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
- Program Chair’s Foreword
Mina Thompson
- 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Unpublished presentation abstracts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