Proceedings of the Objects Specialty Group Session
37th Annual Meeting in Los Angeles, California; May 20 and 22, 2009

Conservation 2.0—New Directions

Compiled by Helen Alten, Program Chair, with Christine Del Re, Patricia Griffin, Emily Hamilton, Kari Kipper, and Carolyn Riccardelli

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Program Chair’s Foreword
Helen Alten

Postprints abstracts

• Microclimate storage for metals (and other humidity-sensitive collections): practical solutions
  Gretchen Anderson

• Blow it off: moving beyond compressed air with carbon dioxide snow
  L. H. (Hugh) Shockey Jr.

• Miniaturized cold atmospheric plasma for improving the adhesion properties of plastics in modern and contemporary art
  Anna Comiotto

• Kiss and tell: the conservation of lipstick-based work by Rachel Lachowicz
  Elizabeth Homberger and Carl Patterson

• Disrobing: research and preventive conservation of painted hide robes at the ethnological museum, National Museums Berlin, Germany
  Anne Turner Gunnison, Helene Tello, Peter Bolz, and Nancy Fonicello

• The Anchorage Project: gut decisions in cultural and museum contexts
  Landis Smith, Kelly McHugh, Michele Austin Dennehy, and Kim Cullen-Cobb

• Conservation at Kaman-Kalehöyük, Turkey, 2008
  Alice Boccia Paterakis

• Technology as a tool for archaeological research and artifact conservation
  Gretchen Anderson and Giovanna Fregni

Unpublished presentation abstracts

• The laser cleaning of Anna Hyatt Huntington’s aluminum sculpture “The Torch Bearers”
  Michael Barrett, Andrew Baxter, Mark Lewis, and Scott Nolley

• Examination of an Egyptian corn mummy
  Meg Loew Craft

• Innovations in eddy current analysis of metals for Heritage Preservation
  Curtis Desselles, Mary Striegel, and Jason Church

• Storage ideas for feathered bonnets
  Nancy Fonicello

• The Faculte “Broadcast”: A new multi-media tool for conservators
  Candis Griggs Hakim and Mather Hakim

• Connecting materials science and engineering with archaeological conservation
  Paul Mardikian, Dr. Stephanie Crette, Dr. Michael Drews, Nestor Gonzalez, Johanna Rivero, and Claire Tindal

• Biotechnology for objects conservation
  John Scott