ab0bfaaf-2504-4996-9b32-111bf71171fd Sofie Dierickx PhD Student Ghent University Ghent, Belgium Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Sofie Dierickx graduated as wood conservator in 2018. She acquired a passion for ethnographical heritage through her internship at the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren and a traineeship at the Nationaal Museum voor Wereldculturen in the Netherlands. Currently she is working as a PhD student on the TOCOWO project (Tomography of Congolese Wooden Objects), exploring the possibilities of x-ray tomography as a non-invasive alternative for wood species identification of museum objects. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2021 Poster Presenter TOCOWO - Tomography of Congolese Wooden Objects Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS ABM Seminar Series - March 2023 Seminar Series Presenter “Non-invasive” techniques: X-ray tomography of Congolese Wooden objects Explore PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

132bed70-9ab4-461f-9cca-473be2dc8ddd Lauren Audi Genomics Lab Manager American Museum of Natural History New York, NY, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Lauren Audi is the Senior Genomics Lab Manager at the American Museum of Natural History and a plant biologist. In this position she supports the interdisciplinary research of curators, scientists, students and affiliates at the museum. This includes providing expertise in molecular biology and genetic techniques across a wide discipline of research questions -- from evolution, ecology, conservation and disease detection. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2023 Participant Art Bio Matters 2023 Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM 2021 Poster Presenter DNA Barcoding of Northwest Coast Objects: A method for fostering reciprocal relationships between museums and communities Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

786974e0-2e75-45a3-87ca-47c2b7e45f5b Barbara Berrie Head of Scientific Research National Gallery of Art Washington, DC, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Dr. Barbara Berrie’s work has focused on artists’ materials and methods. Her publications are varied and reflect her wide range of interests and responsibilities. She is particularly interested in painters’ materials and methods, and investigates artists use of color through the lens of scientific analysis. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2018 Steering Committee Proteins: Building Blocks of Art Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

7da3276a-e2f7-486f-bcfb-527ba5f10afc Patricia Marroquin Norby Associate Curator of Native American Art The American Wing The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Patricia Marroquin Norby (Purépecha) oversees the American Wing’s Native American art collection. An award-winning scholar and museum leader, she previously served as Senior Executive and Assistant Director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian-New York and as Director of the D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies at the Newberry in Chicago. Her forthcoming book, Water, Bones, and Bombs examines 20th-century American Indian art and environmental disputes in northern New Mexico. She co-edited “Aesthetic Violence: Art and Indigenous Ways of Knowing,” American Indian Culture and Research Journal (2015). She earned her PhD at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2021 Invited Speaker Art Bio Matters 2021 Virtual Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

6a96f364-c6f2-4a7c-9dc2-7585cfdec8e5 Nylah Byrd NEA Book Fellow Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts Philadelphia, PA, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Nylah Byrd is a NEA Book Fellow at the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts. She received her B.A. with Honors in Archaeology from Stanford University in 2018 and her M.S. in Art Conservation from the Winterthur/ University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation in 2022. She is currently a Core Group member of the AIC Ethics Core Documents Revision Task Force and a founding member of the Black Art Conservators group. Her research interests include equity and inclusion in conservation, preserving ephemera, and fabrication of inorganic objects. She is particularly passionate about public engagement and community connections within art conservation and cultural heritage institutions in the United States. Her long-term career goal is to practice people-centered conservation as a community conservator. She wishes to offer her conservation skills to a local marginalized community (especially if Black and/or Indigenous) for the preservation and continuation of their culture through caring for objects. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2023 Community Coordinator Art Bio Matters 2023 Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

93ebfb1b-ea4f-4856-921b-5c7ffdd7eca5 Pamela Hatchfield Head of Objects Conservation (emertis) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Boston, MA, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Pamela Hatchfield serves as Project Coordinator for Held in Trust, a collaboration between the National Endowment for Humanities and the Foundation for Advancement in Conservation, evaluating preservation and conservation needs in the United States. She is Emerita Head of Objects Conservation at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, a Fellow of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, the International Institute for Conservation and of the American Academy in Rome. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2021 Participant Art Bio Matters 2021 Virtual Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS ABM Round Table - March 2024 Round Table Presenter ABM Round Table - March 2024 Question about an outdoor sculpture compromised by a myriad of microbiological growth and how to evaluate the risk of further damage from these species. Explore PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

e1a7d865-56dd-4d11-b898-4e9a7c12b811 Constantine Petridis Chair Department of Arts of Africa and the Americas Curator of African Art The Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, IL, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Constantine (Costa) Petridis has served as chair and curator of Arts of Africa at the Art Institute of Chicago since November 2016. A corresponding member of the Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences, he earned his PhD in art history from Ghent University in his native Belgium. Prior to coming to Chicago, he held research, teaching, and curatorial positions at the Fund for Scientific Research - Flanders, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Case Western Reserve University, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and the Indianapolis Museum of Art. The author of several journal articles, book chapters, exhibition catalogues, and monographs, his latest publications include the book Luluwa: Central African Art Between Heaven and Earth (2018) and the edited volume Speaking of Objects: African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago (2020). ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2021 Steering Committee Art Bio Matters 2021 Virtual Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM 2018 Participant Art Bio Matters 2018 Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

b791ebec-ae81-4d1b-97b9-5b614f72a9b9 Annissa Malvoisin Post-doctoral fellow African Art Brooklyn Museum New York, NY, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Annissa’s research specializes in Egyptology, Nubian archaeology, and Museum Studies. Her doctoral thesis investigates the ceramic production and trade industry during Meroitic Nubia and its potential far-reaching networks linking the Nile Valley to Iron Age West African cultures. She examines trade networks by identifying artistic similarities on pottery which she combines with piecing together the objects’ biography in order to better understand Nubian collections in North American museums. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2021 Participant Art Bio Matters 2021 Virtual Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

14c23f1e-09a7-4598-97db-6e56b70e39c1 Clara Granzotto Associate Conservation Scientist Scientific Research, Department of Conservation and Science The Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, IL, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Clara Granzotto is associate conservation scientist in the Conservation and Science department at the Art Institute of Chicago. She received her Ph.D. in chemical sciences from the University of Venice, Italy, and the University of Lille, France. Clara conducted post-doctoral research at the Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts at Northwestern University in Evanston (IL), at the scientific department of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She specializes in the analysis of traditional binding media in works of art by mass spectrometry, with a focus on polysaccharides and proteins, to understand artists’ technique, artworks appearance and condition. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2023 Team Presenter Big Data from Tiny Samples: unveiling the use of organic materials in the Visconti-Sforza Co-authored with Frank Trujillo. Read the Abstract. Explore Full Abstract ABM 2021 Team Presenter Accretion, accumulation, encrustation? Reconciling scientific and curatorial perspectives when reporting on surface materials on African sculptures Explore Full Abstract ABM 2018 Participant Art Bio Matters 2018 Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

249f7104-f4b6-4329-86d6-10518faba33c Tuuli Kasso PhD Student Beast2Craft and ArcHives University of Copenhagen Copenhagen, Denmark Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2021 Team Presenter ArcHives: Beeswax as a Biomolecular Archive (an exploratory investigation) Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS