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- OSG OFFICERS 2005-2006
- Chair
- Ann Boulton
aboulton@artbma.org
- Program Chair
- Howard Wellman
hwellman@mdp.state.md.us
- Emeritus Chair
- Katie Holbrow
kholbrow@williamstownart.org
- Secretary/Treasurer
- Jenifer Bosworth
Jeniferbosworth@hotmail.com
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Nominating Committee, Chair
- Sheila Payaqui
spayaqui@hotmail.com
- Archaeological Discussion Group, Chair
- Emily Williams
ewilliams@cwf.org
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Certification Committee, Chair
- Claire Dean
clairedean@aol.com
- OSG Archivist
- Lisa Bruno
lbruno@hotmail.com
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Outreach Committee, Co-Chairs
- Rachel Arenstein
rachelarenstein@aol.com
Emily Williams
ewilliams@cwf.org
- Publications Committee, Chair
- Elizabeth Hendrix
ehendrix@mit.edu
- Website Committee, Chair
- Vanessa Muros
vmuros@gmail.com
MEETINGS AND CONFERENCES
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AIC's 35th
Annual Meeting
"Fakes, Forgeries, and Fabrications"
April 16-20, 2007
Richmond, Virginia
Mon. April 16-Tues. April 17th-workshops and tours
Wed. April 18-General Session , Specialty
Group sessions, Poster session and exhibit hall
Thurs. April 19-General session, Specialty group Sessions
Fri. April 20-Specialty Group sessions
Objects Specialty Group Session
Thursday April 19
7:10-8:00 a.m.
OSG Archaeological Discussion Group Business Meeting
OSG Archaeological
Discussion Group Morning Session
8:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Morning Session
Introductory Remarks
Howard Wellman and Emily Williams
Negotiatiating Encounters with Suspect Artifacts
Kathy Tubb
Conservation and Looted Art: Issues Concerning Provenance and Good Title when Conserving or Restoring Art
Lawrence Kaye
Heritage Conservation as Public Diplomacy: The Role of the Department of State in Protecting Archaeological
Ethnological Heritage Around the World
Margaret MacLean
Conservators, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Enforcement of Heritage Law
James McAndrew
The Art Loss Register
David Shillingford
A Professional Conundrum: The Conservation of Illicitly Recovered Artifacts-An Arcaheological Perspective
Michael Barber
Entangled Objects: The Politics of Perservation and Museum Building in the Early Twentieth Century
Sanchita Balachandran
Created Discovery?: The Role of Conservation in "Historic" Discovery
Doug Currie
Panel Discussion
Jean Portell, Moderator
6:00-8:00 p.m.
OSG Dinner, followed by Business Meeting
(ticket required)
Friday April 20
8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
OSG Morning Session
Introductory Remarks
Ann Boulton
From Delicious to Not Quite Right
Steve Mellor
Thermoluminescence Dating for European Sculpture: Past Experiences
Jane Bassett
Only Time will Tell: Examination and Analysis of a German Watch
Meg Craft
Refining the Database for White Marbles: Isotope Analysis of Houdon's Marble Busts
Katherine Holbrow
From Fake to Fabulous: Redeeming "Spurious" Works of Art
Terry Drayman-Weisser
Altered States: Henri Matisse's Sculpture Aurora
Ann Boulton
1:30-5:30 p.m.
OSG Afternoon Session
Aquamanile, They're so Darn Cute Who Wouldn't Want a Copy?
Julie Lauffenburger
Faking PreColumbian Artifacts
Catherine Sease
Fabricating the Body
Renata Peters and Lucia Dacome
3D Scanning Deer Stones on the Mongolian Steppe
Harriet F. Beaubien
A New Option for Marble Cleaning
Kory Berrett, Virginia Naude, and Richard Wolbers
Treatment of a WPA Era Topographical Map of the State of Louisiana
Shelley Reisman Paine, James Bernstein, Richard Wolbers, and Mary Zimmerman
A Progress Report on the Oceanic Galleries Reinstallation Project at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Amy Jones, Beth Edelstein, and Linsly Boyer
NEWS AND INFO
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Outreach Committee
This OSG committee was formed to promote awareness and
understanding of conservation as a profession. The Committee is currently collecting and
sharing conservators' strategies for education related professions and the general public.
Examples of useful and creative outreach efforts by OSG members can be reached through the following link(s).
www.MuseumPests.net: Building an interdisciplinary on-line community
Rachael Perkins Arenstein, Richard Monk, Neil Duncan, Chris Norris and Lisa Elkin
TIPS AND TREATMENTS
A Short Bibliography on the issue of yellowing and other side effects
during Nd:YAG laser-cleaning
compiled by Carole Dignard,
Objects Conservator, Canadian Conservation Institute
A bibliography based on the paper “Nd:YAG Laser Cleaning: Further Developments on the Yellowing Issue” presented at the OSG Session “Demonstrations and Tips Regarding Cleaning” of the AIC 32nd Annual Meeting,
Portland, OR, June 12, 2004
NMAI LIVING: Moving a la Martha
Rachel Perkins Arenstein, Colleen Brady, Norine Carroll, Jen French, Emily Kaplan, Angela Yvarra McGrew, Ashley McGrew, Scott Merritt, Leslie Williamson
National Museum of the American Indian
The handouts from the NMAI presentation at the 2003 AIC Meeting, OSG Session are now available to be downloaded. You can find the four handouts from the tips session below. The files are available in .pdf format and require Adobe Acrobat read them.
If you do not already have a copy of Acrobat you can download it for free at www.adobe.com/acrobat.
Submissions, comments, suggestions? vmuros@gmail.com
last updated: April 2, 2007
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