CONSERVATION CENTER 50th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
Conservation Center 50th Anniversary Celebration, October 15 – 16, 2010
Click here to download anniversary program
Friday, October 15
10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Tours of local conservation labs, including the Morgan Library & Museum, American Museum of Natural History, Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Brooklyn Museum, and a Conservation Center Open House
1:00 pm
Welcome Remarks – Patricia Rubin, Judy & Michael Steinhardt Director, Institute of Fine Arts
1:15 pm
“A Laboratory for Art: Harvard’s Fogg Museum and the Emergence of Conservation in America, 1900–1950” – Francesca G. Bewer, Research Curator, Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, Harvard Art Museum
1:45pm
"How It Began: A Bow to Those Who Made It Possible for New York University to Open a Conservation Training Program in 1960" – Jean D. Portell, Brooklyn, NY
2:15 pm
Out to lunch – Norbert S. Baer, Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Conservation
2:30 pm
The Saga of Seventy-Eighth: An Ode by Joyce Hill Stoner ‘73
2:45 pm
Radical Initiators: The Basement Years (1960-1971)
3:15 pm
BREAK
3:45 pm
Free Energy: Growing Entropy (1972-1983)
4:15 pm
People, places & parties – Margaret Holben Ellis ‘79, Eugene Thaw Professor of Paper Conservation
4:30 pm
Catalyzing Change: The Chan House Gang (1984-1995)
4:45 pm
Curriculum Post-Plenderleith – Michele Marincola ‘90, Sherman Fairchild Chairman and Professor of Conservation
5:00 pm
Autoxidation and Expansion (1996-2006)
5:30 pm
Current Student Remarks – Julia Sybalsky ‘12
5:45pm
The Best Is Yet To Come – Hannelore Roemich, Acting Chairman and Professor of Conservation Science
6:00 pm
Evening Reception in the Loeb Room
For further information, please contact Oliver Luisi at ojl2@nyu.edu, (212) 992-5888.
Conservation Center 50th Anniversary Appeal
Click here to download the appeal form
As we gather to celebrate 50 years of excellence, leadership and tradition at the Conservation Center, we are eager to enlist your support in building a special 50th Anniversary Fund to help ensure the continued success and growth of the Center for future generations. Our ability to provide the highest quality graduate study in art conservation, attract top students and offer them essential support is only made possible by the generosity and stewardship of our alumni and friends.
Your contribution to the Conservation Center’s 50th Anniversary Fund will be dedicated to the support of conservation students including tuition, stipends, research and conference attendance. Presentations for this upcoming year include:
Our goal for this special 50th Anniversary Fund is to raise $50,000 for the celebration year. Your gift plays a vital role in supporting the success of the Conservation Center and the Institute of Fine Arts. With any donation received before October 1, 2010, you can have your name added to the celebration program. Thank you
in advance for your support.
