c299af86-22da-4890-a051-5101feff087e Martha Singer Principal Material Whisperer LLC New York, NY, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Martha Singer is an art conservator who specializes in modern and contemporary sculpture in the New York City area. She is responsible for the Nevelson Chapel as well as public and private collections that feature indoor and outdoor contemporary art. Martha received a BA from Bard College and a diploma in conservation from New York University. Martha has published on modern artists, their intentions and working techniques. Martha is a Fellow of the AIC. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2023 Participant Art Bio Matters 2023 Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

b7dc7019-3f88-4634-9ab0-21b0855675ac Trish Biers Curator Cambridge, UK Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Trish is the Curatorial Manager of the Duckworth laboratory (biological anthropology) in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge. She teaches in the Department about ethics, repatriation, treatment of the dead, and osteology. She is currently the Museum Representative, on the Board of Trustees, British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology (BABAO) and organises their Taskforce on the Trade and Sale of Human Remains. Her research interests include ancient and modern death work, osteoarchaeology and paleopathology, and museum studies focusing on the curation, ethics, and display of the dead. ABM CONFERENCES ABM MEMBER EVENTS ABM Roundtable Discussion - August 2024 Roundtable Speaker Perceptions of Human Remains - Continued Following the overwhelming response to our March 27th session. We are pleased to announce an upcoming online Roundtable discussion on the topic of human remains in museums, cultural centers, and religious spaces. This session will offer an opportunity to examine the ongoing ethical and practical challenges surrounding the display, handling, storage, treatment, and scientific analysis of human remains. It will also provide a space to share diverse institutional experiences and foster thoughtful dialogue across disciplines. 
Our goal is to generate actionable insights that can support professionals navigating these responsibilities, and to encourage a respectful, informed approach to working with human remains in varied contexts. We welcome participants from across the field to join us for what promises to be a meaningful and necessary conversation. Explore PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

51530926-3419-4260-928a-5ba659a3734d Lynn Lee Senior Conservation Scientist M+ Museum for Visual Culture, Hong Kong Hong Kong Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2023 Team Presenter A multimodal approach to the study of human-derived materials in contemporary artwork Co-authored with Chan Oi Yan Michelle, Alessandra Guarascio and Marc Walton. Read the Abstract. Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

dda1f54c-2a11-4591-b0d6-85187d92dac7 Aniko Bezur Wallace S. Wilson Director of Scientific Research Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage Yale University West Haven, CT 06516, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Aniko Bezur is the Wallace S. Wilson Director of theTechnical Studies Laboratory at Yale’s Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage. Decoding the materiality of objects in Yale’s museums and the library is at the heart of their activities and expertise, carrying out materials analysis to address questions related to objects in Yale’s collections which emerge during their scholarly study, conservation, and during their use in teaching and exhibition. She oversees a research group that includes scientists and a conservator. A key mandate of her position is to increase our capacity to characterize materials by improving our capacity to use existing analytical tools and data analysis; by researching and advocating the purchase of new instrumentation; and by developing new instrumentation or tools and analytical methodologies. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2021 Team Presenter Extracting Stories from DNA preserved by 19th century Americana Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

b452f7a8-8a31-461b-a4a8-e7590208136d Sarah Guérin Assistant Professor History of Art Department University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Sarah Guérin is a medieval art historian whose research focuses on ivory carvings from around the Mediterranean world. Some of the questions she has addressed concern materiality, notably inter-regional trade networks across the medieval world system, as well as technique, facture, and function in both liturgy and devotion. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2018 Participant Art Bio Matters 2018 Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

b6e1c931-00aa-4692-93e4-71e686a0848e Nicole Passeroti Objects Conservator, Program Associate The UCLA/Getty Interdepartmental Program in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage Los Angeles, CA, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2023 Participant Art Bio Matters 2023 Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

16a6c6ee-dd30-4d69-a9dd-3e0677ab75b6 Gunnar Heydenreich Cologne Institute of Conservation Sciences Technical University Cologne Cologne, Germany Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Dr. Gunnar Heydenreich is Professor for Conservation of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Cologne Institute of Conservation Sciences / TH Köln. He studied paintings conservation and was awarded a Ph.D. from the Courtauld Institute of Art. From 1995 to 2009 he was head of paintings conservation at the Restaurierungszentrum in Düsseldorf. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2018 Participant Art Bio Matters 2018 Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

94c30bdb-ac88-4135-9401-54bd6b577c1c Lara Kaplan Objects Conservator and Affiliated Assistant Professor Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation Winterthur, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Lara Kaplan is an objects conservator at Winterthur Museum and an affiliated assistant professor at the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation (WUDPAC). Since 2017, she has led the organic objects portion of WUDPAC’s first-year conservation curriculum and beginning in 2019 came on board as a full-time objects conservator at Winterthur Museum. She earned an M.S. in art conservation from WUDPAC in 2003; interned at the Sheldon Jackson Museum, the Arizona State Museum, and the National Park Service Western Archeological and Conservation Center; and held a post-graduate Mellon Fellowship at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. Prior to working at Winterthur, she ran a private conservation practice in Baltimore, Maryland. Ms. Kaplan’s research interests include organic materials, especially skin and leather, the treatment of plastics, and ethical considerations for non-traditional collections. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2021 Team Presenter Overlooked Organics in Decorative Arts: Cataloging Skin-Based, Skeletal, and Hard Keratinous Animal Tissues Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

93d38c6d-0323-4bf3-846e-ed52f62b4bbd Evon Hekkala Assistant Professor Biological Sciences Fordham University New York, NY, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Evon Hekkala uses ancient and archival genomic methods to identify biological materials and to track their use and meaning at various points in history. Most recently, she is working with natural history collections to uplift Indigenous taxonomies and knowledge systems. Her current research is primarily focused on analyzing genomic data from archival and ancient biomaterials in combination with historical documentary resources to better understand species specific responses to anthropogenically and naturally induced environmental change. She works with communities to explore both formal and colloquial natural histories to decolonize our understanding of sources and meaning of the cultural heritage and natural history objects in museums. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2021 Poster Presenter Art Bio Matters 2021 Virtual Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM 2018 Participant Art Bio Matters 2018 Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS ABM Seminar Series - November 2023 Seminar Series Presenter Decolonizing Crocodylian Collections: Developing a model system for bridging Historical Indigenous and Eurocentric interpretations of culturally and economically important species in museum holdings Explore PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

1703895f-22de-4e6f-95b3-15ed3b534d95 Ashley Coutu Research Fellow Pitt Rivers Museum University of Oxford, UK Oxford, UK Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Ashley Coutu is currently a Research Fellow at the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford. Her background is as an archaeological scientist, and she primarily uses techniques and methods from biology and organic chemistry to understand archaeological materials. Her specialism is the use of stable isotope, ancient DNA, and proteomics analyses as applied to archaeological and museum collections of organic materials. She is particularly interested in method development in relation to the needs of museums for display and the care of objects in terms of their conservation. The geographical focus of her work is sub-Saharan Africa, and therefore most of her research is on the ivory trade, past and present, and the use of ivory as a raw material for crafting objects. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2021 Poster Presenter Life histories of ivory objects in museum collections Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS