366a5fdd-5e84-403e-a00a-8e01443ac52e David McFadden Retired; formerly Chief Curator and Vice President for Programs and Collections Museum of Arts & Design New York, NY, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION David Revere McFadden served as Chief Curator and Vice President for Programs and Collections at the Museum of Arts & Design from 1997 to 2013. McFadden has organized more than 120 exhibitions, including Dead or Alive: Nature Becomes Art, which brought together artists who use materials such as bones, insects, dead plants, fish, and seeds. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2018 Participant Art Bio Matters 2018 Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

88fa2d74-114e-4d66-aa17-38966f7ec78e Nathan Wales Lecturer Department of Archaeology University of York York, UK Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Dr. Nathan Wales is affiliated with the University of York where he directs the ancient DNA laboratory in the Department of Archaeology. He specializes in recovering DNA from degraded plant remains, and his primary research is focused on understanding how humans domesticated species like corn, sunflower, and grapevine. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2018 Team Presenter The Potential of Analyzing DNA from Ancient and Historic Works of Art Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

17ae9c6d-2cdf-4338-942f-1f404c6ac7f8 Cordula van Wyhe Senior Lecturer, History of Art Department University of York, UK York, UK Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Cordula’s intellectual journey began in the Low Countries, where she developed her interests in seventeenth-century religious and political imagery, female spirituality, and court culture. She is committed to a humane art history that strives to understand how our visual and tactile engagement with form and matter creates meaning. Her research and teaching extends to dress history beyond early modern Europe. She is passionate about teaching as a collaborative venture of co-discovery and knowledge creation. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2023 Team Presenter Victorian Parasols: Scientists, Artisans, Historians and Curators in Conversation Co-authored with Vanessa Jones. Read the Abstract. Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

b462e744-2cfb-435b-9836-08296ed19db5 Susan Gagliardi Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Emory University Art History Department Atlanta, GA, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Susan E. Gagliardi is an associate professor of art history at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. She is also a core faculty member of Emory’s Institute of African Studies, and currently serves as director of graduate studies for Emory’s PhD program in art history. Her research and teaching focuses on the arts of Africa. She has spent a total of more than twenty-one months in Burkina Faso, where she has worked with power association leaders and other community members to study the organizations and their arts. She has also conducted archival and museum-based research in Africa, Europe, and North America. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2021 Poster Presenter Accretion, accumulation, encrustation? Reconciling scientific and curatorial perspectives when reporting on surface materials on African sculptures Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

41dbb70e-1ab8-45b0-a037-525495f1dc15 Laura Allen Curator of Native American Art Montclaire Art Museum Montclair, NJ, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Laura J. Allen is an interdisciplinary scholar and the Curator of Native American Art at the Montclair Art Museum. She holds a B.S. in Biology from Bates College and an M.A. in Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture from Bard Graduate Center. Her research focuses on Northwest Coast Native material culture, particularly dress and textiles. She has supported the American Museum of Natural History, the University of Alaska Museum of the North, and other organizations in both cultural and scientific projects. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2021 Participant Art Bio Matters 2021 Virtual Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

70ef1c89-7d4f-4776-ac96-fa926941131d Daniella Berman Vice President Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture (HECAA) Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION An art historian specializing in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art, Daniella Berman has a particular interest in artists’ materials and techniques. Having earned her B.A. at Yale University and her M.A. and Ph.D. at NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts, Dr. Berman has held positions at the National Gallery of Art and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, among others. She has contributed to many exhibitions and publications, and is currently Vice President of the Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture (HECAA). ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2023 Participant Art Bio Matters 2023 Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

d86031bd-b787-4731-8218-54cd3d3e7fd5 Halina Piasecki New York University - Institute of Fine Arts New York, NY, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Halina Piasecki (she/her) is a third-year objects conservation graduate student at the Conservation Center at NYU's Institute of Fine Arts. Halina's background is in classical languages, art, and archaeology. Her special interests within objects conservation include Greek and Roman archaeological artifacts, composite decorative arts objects, and 15th - 18th century objects displayed in northern European kunstkammern. Halina has worked in conservation roles at institutions such as the Brooklyn Museum, the American Museum of Natural History, the Museum of Chinese in America, the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, and the Central Park Conservancy. Halina has participated in three different archaeological excavations, and is especially interested in the ethical considerations at play in the extraction and preservation of archaeological cultural heritage from its burial context. She is also an artist working with diverse media, and in her free time she enjoys wheel throwing ceramics, drawing, printmaking, and classical goldsmithing. Halina has limited technical analytical experience and is excited to gain insight from the Art Bio Matters community. ABM CONFERENCES ABM MEMBER EVENTS ABM Round Table - July 2024 Round Table Presenter ABM Round Table - July 2024 How to identify organic residues preserved within the pipe bowls to investigate the object’s history and material evidence of modern opium smoking practices. Explore PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

ecb53a9d-44a7-4ead-8f96-5ff53d262b2d Camilla Jul Bastholm Head of Collection Storage and Curation The National Museum of Denmark Copenhagen, Denmark Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Experienced Conservator PhD with a strong history of working with museums and cultural heritage. Skilled in preservation of cultural heritage, research, indoor air, fungal analysis, preventive conservation, working environment, museum exhibitions, and disaster management of cultural heritage with focus on rescue and recover damaged cultural heritage due flooding, fires, and natural disasters related to climate change. ABM CONFERENCES ABM MEMBER EVENTS ABM Seminar Series - December 2024 Seminar Series Presenter When mould is a museum visitor – xerophilic fungal growth challenges environmental recommendations for heritage collections In the last decade, extensive fungal growth has developed in Danish museums parallel to climate change challenging occupational health and heritage preservation. The growth was unexpected as the museums controlled relative humidity below 60 %, according to international environmental recommendations for heritage collections. Only heritage artefacts were affected, there was no growth on building constructions, interior and museum boxes. A cross-sectional study using a multiple detection approach found that the culprits were extremophilic xerophilic fungal species able to grow at low relative humidity, which is most unusual for fungi. The study concluded that xerophilic fungal growth is nationally distributed and suggests these species as a novel contaminant in climate-controlled museum repositories. To safeguard occupational health and heritage preservation research in sustainable solutions, avoiding xerophilic growth in museum collections is most important. Explore PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

ca95c5cd-a176-4d12-a128-324656894eec Catherine Stephens Sally and Michael Gordon Conservation Scientist Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York, NY, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Catherine H. Stephens, Ph.D., is the Sally and Michael Gordon Conservation Scientist at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, USA. Her work is focused on using analytical instrumentation, including mapping and handheld XRF, FTIR, SPME- and py- GCMS, MFT, and optical microscopy to inform conservation treatments, identify the composition of specific objects, study the environment around the art, and provide guidance for how to display and store MoMA’s collection. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2023 Participant Art Bio Matters 2023 Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

a07348cf-9e38-46b3-98da-d12c0e67b40f Tami Lasseter Clare Associate Professor Portland State University Portland, OR, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Tami Lasseter Clare is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at Portland State University where she teaches a range of undergraduate and graduate courses and is the Director of the Pacific Northwest Conservation Science Consortium, in partnership with five major museums in the region. With her undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral trainees, her research efforts center on developing new materials and diagnostic tools to prevent and understand the degradation of material cultural heritage, such as artwork and ethnographic materials. Her prior work experience includes post-doctoral work at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and as an instructor at the University of Pennsylvania in the Historic Preservation program. She earned her Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2005. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2021 Team Presenter The Chilkat Dye Project Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS