Past Annual Meetings – 2021
Final Schedule
2021 MRCG CONFERENCE
SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 12TH
2:00pm – 4:00pm
Emerging Conservation Professionals Network Portfolio Day
Indiana State Library – Indiana Author’s Room
9:30am – 4:00pm
Bruker XRF Workshop
Indiana State Museum – Conservation Lab
5:00pm – 8:00pm
Reception and Program at Eiteljorg Museum Café
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SATURDAY NOVEMBER 13TH
INDIANA STATE LIBRARY – INDIANA STATE LIBRARY HISTORY REFERENCE ROOM
8:00am – 8:30am
Registration
8:30am – 8:35am
Welcome
8:35am – 9:05am
KEYNOTE
Tory Schendel
Evansville Museum of Arts, History & Science
9:05am – 9:55am
Heather Calloway
Indiana University
“Not Your Grandpa’s Basement: Indiana University’s Collections”
Roxy Sperber
Newfield’s Indianapolis Museum of Art
“Cataloging in a Digital Age, reflections from the Clowes Collection Catalog”
9:55am – 10:25am
Coffee Break
10:25am – 11:45am
Charity Counts – Association of Midwest Museum
Seth Irwin – Indiana State Library
“Disaster Response Resources for Midwest Museums”
Daniela Leonard and Liz Rudnick
Reanda Art Conservation, LLC
“Dancing on the head of a Pindell: Developing a preservation plan for a large unstretched canvas painting at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago”
Marieka Kaye (Virtual Presentation)
University of Michigan Library
“Birch Bark in U-M Library Collections”
11:45am – 1:15pm
Lunch Break and Tours
1:15pm – 2:30pm
Christina Bisulca
Detroit Institute for the Arts
“A Survey of Asian Painting Materials at the DIA”
Rachel Freeman (TIPS)
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
“A Paper Conservator's Guide to G -10”
Wendy Partridge (TIPS)
Intermuseum Conservation Association
“Addressing cadmium corrosion on ICA spring stretchers”
Ann Lindsey (Virtual Presentation)
University of Chicago Library
“Experimental Papermaking: Gypsum in Paper from 1787”
2:30pm – 2:45pm
Coffee Break
2:45pm – 4:00pm
Karen Zukor
Zukor Art Conservation
“Undocumented Worker”
Cristiana Acerbi Ginatta
Arte Viva, LLC
“The Tale of a Mural: Lost, Rediscovered, and Its Meaning for the Community”
Stephanie Spence
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
“Reviving the Silver Splendor: Replicating A Royal Parasol”
4:00pm – 4:15pm
Coffee Break
4:15pm – 5:30pm
Jen Hunt Johnson
Hesburgh Libraries, University of Notre Dame
“Form, function, and influence: preserving the passage of time through anachronistic bindings”
Marissa Bartz
Cleveland Museum of Art
“Non-invasive Technical Analysis of Illuminated Manuscript Leaves from the W.D. Jordan Rare Book and Special Collections, Queen’s University: A Collaborative Project”
Jim Canary
Indiana University Library
“The Lilly Library Then and Now”
6:00pm – 9:00pm
Reception and Program at the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library
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SUNDAY NOVEMBER 14TH
INDIANA STATE LIBRARY HISTORY REFERENCE ROOM
8am – 9:30am
MRCG Business Meetin
9:30am – 11:10am
Jennifer Hein
Preservation Museum Conservator
“Painted Or Embroidered Silk in A State Collection For 150 Years”
Elena Mars
Cleveland Museum of Art
“Early Days: The Conservation of a Monumental Giovanni della Robbia Polychromed Terracotta Relief”
Christy O'Grady
Children's Museum of Indianapolis
“Balancing Preservation and Accessibility at The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis”
Maren Rozumalski
Hesburgh Libraries, University of Notre Dame
“Bespoke Box-making: Designing and Adapting Standard Boxing Styles for Non-standard Items”
11:10am – 11:30am
Coffee Break / Box Lunch
11:30pm – 12:45pm
Danielle Creech
University Libraries, Washington University
“One Arachnophobe's Quest to Implement a Pragmatic Integrated Pest Management Program”
Kris Cnossen
Winterthur Art Conservation Program
“Mixing Solutions: Combining Paper and Textile Approaches to Treat Iron-mordanted Printed Cotton”
Seth Irwin
Indiana State Library
“‘BONG HiTS 4 JESUS’: Conserving a Controversy”
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