Joelle Wickens is the Director of the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation (WUDPAC) and an Assistant Professor of Preventive Conservation in the Department of Art Conservation at the University of Delaware. As WUDPAC Director, her responsibilities focus on curriculum oversight and support of student and faculty learning and teaching. Recent efforts in these… Read more »
Born in Santiago, Chile, Daniela Rivera received her BFA from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in 1996 and her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts, Boston in 2006. She is currently an Associate Professor of Studio Art at Wellesley College. She has exhibited widely in Latin American cities including… Read more »
Kate Moomaw-Taylor is the Chief Conservator at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, where she oversees the Susan and David Goode Center for Advanced Study in Art Conservation. The center’s staff includes conservators, conservation technicians, and mount makers, specializing in the care of paintings, objects, paper, photographs, contemporary art, and time-based media. From 2011-2025, she… Read more »
Marie Watt is an American artist whose work draws from history, biography, protofeminism, and Indigenous principles. She is concerned with the intersection of history, community and storytelling, and addresses how multi-generational and cross-disciplinary conversations create a lens for understanding connectedness to place, one another, and the universe. Ms. Watt holds an MFA in Painting and… Read more »
Kelly McHugh is the Head of Conservation at the National Museum of the American Indian. Prior she served as the Head of the Collections Care and Stewardship department and as an Objects Conservator in the NMAI Conservation department. She began working for the museum in 1996 at NMAI’s Research Branch facility in NY. Kelly focuses… Read more »
Daisy Nam is the director and curator of CCA Wattis Institute of Contemporary Art in San Francisco, which opens their new galleries on the expanded campus in Fall of 2024. Previously, she was at Ballroom Marfa, a contemporary art space dedicated to supporting artists through residencies, commissions, and exhibitions, first as the curator in 2020 and then the… Read more »
Dr. Rosanna Flouty is Director of NYU’s Museum Studies program at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and Clinical Associate Professor. She holds over twenty-five years of museum experience, including at The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, Art21, BMW Guggenheim Lab and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. She has also completed year-long… Read more »
Narayan Khandekar is the Director of the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies at the Harvard Art Museums, and Lecturer on the History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University. He received a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of Melbourne and a Post-graduate Diploma in the Conservation of Easel Paintings from the Courtauld Institute… Read more »
Andrea Hanley is the Director of Programming at the Native Arts & Cultures Foundation (NACF). She is dedicated to the work of contemporary Native American artists and the Native American fine art field. Hanley has over thirty years of experience in the field including National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., as… Read more »
Jay Krueger received a BFA in Printmaking and a BA in Art History from Washington University in St Louis, and an MA with a certificate of advanced study in painting conservation from the State University of New York, Cooperstown Graduate Program. In 1992, Mr. Krueger was appointed senior conservator of modern paintings at the National Gallery of… Read more »
Richard Cándida Smith is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, Berkeley. He has published seven books and over forty essays in publications from the United States, Brazil, Mexico, Spain, France, the Netherlands, and Britain. His work has explored arts and literary networks, movements, and institutions in the United States, with an emphasis… Read more »
Steven O’Banion is the Director of Conservation at Glenstone, responsible for comprehensively addressing the conservation needs of Glenstone’s collection. Steven graduated from Middlebury College with a major in Biochemistry and a minor in the History of Art and Architecture. After completing pre-program internships at the Museum of Modern Art, the New York City Department of… Read more »