Proceedings of Objects and Objects + Architecture Specialty Group Sessions
48th Annual Meeting – Virtual; Summer 2020
Conservation: Reactive and Proactive
Edited by Raina Chao, Kari Dodson, Sarah Waddell, and Mary Wilcop, with Fran Ritchie, Program Chair
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Program Chair’s Foreword
Fran Ritchie
Postprints abstracts
Conservation in Action: Japanese Buddhist Sculpture in a New Light
Linsly Boyer, Evelyn Mayberger, and Abigail Hykin
It Gets Complicated: The Treatment of Zayamaca #4 by Alvin Loving
LaStarsha McGarity and Raina Chao
Poultice Desalination Using Buffered Rigid Gel with Ion Exchange Resin
Jessica Abel, Brittany Dinneen, and Renee A. Stein
Saving Moth Man: Conserving John Hampson’s Insect Art
Nora Frankel
Preserving Monumental Plaster Casts in a Historic Building: A Conservation Approach at the Victoria & Albert Museum London
Sarah Healey-Dilkes and Mariam Sonntag
Reactive, Proactive and Interactive – The Conservation and Reinstallation of the Cassiobury House Staircase at The Met
Mecka Baumeister, Lisa Ackerman, Nick Pedemonti, and Ivo Kipre
Unpublished presentation abstracts
Tenements, Tourists, and Treatments: Managing Visitor Impact at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum
Stephanie Hoagland
Preservation in Paradise: Working with the Collection at Shangri La
Kent Severson
Preventive and Proactive Conservation at the Gilded Age Mansions of Newport, Rhode Island
Patricia Miller
The Dark Side of the Gilded Age: An Investigation into Soot Deposition at the Vanderbilt Mansion
Margaret Breuker
Respecting the Service / Respecting the Surface: Treatment of the Copper Alloy USS Utah Ship’s Bell and the Development of Treatment Procedures for Historic Metal Surfaces in the Naval History and Heritage Command Conservation Branch
Karl Knauer, David Krop, Melissa Swanson, Yoonjo Lee, and Abigail Preston
Coating Iron: A Reactive and Proactive Solution
Anna Funke, Gyllian Porteous, Flavia Puoti, Johanna Rivera-Diaz, Justin Schwebler, Chris McKenzie, and Claire Achtyl
The Treatment and Reinstallation of Neo-Assyrian Northwest Palace Reliefs at the Brooklyn Museum
Victoria Schussler, Tina March, and Lisa Bruno