Proceedings of the Objects Specialty Group and joint Objects + Research & Technical Studies Sessions
40th Annual Meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico
May 9-11, 2012

Compiled by Mina Thompson, Program Chair, with Emily Hamilton and Kari Dodson

Postprints abstracts and articles

• So far away from me? Conservation and archaeology
  Suzanne Davis and Claudia Chemello

• In their true colors: developing new methods for recoloring faded taxidermy
  Elizabeth Nunan, Judith Levinson, Lisa Elkin, Corina Rogge, Julia Sybalsky, and Becca Pollak

• A comparative study of protective coatings for marble sculpture in the museum setting
  Laura Kubick and Jennifer Giaccai, with contributions by Helen Ingalls and Hugh Shockey

• The use of agar as a solvent gel in objects conservation
  Cindy Lee Scott

• Some unusual, hidden, surprising, or forgotten sources of (possible) sulfur contamination in museums and historic structures
  Paul L. Benson

• The treatment of a Mi’kmaq box made of birchbark, porcupine quills, and iron-dyed spruceroot
  Carole Dignard, Amanda Salmon, and Season Tse

• Raising Meret-it-es: examining and conserving and Egyptian anthropoid coffin from 380-250 BCE
  Kathleen M. Garland, John Twilley, Dr. Johanna Bernstein, and Joe Rogers

• Always Becoming
  Nora Naranjo-Morse, Gail Joice, and Kelly McHugh

Unpublished presentation abstracts

• CiA.org: Chemistry in Art Scholars – a virtual and real community
  Patricia Hill, Anthony Lagalante, Nancy Odegaard, Deberah Simon, and Erich Uffelman

• The Qero Project: Conservation and science collaboration over time
  Emily Kaplan, Ellen Howe, Ellen Pearlstein, and Judith Levinson

• Analysis and conservation of American Indian silver jewelry
  Teresa K. Moreno

• “Holy Mammoth, Batman!” conservation education and outreach for the preservation of a Columbian mammoth
  Vanessa Muros and Allison Lewis

• From the art of surface to the ATR of a surface: The rapid, non-invasive analysis of synthetic materials used by finish fetish artists
  Emma Richardson, Rachel Rivenc, and Tom Learner