Proceedings of the Objects Specialty Group Session
38th Annual Meeting in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; May 12 and 14, 2010

Conservation Continuum: Examining the Past, Envisioning the Future

Compiled by Carolyn Riccardelli, Program Chair with Christine Del Re

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Program Chair’s Foreword
Carolyn Riccardelli

Postprints abstracts

• Emerald Laser Lawn by Dan Corson in the Broward County Public Art & Design Collection
  Tin Ly

• Preventive conservation and identification of plastics of a recent acquisition at The National Museum of the American Indian
  Anne Turner Gunnison, Susan Heald, Jia-Sun Tsang, Yoonjo Lee, and Jennifer Giaccai

• A new approach to maintaining water features and reducing biological growth
  Robert Krueger

• Re-thinking the cleaning of Claes Oldenburg’s Floor Cake (Giant Piece Of Cake)
  Margo Delidow and Cynthia Albertson

• Plaster, pliacré, and paper
  Mina Thompson and Conor McMahon

• Henry Moore’s Bronze Form and Large Figure in a Shelter: interpreting the original surface
  Katrina Posner

• An examination of pinning materials for marble sculpture
  Carolyn Riccardelli, George Wheeler, Christina Muir, George Scherer, and Joe Vocaturo

• The scientific examination and re-treatment of an Egyptian limestone relief from the tomb of Ka-aper
  Kathleen M. Garland and John Twilley

• The Field Museum Archaeological Metals Project: distributed, in situ micro-environments for the preservation of unstable archaeological metals using Escal Barrier Film
  J.P. Brown

• Examining past treatments of cedar and spruce waterlogged basketry from the Northwest Coast
  Dana K. Senge and Ellen Carrlee

Unpublished presentation abstracts

• Conservation and restoration of an Egyptian wooden human-like form coffin in Suez Museum
  Abdel-Rahman el-Serogy and Abdel-Salam Eleasely

• Keeping the circle unbroken: Treatment of David Smith’s 2 Circle IV
  Suzanne Hargrove

• Resurrecting a set of composite tools from the 1st Century A.D. Roman wreck of Porto-Novo Corsica, France
  Paul Mardikian

• Inside Out, Red, The conservation of an Anish Kapoor powder-pigment sculpture
  Andrew Smith

• Using 3-D prototyping as an intermediary in the reconstruction of ancient pottery
  Renée Stein, Susan Blevins, Nelson Burke, Dr. David Rosen, and Andrew Layton