Proceedings of Objects Specialty Group and Tips Sessions
53rd Annual Meeting – Minneapolis; May 27-31, 2025
What’s Your Story? The Power of Collaborations and Connections

Edited by Raina Chao, Aliza Taft, and Julie Unruh, with Caroline Roberts, Program Chair
Download the complete volume 32 PDF here
Program Chair’s Foreword
Caroline Roberts
Individual article PDFs are available by following the links below

Postprints Abstracts
New African Masquerades: Flexible Mounts for a Collaborative Exhibition
Ingrid Seyb
Mighty Powder: Demonstrating that Fumed Silica Increases the Adhesive Strength of Paraloid B-72
Renée Stein, Connie B. Roth, Olivia L. F. Boyd, Elly Stewart Davis, and Noah Trotz
Bulked B-72 Fills
Carolyn Riccardelli
Fit to Float: Conservation of a Painted Canvas and Birchbark Canoe
Sejal Goel, Fran Ritchie, and Nicole Peters
Restoring Henry Moore’s Outdoor Sculpture Bronze Form at the Getty Museum
Julie Wolfe, Andrew Baxter, Robert Price, and Katrina Posner
A Case of the Weeping Buddha: Testing a Low Maintenance, Low Relative Humidity Microclimate
Geneva Griswold
Flashlight Recommendation
Miriam-Helene Rudd
Unpublished Presentations – Abstracts Only
A Sterling Conservation Project: Preparing 1200 Pieces of Gorham Silver for Exhibition and Travel
Ingrid A. Neuman
Rediscovering and Assembling Painted Wooden Boxes from King Tutankhamun’s Collection: a Collaborative Approach
Ahmed Abdrabou, Ali Hussein, Gilan Sultan, and Medhat Abdallah
Exploring Consolidation of Degraded Natural Foam Rubber
Lindsay Cross and Lauren Horelick
“Turning the Feather Around”: Conservation of a Monumental George Morrison Mural
Megan Emery, Courtney Murray, Luke Boehnke, Mary LaGarde, and Megan Randall
Radiography in the Round: Capturing and Viewing X-Rays in 360°
Arlen Heginbotham, BJ Farrar, Mark Erdmann
Perpetual Conservation: a Continuing Collaboration to Conserve Jack Nelson’s Kinetic Sculpture Clock
Nicole Flam, Laura Kubick, and Kristin Cheronis
Gorgonize by Her Monsterful Snoutfair Visage: Harriet Hosmer’s Medusa in Context
Clara Livingston Bailin
Still Got the Blues: The Technical Study and Conservation Treatment of a Tian-Tsui Headdress
Devon Lee
When Art Meets Engineering: Collaborative Approaches to Outdoor Sculpture Installations at the Toledo Museum of Art
Emily Cummins
My Kingdom for a Drain: The Collaborative Treatment of Robert Gober’s Untitled Installation
Stephanie Cashman
Mercury: A Collections Component – a Panel Discussion
Lisa Goldberg and Kerith Koss Schrager