Full Schedule
Day 1
Wednesday, May 13, 2026
8am–12pm Pacific, 5pm–9pm Amsterdam
8am Opening Remarks
8:10am Session 1: History of Drawings Conservation
- Second Touches. Redrawing the Lines, Conserving the Idea in Early Modern Drawings
Dr. Alice Ottazzi, cultrice della materia, Università degli Studi di Torino
- Living Drawings: Pounce Papers and Workshop Practices of Preservation in Qajar Iran
Seyed Abdolreza Hosseini, doctoral researcher, University of Vienna
- Cropped, Mounted and Fixed: Degas’s Relationship with Paper Conservation
Lucia Elledge, Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Dedalus Foundation Fellow in Conservation, New York University Institute of Fine Arts
9:10am Break
9:30am Session 2: Methodologies
- Traces as Testimony in the Conservation of Drawings
Margaret Holben Ellis, professor emerita of paper conservation, New York University Institute of Fine Arts; Lisa Conte, assistant professor of paper conservation; co-chair of the Conservation Center, New York University Institute of Fine Arts
- To do or not to do, that is the question
Ilaria Camerini, Ales spa, Archivio di Stato di Rieti
- Image Reintegration in Graphic Art Conservation: Methodological Reflections and Practical Experience
Gabriella Pace, head of paper conservation laboratory, Istituto Centrale per la Grafica, Ministry of Culture, Rome; Miriam Pitocco, Paper Conservator, Istituto Centrale per il Restauro, Ministry of Culture, Rome
10:30am Session 3: Case Studies, Part One
- Drawing by the Circle of Filippino Lippi’s Head of Hercules Covered by a Lion Skin: Interaction of Art Historical and Physicochemical Methods of Analysis
Liubava Christova, curator of Italian drawings of the XVI–XVIII centuries, The State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
- Between a Disaster and the Work of Art – Issues Surrounding the Restoration of Lagoa Henriques' Burned Drawings
Adriana Ferreira and Alice Nogueira Alves, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Belas-Artes, Centro de Investigação e de Estudos em Belas-Artes (CIEBA), Largo da Academia Nacional de Belas-Arte
- Conserving the Drawings of Brett Whiteley
Analiese Treacy, manager of paper and frames, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
- Irrevocable Choices: Peeling Back the Layered History of Stradanus’ Sketches
Caitlin Condell, associate curator & head of Drawings, Prints & Graphic Design Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York City; Heather Hendry, senior paper conservator, Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts, Philadelphia
11:50am Closing Remarks
Day 2
Thursday, May 14, 2026
8am–11am Pacific, 5pm–8pm Amsterdam
8am Welcome
8:05am Session 4: Case Studies, Part Two
- Damaged and Beautiful: Reconstructing the Conservation History of Canaletto’s Drawings
Camila Pietrabissa, PhD, adjunct lecturer in art history, Università di Venezia
- Risen from the Ashes: Treatment of a Drawing by Pirro Ligorio
Kimberly Schenck, former head of paper conservation, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
- On Drawings by Daniela Sissi Olivieri: Conservation Challenges of Rapidly Changing Industrial Materials Between Diagnostic Studies and the Principles of Sissi’s Theory of Parallel Anatomy
Beatrice Marseglia, paper conservator and PhD candidate, Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna
- Excavating Four Possible Clouet Drawings from Layers of 'Restoration’
Eve Menei, independent paper conservator, Paris
- Ethical Considerations in the Conservation of Two Large-Scale Architectural Drawings by Boris Zinserling
Zuzanna Ciepielewska, paper and leather conservation, Museum of the Polish Army, Warsaw; Magdalena Grenda-Kurmanow, PhD, faculty of conservation and restoration of works of art, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
9:45am Break
10:05am Session 5: History of Drawings Conservation, Institutional Histories
- Beyond the Science: A Personal Exploration of Restorers in the Rijksprentenkabinet (1933–1964)
Diane Coetzer, senior project manager, Erasmus Centre for Women and Organisations, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
- From Artistic Intuition to Scientific Discourse: Ethics and Professionalization in Paper Conservation Education at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (1965–2000)
Dr. Sigrid Eyb-Green, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna; Andreas Hartl, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna; Catherine Bouvier, private practitioner
- Celebrating at 75: Paper Conservation at the Morgan Library
Reba Fishman Snyder, Walter and Constance Burke Paper Conservator, Thaw Conservation Center, The Pierpont Morgan Library and Museum, New York City
- Narrating Practice: Using Oral Histories to Document and Examine the History of Drawing Conservation
Lindsey Tyne, conservation librarian, Barbara Goldsmith Preservation and Conservation Department, New York University Libraries; Lisa Conte, assistant professor of paper conservation; co-chair of the Conservation Center, New York University Institute of Fine Arts; Kayhan Qaiser, graduate student, Experimental Humanities and Social Engagement, New York University
11:25am Q&A, Closing Remarks, and Reflections
