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Blair Bailey

Detroit Institute of Arts
Conservator
Detroit, MI
Websitehttps://dia.org
Blair Bailey is currently the Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Painting Conservation at the Detroit Institute of Arts. She holds two Bachelor of Arts degrees in Art History and History from American University, Washington, D.C. and graduated with distinction from the Northumbria University Master of Arts in the Conservation of Fine Art- Easel Paintings program. Ms. Bailey previously worked at The Ringling (Sarasota, FL), the National Gallery of Ireland, and in various Smithsonian Institution branches such as the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution Archives, and the Museum Conservation Institute, as well as in private conservation studios within the Washington, D.C. area. Experiences in conservation also included public outreach through tours, blog posts, and social media.
Monday, May 29
 

8:30am CDT

Building Emergency Response SkillsFILLING AcapulcoSusan Duhl, [PA] • Robert Herskovitz, [PA] • Ann Frellsen • Emergency Committee • National Heritage Responders

2:00pm CDT

Scholarly Writing for Conservation Michigan 1A-BMichele Derrick • Robin Hanson-[Fellow] • Julio M. del Hoyo-Meléndez • Ellen Pearlstein

3:30pm CDT

ECPN Poster Lightning Round Crystal Ballroom ARebecca Gridley • Michelle Sullivan • João Henrique Ribeiro Barbosa • Marci Jefcoat Burton • Nathan Daly • Ashley Freeman • Sarah Giffin • Hayley Monroe • Alexandra Nichols • Kaslyne O'Connor • Annabel Pinkney • Elinor Dei Tos Pironti • Julie Ribits • Marissa Vassari • Meredith Wilcox-Levine

4:00pm CDT

STASH FLASH IV Michigan 1A-BRachael Perkins Arenstein-[PA] • Lisa Goldberg

5:30pm CDT

ECPN Happy Hour The Conservation Center
 
Tuesday, May 30
 

8:15am CDT

(Opening General Session) Welcome and Awards Presentation (Part 1) Regency BallroomPamela Hatchfield

8:45am CDT

(Health & Safety) Respirator Fit Testing TorontoTara D. Kennedy • Anne Kingery Schwartz-[PA]

9:00am CDT

(Opening General Session) Revision & Reflection; The Conservation/Restoration project of the Ghent Altarpiece Regency BallroomBart Devolder

9:30am CDT

(Opening General Session) When An Airplane Acts Like a Painting: Applying Established Conservation Methodologies to Ephemeral Aircraft Materials Regency BallroomLauren Horelick • Malcolm Collum

10:00am CDT

Break in the Exhibit Hall Riverside West Exhibit Hall

10:30am CDT

(Opening General Session) Award Presentations (Part 2) Regency Ballroom

10:50am CDT

(Opening General Session) Preventive Conservation in the Renovation of the Harvard Art Museums: Before, During, and Ever After Regency BallroomAngela Chang, [PA] • Penley Knipe • Kate Smith

11:15am CDT

(Opening General Session) What Would Anselm Do? Revisiting the treatment of Osiris and Isis Regency BallroomPaula De Cristofaro, [PA]

11:40am CDT

(Opening General Session) Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs Regency BallroomKarl Buchberg

12:05pm CDT

(Opening General Session) Award Presentations (Part 3) Regency Ballroom

12:15pm CDT

(Opening General Session) Open Discussion Regency Ballroom

2:00pm CDT

(Architecture + Wooden Artifacts) The Framing of a Masterpiece The History and Conservation of a Monumental Tabernacle Frame Crystal Ballroom AWilliam Adair • Stephan Wilcox (Paintings + Research & Technical Studies) Practice-led and practice-based collaborative research at Tate: supporting the advancement of modern and contemporary painting conservation treatment practice Regency C-DDr. Bronwyn Ormsby

2:30pm CDT

(Collection Care) Environmental performance assessments of packing cases employed by the J. Paul Getty Museum Plaza BallroomVincent L. Beltran • Rita Gomez • Kevin Marshall (Paintings + Research & Technical Studies) Re-examining Old Findings and Inferences: The Study of a Magus at a Table by Jan Lievens Regency C-DShan Kuang

3:00pm CDT

(Paintings + Research & Technical Studies) A Confusion of Colors: Yellow and red pigments in the decorative scheme of the tablinum in the House of the Bicentenary at the archaeological site of Herculaneum Regency C-DLeslie Rainer, [PA] • Kiernan Graves • Gilberto Artioli • Arlen Heginbotham • Francesca Piqué • Michele Secco

3:30pm CDT

Break in the Exhibit Hall Riverside West Exhibit Hall

4:00pm CDT

(Paintings + Research & Technical Studies) A Preliminary Investigation into Aquazol® as an Alternative Lining Adhesive for Paintings Regency C-DBlair Bailey • Raymond Aso • Richard Campbell • Ben Dawson • Nicola Grimaldi • Kallum Moses • Dr. Roger Penlington • Dr. Charis Theodorakopoulos

4:30pm CDT

(Paintings + Research & Technical Studies) Gecko-inspired µ-Dusters for Cleaning: Ongoing Research and Potential for Art Conservation Regency C-DCynthia Schwarz • Hadi Izadi • Kyle Vanderlick

5:00pm CDT

(Paintings + Research & Technical Studies) Pioneering Solutions for Treating Water Stains on Acrylic Paintings: Case Study Composition, 1963 by Justin Knowles Regency C-DMaureen Cross • Maggie Barkovic • Olympia Diamond • Dr. Bronwyn Ormsby

5:30pm CDT

Pre-Opening Reception Gallery Viewing at the Art Institute of Chicago Art Institute of Chicago

6:30pm CDT

Opening Reception at the Art Institute of Chicago Art Institute of ChicagoHuntington T. Block Insurance Agency
 
Wednesday, May 31
 

8:30am CDT

(Paintings) Altered States: Conservation of the Ayala Altarpiece Regency CJulie Simek, [PA]

9:00am CDT

(Paintings) The Monopoli Altarpiece: rediscovery and recovery of a Cretan-Venetian masterpiece Regency CCaitlin Breare (Textiles) Tips and Tricks Crystal Ballroom C

9:30am CDT

(Paintings) Mapping a way forward: Bringing an artwork back from self-destruction Regency CPer Knutås-[PA] • Samantha Springer (Textiles) Costume Loans: Challenges and Strategies Crystal Ballroom CCassandra Gero

9:40am CDT

(Sustainability) Students for Sustainability in Conservation Plaza BallroomCaitlin Christena Southwick

10:00am CDT

Break in the Exhibit Hall Riverside West Exhibit Hall

10:30am CDT

(Paintings) Tips Session Regency C

11:30am CDT

(Paintings) Business Meeting Regency CNoelle Ocon-[PA]

2:05pm CDT

(Beyond Treatment) What's so ethical about doing nothing? Regency A-BJonathan Ashley-Smith

2:30pm CDT

(Treatment: Going Big) When what went up must come down: Triage treatment and disassembly of two 15th century Chinese mud plaster murals Crystal Ballroom AMadeleine Neiman • Emily Brown-[PA] • Lynn Grant-[PA]

2:55pm CDT

(Treatment: Going Big) Puvis de Chavannes’ Philosophy: Condition Issues and Strategies for the Removal of a Severely Detached Mural, its Conservation Treatment and Remounting Crystal Ballroom AGianfranco Pocobene • Ian Hodkinson

3:30pm CDT

Break in the Exhibit Hall Riverside West Exhibit Hall 004. (Book and Paper) Local cleaning of stained artworks on paper: the new possibilities of rigid gels Riverside West Exhibit HallSophie Barbisan • Catherine I. Maynor • Anne-Laurence Dupont 012. (Paintings) A Study on the Design to store Asian Painting Scrolls Riverside West Exhibit HallJun Yin Hsiao 013. (Paintings) Innovational drying wall for Asian paintings Riverside West Exhibit HallYi-Hsia Hsiao 018. (Objects) Development of a User-Driven Adhesives Database Riverside West Exhibit HallShaina Palmer • Andrea KI Hall • Robert Leheny • Molly McGath • Dr. Patricia McGuiggan • Sara Zaccaron 022. (Book and Paper) Captain America Encounters Klucel M® Riverside West Exhibit HallMichiko Adachi 029. (Book and Paper) An Enclosure for a 3-D Object in a Scrapbook Riverside West Exhibit HallNoah D. Smutz 049. (Paintings) 'Rutabaga: In: The Sky' – Creative Solutions to Modern Treatment Problems Riverside West Exhibit HallStephanie Barnes • Craig Huzway • Antje Neumann • Jia-sun Tsang 050. (Objects) The Sharp End of Conservation: Reintroducing Paint to a Mid-Nineteenth Century American Stained-Glass Window Riverside West Exhibit HallAmanda Chau • Drew Anderson 051. (Paintings) Five van Goghs Riverside West Exhibit HallThomas Heller 052. (Paintings) Alternative methodology for traditional interventions: Loose lining in colonial paintings Riverside West Exhibit HallDamasia Gallegos • Ana Morales • Dolores González Pondal 054. (Research and Technical Studies) Blue Period? : Analysis muddies Tintoretto attribution and working practice Riverside West Exhibit HallDr. Amanda J. Norbutus • Lourdes Nunez 062. (Objects) Evaluating (poly)ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA) adhesives for use in wax conservation. Riverside West Exhibit HallMarina B. Gibbons 064. (Paintings) The Evolution of a Method: Optimizing the Use of Evolon® CR to Poultice Varnish on a Large Scale Riverside West Exhibit HallKari Rayner 074. (Paintings) The development and testing of Gel Cleaning Systems for Cleaning Inorganic Supports in Argentina, Curazao and the Dominican Republic. Riverside West Exhibit HallViviana Dominguez • Ruahidy Lombert • Giselle Canosa 076. (Health and Safety) Replacement of toxic solvents: a practical approach for art conservation studios Riverside West Exhibit HallLuciana Murcia 084. (Paintings) Lifting the Microfiber Veil: Utilizing Evolon fabric at the Mauritshuis to remove aged varnish from Hendrick Heerschop's A Visit to the Doctor Riverside West Exhibit HallJulie Ribits 085. (Paintings) Future prospects of conservation treatments with a micro-aspirator tool Riverside West Exhibit HallFriederike Steckling • Markus Gross • Dr. Nadim C. Scherrer • Stefan Zumbühl

4:05pm CDT

(Treatment: Don't Go it Alone) Not a Known Carcinogen: Health and Safety Considerations of New and Innovative Treatments Regency C-DKerith Koss Schrager • Anne Kingery Schwartz-[PA] • Julie Sobelman

4:30pm CDT

(Unique Objects/Unique Treatment) Nanocellulose films: properties, development and new applications for translucent and transparent artworks and documents Crystal Ballroom BRemy Dreyfuss-Deseigne • Anne-Laurence Dupont

6:30pm CDT

(Paintings) Reception at the Union League Club Union League ClubLighting Services Inc • Artex Fine Art Services
 
Thursday, June 1
 

7:30am CDT

AIC Member Business Meeting Regency A-B

10:00am CDT

(Paintings) Our Lady of Mercy: the discovery of a hanging scroll painting by José Gil de Castro Regency CMonica Perez

10:30am CDT

(Paintings) Color Field Paintings and Sun-bleaching: An approach for removing stains in unprimed canvas Regency CJay Krueger • Holly Krueger, [Fellow] • Julia Langenbacher • Thomas Learner • Alan Phenix-[PA] (Research & Technical Studies) What can nanotechnology do for us? Evaluating novel cleaning tools through the NanoRestArt project at Tate Regency DDr. Bronwyn Ormsby • Dr. Lora Angelova • Rachel Barker • Gates Sofer (Textiles) Agarose, Two Ways: Successes and Challenges in Large Scale Gel Applications Crystal Ballroom CDana Renée Goodin

11:00am CDT

(Paintings) Using Butvar® B-98 as a Consolidant for Friable Matte Paint Regency CClaire Winfield [PA]

11:30am CDT

(Paintings) When the Dog Bites: Tear Mending a Large Steven Parrino Painting Following a Dog Attack Regency CLaura Eva Hartman

2:00pm CDT

(Paintings) Conservation of Alexander Calder’s Last Work Mexico #3: The cross-disciplinary treatment supported by SEM and TEM paint cross section analysis using focus ion beam (FIB) sample preparation Regency CSara J. Wohler • Ralph Wiegandt (Research & Technical Studies) Minimally invasive sampling for the analysis of proteins from solids and surfaces Regency DDan Kirby

2:30pm CDT

(Paintings) Conservators as Collaborators: working with artist Dan Colen Regency CSuzanne Siano

3:00pm CDT

(Paintings) Conserving the Paintings of Romaine Brooks Regency CTiarna M. Doherty, [PA] (Research & Technical Studies) Stability of Polyvinyl Butyral Polymers with Light Exposure Regency DDavid Thomas • Matthew L. Clarke • Blythe McCarthy

3:30pm CDT

(Research & Technical Studies) Understanding the Reactivity and the Dynamics of Lead Soaps in Oil Paintings Regency DSilvia Centeno • Jaclyn Catalano • Cecil Dybowski • Anna Murphy • Yao Yao • Nicholas Zumbulyadis

4:00pm CDT

(Paintings) A Colonial Portrait and a Mystery Regency CRustin Levenson-[Fellow] • Emily MacDonald Korth