Conference on History, Technology and Conservation alloys

Conference and workshop:

"Aluminum: History, Technology and Conservation"
Washington DC
April 7-11, 2014

Conference
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Washington, DC.
April 7-9, 2014

To register

    <URL:http://www.conservation-us.org/aluminum>

Workshop
April 10-11, 2014
Emil Buehler Conservation Laboratory
National Air and Space Museum
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
Chantilly, Virginia.

Further information:

    <URL:http://www.conservation-us.org/aluminum-workshop>

The organizers and partners for Aluminum: History, Technology and
Conservation are pleased to announce the speaker lineup for the
conference taking place on April 7-9, 2014 in Washington DC.  The
event marks the first ever conservation conference dedicated to the
material of aluminum.

Lyndsie Selwyn, Canadian Conservation Institute, Ottawa, will give
the opening keynote address on Monday April 7, 2014.  Featured
speakers are: Christian Degrigny, Haute Ecole de
Conservation-restauration Arc, Neuchatel; David Hallam, ICOM-CC
Metal Working Group Coordinator; Bruce Hinton, Monash University,
Melbourne; Rosa Lowinger, Lowinger and Associates, Florida; Ian
MacLeod, Western Australian Maritime Museum, Fremantle; Francois
Mirambet, Centre de Recherche et de Restauration des Musees de
France, Paris; Richard Pieper, Jan Hird Pokorny Associates, New
York.

The conference will also include the following speakers for a full
and engaging program (in alphabetical order):

    Jerrad Alexander
    Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center, Hutchinson
    "The Boneyard: The World's Largest Military Aircraft Repository"

    Louise Allen
    Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
    "The Use and Characterization of Aluminum Based Metallic Paints
    in Early Twentieth Century Paintings"

    George Bailey
    The Australian War Memorial, Canberra
    "A Critical Review of the 1996 Conservation Treatment of a World
    War Two Aircraft Carried Out at the Australian War Memorial"

    Clara Deck
    The Henry Ford Museum, Detroit
    "Deconstructing the Dymaxion House: Designing Survival
    Strategies for an Aluminum Tension Structure"

    Xsusha Flandro
    Jablonski Building Conservation, New York
    "Redesign: A Recipe for Results: Restoring Architectural
    Aluminum Finishes in Situ"

    Helen Ingalls
    Lunder Conservation Center, Washington DC
    "Materials Deterioration and Conservation of Aluminum Foil on
    James Hampton's Throne of the Third Heaven: All That Glitters is
    not Gold"

    Tracy Kamerer
    Henry Morrison Flagler Museum, Palm Beach
    and
    Scott W. Nolley
    Fine Art Conservation of Virginia, Richmond
    "Aluminum, the New Silver: Shining a Light on Gilded Age
    Decorative Surfaces"

    Daniel Lane
    Conservation Solutions, Inc., Washington DC
    "Restoration of the Aluminum Night Doors and Windows at the
    Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building, Washington,
    DC"

    Nicole Little
    Museum Conservation Institute, Washington DC
    "Instrumental Identification of Aluminum Alloys and Corrosion"

    Susan Maltby
    Maltby and Associates Inc., Toronto
    "The Stabilization of Malton's CF-100 All-Weather Jet: A Case
    Study"

    Mary Oehrlein
    Architect of the Capitol, Washington DC
    "In-situ Micro-abrasion Cleaning of a 1932 Cast Aluminum
    Porte-cochere"

    Achal Pandya
    Indira Gandhi Center for Arts, New Delhi
    "Corrosion Characteristics of 3000 Series Aluminium Alloy
    Exposed in Different Climatic Conditions (Pollution Zones) of
    India"

    Richard Russell
    NASA Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral
    "The History of Orbiter Corrosion Control (1981 - 2011)"


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