Proceedings of Objects, Architecture + Objects, and Objects + Wooden Artifacts Specialty Group Sessions
44th Annual Meeting in Montreal, Quebec, Canada; May 13-17, 2016

Emergency! Preparing for Disasters and Confronting the Unexpected in Conservation

Edited by Emily Hamilton and Kari Dodson, with Laura Lipcsei, Christine Storti, and Leslie Friedman, Program Chairs

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Program Chair’s Foreword
Laura Lipcsei

Postprints abstracts and articles

• A methodology for documenting preservation issues affecting cultural heritage in Syria and Iraq
  LeeAnn Barnes Gordon, Bijan Rouhani, Susan Penacho, and Allison Cuneo

• The effect of an unexpected spring thaw in Montreal: Natural disaster as ‘Fifth Business’
  Brittany Webster, Ann MacKay, and Alexander Gabov

• The rescue and conservation of the Lost Shul Mural
  Richard L. Kerschner and Constance S. Silver

• Red flames, silver linings
  Mimi Leveque and Eric Wolin

• Issues and challenges in conservation of living monastic heritage in the trans-Himalayan region of Ladakh, India
  Satish C. Pandey, Joyoti Roy, and Noor Jahan

• The treatment and installation of a monumental cedar sculpture by Ursula von Rydingsvard
  Emily Hamilton

• The study of boxwood prayer beads and miniature altars from the Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Metropolitan Museum of Art
  Lisa Ellis and Pete Dandridge

• Decoys x-rayed: What VolumeRAD tomosynthesis and computed tomography contribute to technical study
  Nancie Ravenel

• The aftermath of mends: Removing historic fabric tape from Tlingit basketry
  Caitlin Mahony and Teri Rofkar

• Encountering the unexpected in Southeast Asian lacquer: Treating the Doris Duke Collection at the Walters Art Museum
  Stephanie Hulman, Meg Loew Craft, Glenn Gates, Herant P. Khanjian, and Michael R. Schilling

• Looking at guilloché in conservation
  Brittany Nicole Cox and David Lindow

• When in Rome, do as the Romans do? The conservation of an Italian marble and micromosaic tabletop
  Elizabeth La Duc

• An unexpected surface: Research and treatment of a 19th century mounted oyster shell by Froment-Meurice
  Emily Brown

• Resin and lac adhesives in Southwest archaeology and microchemical tests for their identification
  Christina Bisulca, Marilen Pool, and Nancy Odegaard

• Conservation of Joan Miró’s bronze sculptures at the Museum of Modern Art
  Megan Randall, Lynda Zycherman, and Roger Griffith

• Conservation and investigation of an ancient human burial at Abydos, Egypt
  Lucy Skinner, Corina Rogge, Islam Shaheen, and Salima Ikram

• Facing the past for action in the future: Cultural survival in Native America
  Kelly McHugh

Tips Session

• No more holidays: A tip for metal coating
  Tina Gessler and Steven Pine

• Desiccant tubes for storage of unstable materials, or confessions of a microclimate denier
  Dennis Piechota

• Tips for feather fills
  Fran Ritchie and Julia Sybalsky

• Core-drill sampling with the Sherline milling machine
  Anthony Sigel

• Avoiding mistakes: How not to lose things
• Anthony Sigel

Unpublished Presentation Abstracts

• The outdoor sculpture project at the Getty Conservation Institute
  Rachel Rivenc, Julia Langenbacher, Catherine Defeyt, and Tom Learner

• A new understanding of the aging characteristics of Asian lacquer
  Marianne Webb

• Reverse engineering ancient Greek ceramics: An interdisciplinary collaboration
  Sanchita Balachandran, Matthew Hyleck, and Patricia McGuiggan

• Acne gel for green ear syndrome? A study on copper corrosion stain removal from poly(vinyl chloride)
  Dawn MP Wallace, Aaron N. Shugar, Jonathan Thornton, and Rebecca Ploeger

• Using heat and cold in the treatment of a Lakota winter count
  Nancy Odegaard, Madeleine Neiman, and Dave Smith

Tips Session

• The rescue, remediation and recovery of Sargent Claude Johnson’s last sculpture: Surface cleaning methods utilizing CO2 dry ice micro-dusting after CO2 anoxia encapsulation
  Elise Yvonne Rousseau