5240beb3-da18-4b75-8f60-17b4a47bfe98 Michael Galardi Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION ABM CONFERENCES ABM MEMBER EVENTS ABM Round Table - March 2024 Round Table Presenter ABM Round Table - March 2024 Question about the lightening/bleaching of sandstone due to microbiological growth. Explore PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

8d55114f-03ab-4194-ad0a-b99d17075662 Rachel Mustalish Conservator Sherman Fairchild Center for Works on Paper and Photographic Conservation The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Rachel Mustalish received an M.A. in the History of Art and an Advanced Certificate in Conservation from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. She joined the paper conservation department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1998 and studies drawings and prints with specializations in European and American modernism, and international contemporary art. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2023 Participant Art Bio Matters 2023 Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM 2018 Participant Art Bio Matters 2018 Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

6061b438-48ab-4fb5-8fd2-aa8b4ec6e2ce Ilaria Serafini Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Research fellow Museum Conservation Institute, Smithsonian Institution Maryland, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Dr. Ilaria Serafini received her Ph.D. from Sapienza University of Rome with a thesis on the development of nanomaterials and new methodologies for the analysis of organic matrices in textiles, with a multi-technique approach. In her post doc also at Sapienza University, in the Analytical Chemistry group of Chemistry Department, worked on the development of analytical methods in LC-MS for the identification of diagnostic markers in complex natural matrices applied to the field of cultural heritage. Dr. Serafini is also the inventor of two patents, one in the field of cultural heritage, and is also the founder of the start-up Sapienza D-ART srl. In 2020, she was the winner of the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Global Fellowship call, with a project on the development of new methodologies in the field of proteomics and dye analysis in extremely degraded archaeological artifacts, which took her for the last two years to the proteomics laboratory of the Museum Conservation Institute, Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC. Ending the outgoing phase of the project in February 2024, Dr. Serafini took up her position as a Researcher Tenure track in the Department of Environmental Biology- Sapienza University in April 2024 and is working toward the conclusion of the Marie Curie project (January 2025). ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2023 Poster Presenter Dyes and proteins analysis in a unique workflow: a new methodology for archaeological textiles Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS ABM Member Conversations - October 2024 Member Conversations Host Investigating Ancient Textiles - Where do you even start? How do you start investigating ancient textiles, when you are not even sure where to start? What kind of materials are they made from? Is there any information in those materials that would help identify a geographic place or date for the origin of the materials (if not the textiles themselves)? If the material is dyed--and many textile fragments are multi-colored--how could we test the dye? And, again, could the dye analysis give us any clues as to geography and chronology? Are there any tests or analytical procedures that can shed any light on the weaving or making process? If possible tests or procedures are known, how does one set up such tests? What is needed? Is sampling necessary? If so, what size would the samples need to be? What are the costs involved? Juliet and Ilaria will be holding an informal conversation touching on various topics of interest to both curators and scientists investigating ancient textiles. Explore PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

8e55e854-b2de-4743-99fe-cbca772cc892 Emily Lynch Conservator for Special Collections Columbia University Libraries New York, NY, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Emily is currently the Conservator for Special Collections at Columbia University Libraries. She received her undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College in physics and art history and earned her MA from the Conservation Center at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University with a focus in Library and Archive conservation. Emily has held positions at the Morgan Library & Museum, the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, and Harvard Library’s Weissman Preservation Center, in addition to completing internships at several institutions, including the Folger Shakespeare Library, the New-York Historical Society, and the American Museum of Natural History. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2023 Steering Committee Art Bio Matters 2023 Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

499edffd-a7b6-409e-bea3-fefe0548e51d Allison Wall Recent Graduate, MLIS Program University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Allison Wall is a recent graduate of the Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) program at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Specializing in Archival Studies, she developed a keen interest in archival preservation and preventative conservation measures for library materials. She has a background in museum education, exhibitions, and publishing and is passionate about preserving cultural heritage. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2023 Team Presenter AI-assisted classification of microorganism strains on paper-based cultural relics Co-authored with Chenshu Liu and Chongwen Liu. Read the Abstract. Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

97b3ac56-6dcf-4485-903b-58cc80551690 Asher Newsome Research Physical Scientist Smithsonian's Museum Conservation Institute Suitland-Silver Hill, MD, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION G. Asher Newsome received his doctorate in Analytical Chemistry from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in 2009, where he designed new instrumentation and methods for ion trap mass spectrometry. Since joining the Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute in 2017, he has been particularly focused on adapting ambient ionization methods to cultural heritage analysis. His research places special consideration on minimizing sample damage and analyzing objects too physically large for standard methods. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2021 Poster Presenter Non-proximate Ambient Mass Spectrometry Sampling of Large, Intact Cultural Heritage Objects Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

e65c9667-fc1e-4c47-bf47-6d19f96706df Vanessa Jones Assistant curator of dress and textiles Leeds Museums and Galleries Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Vanessa Jones is a curator and lecturer of dress and textile histories and theories. She has worked within the heritage sector for a decade and has taught in higher education for the last two years. She is an expert in curatorial practice around diversifying narratives of eighteenth-century dress, with broader specialisms including sustainable practices of dress consumption and production, global networks of trade, decolonisation and women’s history. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2023 Team Presenter Victorian Parasols: Scientists, Artisans, Historians and Curators in Conversation Co-authored with Cordula van Wyhe. Read the Abstract. Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

91bd3cb0-9f76-4e32-8f13-734566d11d4f Julia Sybalsky Conservator American Museum of Natural History New York, NY, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Julia Sybalsky is an objects conservator at the American Museum of Natural History in the Natural Science Conservation lab. Her work is focused on the preservation of scientific specimens on exhibit and in the museum’s research collection, as well as conservation research that supports these efforts. She is regularly involved with allied professional organizations and is a graduate of The Conservation Center of the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, where she teaches as an adjunct professor. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2021 Participant Art Bio Matters 2021 Virtual Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

ca4b2a1a-f024-4ff8-8548-63876e17b8dd Caroline Bouvier PhD student Laboratory of Molecular and Structural Archaeology Sorbonne University Paris, France Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Caroline Bouvier graduated in analytical chemistry and materials science in 2018, and had her first working experiences on painting materials using FTIR and Raman spectroscopies. Currently a PhD candidate in the Laboratory of Molecular and Structural Archaeology (Paris), she works on the analysis of cross sections using Time-Of- Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry, focusing on the binders identification, and on developing the imaging methodology and the data processing thanks to an adapted spectral database., 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