Public Programs @ The Institute

A symposium in honor of Michele Marincola, Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor of Conservation The Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, on the occasion of her retirement.

Saturday, November 15, 2025, 9:45am - 6:30pm

The James B. Duke House
One East 78th Street

Program

9:45am
Welcome
Edward Sullivan
Helen Gould Shepard Professor in the History of Art, the Institute of Fine Arts and College of Arts and Sciences

Introductions by Jennifer Kim, Second-year Objects Conservation Student

10:00am
Margaret Holben Ellis
Eugene Thaw Professor Emerita of Paper Conservation, Conservation Center
Memo to File: Marincola, Michele

10:15am
Norbert Baer
Hagop Kevorkian Professor Emeritus of Conservation, Conservation Center
Plus Ça Change

10:30am
Jonathan Hay
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Professor of Fine Arts, Institute of Fine Arts
Modularity in Northern Song Painting Formats

10:45am
Robert Slifkin
Edith Kitzmiller Professor of the History of Fine Arts, Institute of Fine Arts
Dim Monuments of On and Off Art: The Ethics and Exhibitability of Minimalist Art

11:00-11:30am
Break

Introductions by Adriana Vergara, Third-year Time-based Media and Objects Conservation Student

11:30am
Sanchita Balachandran
Director, Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute, Smithsonian Institution
The Ancient World in Technicolor: Polychromy in Ancient Athenian Ceramics

11:45am
Sarah Barack
Head of Conservation and Senior Objects Conservator, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Kate Wight Tyle
Conservator, Brooklyn Museum
Jessica Walthew
Heritage conservator; Doctoral candidate, University of Glasgow
Conserving Design: the Case for an Expanded Preservation Approach

12:00pm
Adrienne Gendron
Assistant Objects Conservator, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Caterina de Julianis: Meditations on a Little-known Female Artist and the Power of Wax

12:15pm
Pamela Hatchfield
Head of Objects Conservation Emerita, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Connecting the Dots on a Late Classic Mayan Cylinder Vase: Yajawte' K’inish Presents an Enigma

12:30-2:30pm
Lunch

Introductions by Rebecca Rosen, Third-year Objects Conservation Student

2:30pm
Emy Kim
Associate Professor of Artifacts Conservation, Department of Art History and Art Conservation, Queen's University
Feeling with Fire: Early Welders' Skill and Bodily Knowledge

2:45pm
Soon Kai Poh
Special Advisor, Programs and Operations, The Samuel H. Kress Foundation
Revisiting an Early Jean Arp Plaster Sculpture

3:00pm
Andrew Wolf
Associate Conservator, 9/11 Memorial & Museum
Interpreting the Original through Facsimile

3:15pm
Lucretia Kargere
Principle Conservator for The Cloisters and Conservator for Medieval sculptures at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Objects Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Reveal and Conceal: The Material Transformation of a Vierge Ouvrante

3:30-4:00pm
Break

Introductions by Alayna Bone, Third-year Objects Conservation Student

4:00pm
Emmanuelle Mercier
Head, Polychrome Wood Sculpture Studio, Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA, Koninklijk Instituut voor het Kunstpatrimonium – Institut Royal du Patrimoine Artistique), Belgium
Material Memories of Splendor. Revelations and Limits in the Treatment of a Brussels Altarpiece

4:15pm
Noëlle L. W. Streeton
Professor of Conservation, Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History, University of Oslo
A Pig’s Bladder, a Half-Litre of Liquid, Little Fish and Simulated Tears – Towards a Reconstruction of a Late-Medieval Weeping Sculpture

4:30pm
Cybele Tom
Objects Conservator; Doctoral candidate, Department of Art History, University of Chicago
The Woman from Inner Space: Polychromy and Scholarship as Sustenance for the Soul

4:45pm
George Wheeler
Senior Consulting Scientist, Highbridge Materials Consulting
…And Now from Another Perspective

5:00pm
Debra Hess Norris
Unidel Henry Francis du Pont Chair, Professor of Photograph Conservation Director, Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation
Honoring Michele Marincola and the Evolution of Conservation Education

5:15pm
Presentation and Concluding Remarks

Natalie Naor, Second-year Book and Paper Conservation Student

Minyoung Kim, Third-year Paper Conservation Student

Lisa Conte
Assistant Professor of Paper Conservation, Co-Chair of the Conservation Center

Matt Hayes
Assistant Professor of Paintings Conservation, Co-Chair of the Conservation Center

5:30
Reception