Proceedings of the Objects Specialty Group Session
45th Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois
Treatment 2017: Innovation in Conservation and Collection Care
May 28-June 2, 2017
Edited by Kari Dodson and Emily Hamilton, with Anthony Sigel, Program Chair
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Program Chair’s Foreword
Anthony Sigel
Postprints abstracts
- The comprehensive retreatment of a Renaissance terracotta altarpiece by Benedetto Buglioni
Rachel C. Sabino
- Truth versus beauty: Maintaining visual unity in the treatment of Florentine polychrome terracotta sculpture
Anthony Sigel
- Conservation of 15th and 16th century Italian glazed terracotta: Thoughts from conservators in private practice
Leslie Ransick Gat and Erin Toomey
- The gap between ethics and aesthetics in Italian restoration: Experiences in the laboratories of the Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence – della Robbia sculpture case studies
Laura Speranza and Shirin Afra
- The treatment of two terracotta architectural reliefs by Andrea della Robbia at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Carolyn Riccardelli and Wendy Walker
- Structural repair of plaster sculpture using polyvinyl butyral resin
L. H. (Hugh) Shockey Jr.
- Carbon fiber fabric and its potential for use in objects conservation
Carolyn Riccardelli
- So delicate, yet so strong and versatile: The use of paper in objects conservation
Paula Artal-Isbrand
- Archaeological glass conservation: Comparative approaches and practicalities of using acrylic resin films as gap fills
Hana Bristow and Jan Dariusz Cutajar
- The use of medical chelating agents for the removal of iron stains from marble
Anna Funke, Leah Poole, Jason Church, Dr. Mary Striegel, and Martha Singer
- Well, that didn’t work, now what? Stain reduction on a 10th century Iranian ceramic
Claire Cuyaubère and Ellen Chase
- Treatment of two badly damaged Egyptian mummies and associated coffins
J.P. Brown, Mimi Leveque, and Morgan Nau
- Sitting pretty: Collaborative treatment of an early Yayoi Kusama soft-sculpture chair
Fran Baas and Laura Eva Hartman
- New technologies applied to restore a nineteenth-century wax Medardo Rosso sculpture
Lluïsa Sàrries-Zgonc
- The case of the hydrating hydra: Examination and treatment of a Blaschka glass invertebrate model
N. Astrid R. van Giffen
- “Do what’s right”: The conservation of a David Hammons mud sculpture
Sasha Drosdick, Roger Griffith, and Lynda Zycherman
General Session
- Resurrecting della Robbia’s Resurrection: Challenges in the conservation of a monumental Renaissance relief
Sara Levin, Nick Pedemonti, and Lisa Bruno
Tips Session
- Modifying rivet fasteners in historic armors: Several options
Katherine Cuffari and Debra Breslin
- “Stencil filling” technique for ceramics and the use of raking light during the filling process
Paula Artal-Isbrand
- Pepper wax: An organic squirrel deterrent for lead
Lauren Fair and Adam Jenkins
- Fast fills for big gaps
Rachel C. Sabino
Unpublished presentation abstracts
- To B-72 or not to B-72? Alternative adhesives for archaeological ceramics
Elisheva Kamaisky and Rachael Perkins Arenstein
- An evaluation of cold paste waxes used in conservation for outdoor bronze sculpture
Julie Wolfe, Cristina L. Simms, Alessa Gambardella, Rosie Grayburn, Arlen Heginbotham, Herant Khanjian, Joy Mazurek, Alan Phenix, Katrina Posner, Michael Schilling, Magdalena Solano, Maria Olivia Davalos Stanton, and Hope Welder
- Local treatment for outdoor painted metal sculptures: Designing suitable paints for retouching
Nikki van Basten, Ulysses Jackson, and Rachel Rivenc
Tips Session
- New applications for Orasol dyes
Julia Sybalsky, Fran Richie, Lisa Elkin, and Judith Levinson
- Thermatech cleaning unit
Justin Schwebler
- Passivating stainless steel on-site
Lucinda Linderman
- Volara shaping
Craig Deller