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
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