of the Flag Research Center.
Kristen St. John
Kristen St. John has been the Head of Conservation Services for the Stanford Libraries since 2014. She has previously served as Collections Conservator for UCLA Library and as Special Collections Conservator for Rutgers University Libraries. Her research interests include making conservation documentation more accessible through the use of Linked Open Data. She is also part of an internal project within Stanford's Conservation Services evaluating bias in terminology and in internal documentation to promote greater accuracy, inclusion and anti-racism. Kristen has an MLIS with an Advanced Certificate in Conservation from the University of Texas at Austin and an undergraduate degree in Classics from Trinity College, Dublin.
Ingrid Stelzner
Ingrid Stelzner was trained as an object conservator at the State Academy of Art and Design in Stuttgart, Germany (ABK), and graduated with the thesis: Waterlogged archaeological leather – Analyses of the conservation with polyethylene glycol. During her professional career she was employed in several museums and State Offices for Monument Preservation with a with a focus on the conservation of archaeological objects. Between 2012 and 2014 she worked in the research project “Investigation of new conservation materials and determination of process-relevant properties in the freeze-drying of wetland finds” and performed a PhD thesis in this topic at the ABK. Here, she also held several lectureships. In 2018 and 2019, she was employed in the joint research project THEFBO at the Curt-Engelhorn-Zentrum Archäometrie gGmbH in Mannheim, Germany (CEZA), where, she worked on research questions related to conservation and material identification of archaeological textiles from pile dwellings South-West Germany from sites that have been designated to UNESCO World Heritage. Since 2019, she is conservation scientist at the Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, Leibniz archaeological research institute (RGZM) in Mainz, Germany, where she is head of the binational project CuTAWAY – Conservation and Wood Analyses.
Jörg Stelzner
Jörg is the Author of The effect of conservation agents on non-destructive dendrochronology.
Victoria Stevens
I am a library and archive conservator accredited by the Institute of Conservation (Icon). I have worked in written heritage conservation for over 20 years, mainly in the central library and college collections of the University of Oxford but also in local government, museum, educational and religious libraries and archives across the country. I now manage my own UK-wide conservation practice and preservation consultancy from my studio in Reading, UK. As well as working on the physical collections, I advise on environmental management, storage and exhibition of archive material and have strong experience of working with archives in museum collections. I am an assessor for The National Archives Archives Revealed scheme, an assessor for the Collection Audit scheme offered by Association of Independent Museums and a museum accreditation mentor for Arts Council England. I particularly enjoy engagement and outreach: through my bolt-on business, Take 5 Engagement CIC, I offer a programme of highly tactile workshops which aim to enable everyone to understand and enjoy the material qualities of archives and their conservation. Based on using all five senses, this is a particularly positive approach for people who may not connect with written heritage through solely visual methods but through a combination of methods. I am proud to be a strong advocate for my profession, and currently serve as an Icon accreditation assessor and also as a committee member of the Preservation and Conservation Group for the Archives and Records Association. I also serve on the Church of England's Fabric Advisory Committee for Hereford Cathedral.
Elly Stewart Davis
Elly Stewart Davis is a first year graduate student at the Garman Art Conservation Program at SUNY Buffalo State University where she specializes in Objects Conservation. Elly graduated Cum Laude from the University of Tulsa in 2020 with a BA in Art History and held pre-program internships at The Art Institute of Chicago, The Cleveland Museum of Art, and The Gilcrease Museum of Art. She resides in Buffalo, NY with her husband Ben and their cattle dog Hot Beans.
Sarah Sutton
Sarah Sutton is Chief Executive Officer Environment & Culture Partners, a consultancy for cultural institutions on environmental sustainability and climate action. She organizes the US cultural sector in support of We Are Still In, now becoming America is All In on the 19th of February when the US rejoins the Paris Agreement. She is co-author with Elizabeth Wylie of The Green Museum, a Primer on Environmental Practice.
Alyson Tang
Alyson Tang is currently a conservator in the Objects and Archaeology Lab at Parks Canada, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. She was previously an Assistant Conservation Technician with Ingenium - Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, Ottawa, Ontario where the focus of her work was on the move of the collection into a new, custom-built facility. Alyson has also worked as an Assistant Move Conservator at the Royal Alberta Museum, Edmonton, Alberta, and completed a year-long fellowship in the Archaeology Lab at the Canadian Conservation Institute, Ottawa, Ontario. She received a BA (Hons) in Classical Archaeology from Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario and a postgraduate diploma in Collections Conservation and Management from Fleming College, Peterborough, Ontario.
Chandra Throckmorton
Chandra is the co-author of Application of laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) for micro-sampling-based elemental analysis of cultural heritage objects and the co-author of Identification of mahogany and look-alike woods in 18th- and 19th-century furniture using laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) and pyrolysis gas chromatography mass spectrometry (Py-GC/MS).
Elsa Thyss
Elsa is the Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Photograph Conservation at the Art Institute of Chicago. She holds a Master’s degree from the five-year graduate conservation program in management for cultural heritage at the Institut national du patrimoine in Paris, with a specialization in Photograph Conservation, and a degree in Art History from the Ecole du Louvre. Elsa’s previous experiences include graduate internships at the Atelier de Conservation-Restauration des Photographies de la Ville de Paris and at the Art Institute of Chicago, and a three-year Research Scholarship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She currently serves as an English-French translator of abstracts for JAIC and a volunteer for the Communications Committee.
Binumol Tom
Binumol Tom is the author of Alternative for toxic chemical timber preservatives.
Johanna Tower
Johanna Tower is the Associate Fashion and Textile Conservator at Windsor Conservation, a private textile conservation studio based in Dover, Massachusetts. Since 2016, Johanna has provided conservation and mounting services for institutions and private clients throughout the United States. Recent exhibition work includes Make Good the Promises: Reconstruction and Its Legacies at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington D.C., Made It: The Women Who Revolutionized Fashion at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA, The Iconic Jersey: Baseball x Fashion at the Worcester Art Museum in Worcester, MA and Gender Bending Fashion at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Johanna specializes in the analysis, conservation and display of historic fashion with a particular interest in early American dress. After receiving her Master of Science in Textile Conservation from the University of Rhode Island in 2015, she was the Andrew W. Mellon Fellow for Advanced Training in Textile Conservation at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston from 2015 to 2016. Johanna also holds a Diploma in Costume Studies from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia (2009) and a Bachelor of Arts in History from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island (2006).
Shun-Jen Tsai
Shun-Jen Tsai, the founder of TSJ Art Restoration, had trained and worked in Europe for ten years. Since 2013, Tsai established TSJ Art Restoration and launched his talent cultivation programme in Taiwan. Tsai had worked in National Taiwan University of Arts, Taiwan as Visiting Assistant Professor, and has been the Assistant Professor in National Chengchi University, renowned university in managements and social sciences in Taiwan since 2020. Tsai was invited to several major conservation conferences to present diverse restoration experience and the how he tackles conservation difficulties in Asia, he had presented in several cities, such as Stockholm, New York, Osaka, Kanazawa, Hong Kong, Macaw and Singapore. Meanwhile, Tsai’s passion in promoting arts and collection maintenance also led him to the position of deputy director in Asia University Museum of Modern Art. For nearly 10 years, Tsai devoted his skills in the top-notch art restorations in Taiwan, including the masterpieces by Andrea Procaccini, Carlo Maratta, Wou-ki Zao, The-Chun Chu, as well as the bronze ’Le Pensur’ by Rodin. In 2015, Tsai was chosen to restore the oil painting " The Flowers" by Paolo Porpora, after a 12-year-old boy accidentally tore a hole in painting during an exhibition in Taipei. The accident stimulated a huge discussion of art restoration in Taiwan and drew the attention of the public to understand art restoration. However, Tsai's greatest contribution to exquisite arts turns out to be his role in conserving Taiwan's unique religious art. Over the years, Tsai has pioneered significant historic interior restorations like Dasian Temple (built in 1915, with over 3,000 pcs of artworks, restored for nearly 3 years) and Chong-Yuan Tang (built in 1928, with 3,000 pcs of works, restored for 1.5 years). Nowadays, Tsai focuses on the emerging interest in cultural preservation and collection maintenance across Asia.
