These are articles and abstracts from presentations given in the general and concurrent sessions of AIC’s 53rd Annual Meeting in Minneapolis.
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Powerful Places: Cultivating Cultural Resilience in Minnesota’s Sacred Ecological Sites | Justine Wuebold and Rachel Reynolds
In Commitment to Community: BACC’s Journey into Radical
Inclusion | Bianca Garcia and Leticia Gomez Franco
Considering Elements of Effective Collaboration at the National Museum of the American Indian| Kelly McHugh
Curiosa Naturalia: Bringing a Natural History Collection Back to
Life | Mariana Di Giacomo, Erika del Pino, Martín Batallés, and Paula Sánchez
Threads of Time: Discovering a 19th-Century Faroese Knitted
Sweater | Mariana Casagrande, Marc Vermeulen, and Sarah Noble
A Partnership Between The City Palace Museum in Udaipur and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York: The Joint Study of Mewar Paintings Through Multiband Imaging | Marina Ruiz Molina, Bhasha Shah, Anuja Mukherjee, and Girikumar Sekharakurup
Photogrammetry Fast: Developing a New Automated Pipeline | Kea Johnston and JP Brown
The Challenge of Chemical Reagents: The Verona Gaius and Vergil Palimpsests at the Confluence of Technologies | Gregory Heyworth
A Broad Brush Approach to Learning: Preserving Community
Heritage | Devon Lee, Halina Piasecki, Anne Léculier King, Eugenie Milroy, Pamela Hatchfield, Rachel Perkins Arenstein, and Yue Ma
Strategies for Accessible and Collaborative Training in Indigenous Collections Care | Ellen Pearlstein and Justine Wuebold
Teaching and Networking as a Strategy for the Preventive Conservation of Cultural and Scientific Heritage at the University of São Paulo and in
Brazil | Juliana Saft and Ina Hergert
Enhancing Diversity in Conservation through Collaboration at the World’s Largest Consortium of HBCUs | Shannon Douglas Kimbro and Tempe Stewart
Wooden Churches in Wartime Ukraine: Conservation
Challenges | Mariana Kaplinska and Ihor Bokalo
Conservation, Site Preservation, and Civil War at the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Jebel Barkal, Sudan: Lessons From Work During Armed Conflict | Suzanne Davis, Elmontaser Dafalla, Geoff Emberling, and Sami Elamin
Embedding Community Conservators in Public Libraries: Conservation as a Public Service | Joelle D. J. Wickens and Anisha Gupta
Acts of Commemoration: When Narrative Precedes Material Context at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum | Andy Wolfe, Kerith Koss Schrager, and Kate Fugett
A Field Services Guide to Emergency Response | Megan Brakob Narvey, Liz Koele, and Todd Mahon
Publishing Technical Material on a Museum Website: The Early Netherlandish Paintings at The Met as a Case Study | Sophie Scully
From Shared Mission to Shared Resources: The Joint Design and Development of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation and NYU Kress Conservation Websites | Shan Kuang, Dianne Modestini, Maya Kopytman, and Lisa Schermerhorn
Developing a Legacy of Open Access: Digital Catalogs at the Indianapolis Museum of Art |Roxane Sperber, Alex Chipkin, and Fiona Beckett
Jordan Wolfson’s Body Sculpture: Transferring Skills and Documenting Robots at the National Gallery of Australia | Paul Coleman, Melanie Barrett, and Neve Foxcroft
Future lives: Collaborative Approaches to the Conservation of Choreographic Artworks | Louise Lawson and Rochelle Haley
Visceral Adipose Tissue: Overcoming Boundaries for the Presentation and Preservation of 2000-04-11 by Gu Dexin | Alessandra Guarascio and Sara A. Moy
A Touchy Subject: Advancing Tactile Accessibility for Everyone | Jessica Chloros
Building Bridges: Reflections from a Collaborative Conservation
Project |Katy Kaspari, Megan E. Salas, Chris Patrello, Ellen Roth, and Marianne Nicolson
Thirty Sailors Walk into a Museum: A Story of Collaboration Between Collections Professionals and a US Naval Nuclear Submarine
Crew | Alyssa Opishinski and Brendan Perry
Supporting Our Communities On the Edge: Community-Led Conservation in the Midst of the Climate Crisis | Monica Shah, Lynn Church, Richard Knecht, and Warren Jones
A Focused and Critical Look at Collaborative Relationships at the National Museum of the American Indian | Beth Holford and Caitlin Mahoney
NEW Conservation Leadership Program with a Foundation in Cultural Equity | Sarah Kleiner, Amber Kerr, Anisha Gupta, Jen Mayer, Leticia Gomez Franco, and Lissa Rosenthall-Yoffe
Managing Change: Leadership in Conservation and Science for a New
Era | Francesca Casadio, Benjamin Rous, and Robert Van Langh
Your Neighborhood Museum: Creating a Workspace for Sustainable Community-Led Cultural Heritage Preservation Models | Lylliam Posadas and Jennifer Kim
Community-Inclusive Public Art Conservation: Inner Resources Mural Conservation Apprenticeship Project | Laleña Vellanoweth, Bianca Ramirez, and Jennifer Payan
Let There be Light: Reintroducing Natural Light with Mixed Displays at the National Portrait Gallery, London | Emmanuelle Largeteau, Alexandra Gent, and India Picton
“If You Build it, They Will Come”: Building a Climate-Controlled Storage Unite Inside a 1940s Warehouse on a Navy Base | Maria Vasquez and Meghan Rathbun
Hundreds of Objects, Very Few of Us: Treatment, Prioritization, and Teamwork During the Yale Peabody Museum Renovation | Mariana Di Giacomo
Illuminating Acceptable Change: Collaborative, Data-Driven Lighting Guidelines | Patricia Silence, Jan Gilliam, Gretchen Guidess, Neal Hurst, Perrine Lesaux, Michelle Leung, Kelly McCauley, and Jacquelyn Peterson-Grace
Illumination and Remembrance: Lighting Practices at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum |Kate Fugett, Andy Wolf, and Kerith Koss Schrager
Sustainability-Based Decision Making for Museum Lighting | David Saunders
Traditional Care and Western Care – A “Kinship” Approach to Collections Care | Pejuta Haka Win Red Eagle and Rebecca Newberry
To Box or Not to Box? The Journey to Culturally Sensitive Containers | Jo Lynne
Darning the Wear of Time in the 21st Century: Redefining the Art Historical Narrative and the Role of the Textile Conservator | Marissa Stevenson
Resonating Change through Collections Stewardship: The Creation of the Indigenous Collections Care Guide | Laura Elliff Cruz, Angela Neller, Laura Bryant, and Marla Taylor
Sustainable Practices within Collection Care: Balancing Environmental Conditions with Institutional Demands | Jackie Coppen and Chris Taft
Getting on the Same Page at NYPL: Learning Together to Advance Climate Action in Preservation and Exhibition Contexts | Rebecca Fifield and Colleen Grant
Sustainability Across the Collection Multiverse | Christopher Cameron
Teacher/Conservator Co-Creation: Lessons in K-12 Outreach | Greg Stuart
Community-Led Preservation: “Our Stuff, Our Stories” at the Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts | Katie Lowe and Greg Stuart
The Stories We Keep: Conservation as the Bridge to Connect Visitors, Staff and the Carnegie Museum of Natural History’s Collections | Annick Vuissoz and Gretchen Anderson
Letters to a Pre-Scientist: Accessible and Inclusive K-12 Outreach for Every Conservator | Ella Andrews
Establishing a Conservation Outreach Position at the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art | Sarah Rontal
(Un)Concealed Layers: Design + Public Reception of a Technical Analysis Exhibition | Courtney June Books
Van Gogh in Motion: Protecting Lined and Unlined Van Gogh Paintings from Vibration and Mechanical Shock During Transport | Saskia Van Oudheusden and Kerstin Kracht