2024 | Salt Lake City

These are articles and abstracts from presentations given in the general and concurrent general sessions of AIC’s 52nd Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City.

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In Honor of Juneteenth: Conserving General Order No. 3 at the National Archives in Washington, DC | Sonya Barron

Investing in African American Community Engagement at the UCLA/Getty Conservation Program | Anya Dani

Stitching Memories: Collaborating with Trans Survivors to Preserve Their Photographic Histories | Carolina Nastri, Carolina A. Figueredo, and Ornella O. Vega

Creating a Preservation Program: The Challenges of Engaging the Public Amy Barry

A New Discovery of Chiura Obata’s Drawings | Yoshiyuki Nishio, Stacey M. Kelly, Luke Kelly, and Kyoichi Itoh

“It Depends”: Teaching Undergraduate Conservation Students to Navigate and Embrace the Shades of Gray | Madeline Gray Hagerman

“Distant; Digital; Dangerous?” Novel Approaches to Contemporary Risk Management, Object Access, and Display at the Victoria and Albert Museum | Vanessa Applebaum and Clair Battisson

They Say Life is Full of Surprises . . . It is an Occupational Hazard for a Filming Conservator | Claire Fry, Charlotte Tomlin, and Vicki Marsland

Creating the Black Panther Custom Mannequin from Digital to Physical Laura Mina, Willow Collins, Zachary Hudson, and Matthew Lynn

Cultural Heritage and 3D Printing: State of the Art and the Technology’s Future | Meredith Sharps Noyes, Emma J. Richardson, Jennifer Jae Gutierrez, and Lauren Parish (abstract)

Transforming Cultural Heritage Preservation: The Power of 3D Technology, Bridging Past and Present with
3D Technology in Cultural Restoration, Accessibility, and Museum Mount Making
|Chris Hollshwander (abstract)

Sculpting Solutions: 3D Technologies for Conservation Problem Solving
Sean Billups (abstract)

Primary Results of Using the Scientific Documentation of 3D Laser Scanning and 3D Printing in King Khufu’s Second Boat Reassembling Proposal |Takeshi Oishi, Mahmoud Ismail, Nour M. Badr, Mohamed El-Seaidy, Masataka Kagesawa, Hiromasa Kurokochi, Kadry Mitwally, Youssef Nabarawy, Ragab Salama, Mamdouh Taha, Sakuji Yoshimura, Mahmmoud Shehab, and Eissa Zidan (abstract)

The Conservator and the Seven Stages of Grief |Marie-Lou Beauchamp

Teaching Empathy in Conservation to Prioritize People |Nina Owczarek and Andrew B. Jenks

Developing a More Diverse Future for the Field of Conservation Through a Train-the-Trainer Initiative |Bianca Garcia and Annabelle F. Camp (abstract)

Collaboration through Repatriation: How International Repatriation Efforts at the Fowler Museum at UCLA Initiated Community Involvement, Shared Decision Making, Challenges, and Surprises
Christian De Brer

Ethical and Practical Considerations in the Collection and Conservation of Insignia III by Carlos Martiel | Dana Mossman Tepper and Annabelle F. Camp (abstract)

Corporal Materials in Contemporary Art: Multimodal Analysis of an Exudating Human Fat-and-Wax Pillar | Marc Walton, Lynn Lee, Oi Yan Michelle Chan, Michael Schilling, and Alessandra Guarascio (abstract)

Conservation for Communities: A Model for Outreach to Tribal Audiences | Megan Brakob Narvey and Rita Walaszek Arndt

Public Art Stewards: Lessons from a Flagship Training Program
Margalit Schindler

Museums for the 21st Century: Supporting Indonesia in a Changing Environment | Kristal Hale, Saiful Bakhri, and Sandra Sardjono

Great Salt Lake: Connections between Fragile Ecology and Heritage Preservation Justine Wuebold and Elisse Brautigam

Reconsidering Agency in Conservation Practice: The Role of Devil’s Club Root in the Display of a Tlingit Canoe Prow | Amy Tjiong (abstract)

Multiband RTI for Investigating Cold-Worked Glass and Ceramics
Sarah Barack and Jessica Walthew

Identifying Multispectral Imaging Wavelengths to Create “Recipes” for Analysis of Nonvisible Information on Parchment and Thermal Paper
Izzy Moyer and Leah Humenuck

Curious Damage Calls for Surprising Solutions: Catering to the Engineering Curious in the Conservation, Animation, and Preservation of Movable and Pop-Up Books | Katie Smith (abstract)

Technical Analysis of Inks Used for Scientific Annotations on the Harvard Astronomical Photographic Glass Plate Collection | Elena Bulat, Debora Mayer, Arthur Mcclelland, Thom Burns, Amanda Maloney, Georgina Rayner, Samara Ayvazian-Hancock, and Tess Bronwyn Hamilton (abstract)

Below the Surface of Braque’s “Pitcher, Candlestick, and Black Fish”
Desirae Dijkema and Adam Neese (abstract)

Exploring Variations in Green Pigment Degradation in Early Printed and Hand-Colored Works on Paper | Lieve Watteeuw and Yun Liu (abstract)

Demystifying Our Metadata: Making Conservation Documentation Accessible in the Digital Library at the University of Illinois
Jennifer Hain Teper, Julia Cardinal, and Quinn Morgan Ferris

What Does the Box Say? Improving Enclosure Design and Labeling as a Result of User Research | Lauren Telepak, Meg McMahon, and Amanda Hope (abstract)

The Conundrum of Accepted Assumptions from Thousands of Tested Book Papers | Andrew Davis, Amanda Satorius, Fenella France, Elizabeth Torres, and Megan Zins (abstract)

Bridging the Intangible: Two Generations of Chinese Painting Conservators | Grace Jan

Contemporary Art Conservation in New York City’s Art Market Environment | Mareike Opeña

One Cannot Plan for the Unexpected: Problem Solving during the Major Reinstallation of the Princeton University Art Museum | Elena Torok and Bart Devolder (abstract)

Introductory Remarks for the Mistakes Session | Kari Rayner

Accidents Waiting to Happen: Preventing Mistakes | Tony Sigel

Why Did My Fossils Change Color? Sample Degradation during a Research Delay | Catherine G. Cooper

Three Mistakes That I Made Preparing B-72 Adhesive | Stephen P. Koob

Failure | Jennifer Clarvoe

Closing Remarks for the Mistakes Session | Tony Sigel