WAAC Annual Meeting

Papers scheduled for the 1997 Annual Meeting of the Western
Association for Art Conservation (WAAC) are listed below. The
meeting runs October 26 through 29 in Phoenix, Arizona.

For more information, access WAAC's Web site:
<URL:http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/waac/>

To register or to obtain further details, contact WAAC's Secretary/
Treasurer, Chris Stavroudis: cstavrou<-a t->ix< . >netcom< . >com

Monday, October 27th, Heard Museum Auditorium

    Liz Welsh
        Introduction to Rock Art

    Nicholas Stanley-Price
        Conservation through Management: New Approaches to
        Preserving Rock Art

    Ron Dorn
       Role of Natural Coatings in the Preservation of Rock Surfaces

    Todd Bostwick
       Rock Art Site Management: Urban Parks

    Gerald Dawaventewa
       Petroglyphs on the Hopi Reservation

    Marietta Davenport
       Rock Art Site Management: Federal Agencies

    John Griswold
       Ongoing Field Research in Rock Art Conservation

    Claire Dean
       Pictographs, Petroglyphs, and the Conservator: Between a Rock
       and a Hard Place

    David Scott
       Pigment Studies  from Rock Art to James Ensor

    Laura Downey
       Images of the Southwest: A Turn-of-the-Century Album

    Helen Alten
       Outdoor Totem Pole Conservation in Alaska

Tuesday, October 28th, Heard Museum Auditorium

    Carmen Bria, Jr.
        1994 Graland Country Day School Murals, ca. 1940,
        by Artist Allen Tupper True

    Paul Pihl
        Inuit Soapstone Carvings

    Nancy Odegaard
        The Spot Test Directory for Materials Characterization

    Jessica Johnson
        Evaluation of Soluble Salt Content in Soils: Preliminary
        Results from Three Archaeological Sites in Turkey

    Susanne Friend
        To Be Announced

    Alise Bowler
        Oil Paintings on Paper by 19th-c. Artist Conrad Wise Chapman

    Monica Jaworski
        Brushes for Varnishing

    Helen Alten
        Field Education for Conservators

    John Hirx
        The Examination, Treatment, and Preservation of  an Italian
        15th-c. Gilded Silver Processional Cross

    Ron Stark and Chris Stavroudis (unconfirmed)
        Conservation of Film Cels: Technology and Philosophy

Wednesday, October 29th, Phoenix Art Museum

    Leslie Rainer and Gaetano Palumbo
        Testing the System: Digital Recording of the Condition of
        "America Tropical," a Mural by David Alfaro Siqueiros

    Penny Fowler
       The Japanese Textile Collection at Taliesin West

    Glenn Wharton
       The Role of the Conservator in the Design of Public Art

    Neil Cockerline
       Conservation of Paintings Produced for Mechanical
       Reproduction by the American Illustrator Joseph Christian
       Leyendecker

    Greg Esser and Glenn Wharton
       Guided Field Trip (Tour) of Contemporary Art Works in the
       City of Phoenix Collection (many situated outdoors)

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