AIC's 43rd Annual Meeting: Full Schedule

9:00am EDT

(Workshop) Laser Cleaning of Surfaces: Artifacts and Architecture (Tuesday Only)

Limited Capacity seats available

This 2-day pre-session combines lectures, demonstrations, discussions, and hands-on practice. It is intended for a range of practitioners from specialties spanning architecture, objects, and paintings, from those with little or no experience to expert laser users.

On Tuesday, May 12 participants will learn about the various types of lasers available, safety, and how lasers have been used in the treatment of cultural property. Protocols for determining safe working parameters for different materials will be discussed, along with some of the most important current research on damage parameters. Several lasers will be available for demonstrations.

On Wednesday, May 13 participants will divide into smaller groups for practical, hands-on demonstrations and experience. A field trip will also be offered for those interested in cleaning of exterior architectural surfaces.

Choose to register for the One-Day Workshop (Tuesday only) or the Two-Day Workshop. Registration for this event is limited, so register now.

Instructors

Meg Abraham

Dr. Meg Abraham has BA degrees in History, Art History and Physics and a Masters in Archaeology from UCLA. She received a Doctorate from the Materials Department at Oxford University after completing her research in the incorporation of laser ablation into a Proton Induced X-Ray... Read More →

John Asmus

Research Physicist, Physics Dept., University of California, San Diego

John F. Asmus is on the Research Faculty of the Department of Physics at the University of California, San Diego and is associated with the Center for Advanced Nanotechnology. He earned his PhD. From the California Institute of Technology and is the co-founder of the Center for Art/Science... Read More →

Martin Cooper

Head of Conservation Division, Lynton Lasers Ltd

Dr Martin Cooper joined the conservation team at Lynton Lasers Ltd in 2013. He is well known in the laser conservation field, having completed a PhD in laser cleaning of stone sculpture in 1993 at Loughborough University in the UK. Dr Cooper spent twenty years working as a Conservation... Read More →

Prof. Adele de Cruz

Associate Aj.Professor, Duke University

Painting conservator, Conservation scientist, Inventor of use of Er:YAG laser in fine arts conservation.

Matt Cushman

Conservator of Paintings & Affiliated Assistant Professor, Winterthur Museum/University of Delaware

Matt Cushman is the Conservator of Paintings at Winterthur Museum and Affiliated Assistant Professor at the University of Delaware. Previously, Matt was a project conservator at Yale's Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage and Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at the Worcester... Read More →

Bartosz A. Dajnowski

Conservator, G.C. Laser Systems Inc.

Objects conservator Bartosz Dajnowski has an MS from the Winterthur/University of Delaware Masters Program in Art Conservation. He studied art, culture, and conservation at the Jagiellonian University in Poland, Studio Art Centers International in Florence, the Loyola Rome Center... Read More →

Pamela Hatchfield

Conservator, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Pamela Hatchfield is the Robert P. and Carol T. Henderson Head of Objects Conservation at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She received her Master’s degree in Art History and Certificate in Conservation from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, with an advanced level... Read More →

Holly Salmon

John L. and Susan K. Gardner Director of Conservation, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Holly Salmon is the John L. and Susan K. Gardner Director of Conservation at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum where she has worked for 15 years. She received her M.S. in Art Conservation from the Winterthur University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation in 2001. Her internships... Read More →

Tuesday May 12, 2015 9:00am - 5:00pm EDT
Ashe Auditorium 400 SE 2nd Ave, Miami, FL 33131

Workshop, Architecture, Objects

9:00am EDT

(Workshop) Laser Cleaning of Surfaces: Artifacts and Architecture (Tues and Wed)

Limited Capacity seats available

Instructors

Workshop, Architecture, Objects