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Cassandra Gero

Metropolitan Museum of Art
Assistant Conservator
New York, NY
Websitemetmuseum.org
Cassandra Gero is an Assistant Conservator for The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, where her main focus is preparing objects for interdepartmental and outgoing loans. She previously worked in the Collections department of the Costume Institute, and also at the Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. She holds a MA in Fashion and Textile Studies: History, Theory, Museum Practice from the Fashion Institute of Technology.
Tuesday, May 30
 

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 • 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

(Textiles) You Say You Want a Revolution? An Innovative, Low-Tack Adhesive Treatment for 18th-Century Silk Flags Crystal Ballroom CCamille Myers Breeze-[Fellow]

2:30pm CDT

(Textiles) Identification of skins in a Chewa dance garment from Malawi using DNA sequencing Crystal Ballroom CAnne Peranteau

3:00pm CDT

(Textiles) The Characterization of ‘Foxing’ on Textiles Crystal Ballroom CSophia Zweifel

3:30pm CDT

Break in the Exhibit Hall Riverside West Exhibit Hall

4:00pm CDT

(Textiles) Oh, Bother: The Conservation of Winnie the Pooh and Friends Crystal Ballroom CAlison Castaneda

4:30pm CDT

(Textiles) Making the Mold: A Use for Fosshape in Upholstery Conservation Crystal Ballroom CKirsten Schoonmaker • Abby Zoldowski

5:00pm CDT

(Textiles) From the Top Down: Dressing the Historic Bed—Developing Mounting Systems from a 21st- century Conservation Perspective Crystal Ballroom CDeirdre Windsor

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
 

8:00am CDT

(Textiles) Business Meeting with a Light Breakfast Crystal Ballroom CKathy Francis

9:00am CDT

(Textiles) Tips and Tricks Crystal Ballroom C

9:30am CDT

(Textiles) Costume Loans: Challenges and Strategies Crystal Ballroom CCassandra Gero

10:00am CDT

Break in the Exhibit Hall Riverside West Exhibit Hall

10:30am CDT

(Textiles) Learning from treatments that did not go as planned Crystal Ballroom CSuzan Meijer • Marjolein Koek

11:00am CDT

(Textiles) A Worthwhile Endeavor: The Conservation of a Worth and Bobergh Ensemble Crystal Ballroom CJohanna Tower

11:30am CDT

(Textiles) A Treatment Returns Undone Crystal Ballroom CNancy Love, [PA]

2:05pm CDT

(Beyond Treatment) What's so ethical about doing nothing? Regency A-BJonathan Ashley-Smith (Treatment: Don't Go it alone) Unraveling the past to inform the present: conservation of Egyptian Mummies at the Penn Museum Regency C-DMolly C. Gleeson, [PA] • Alexis North

2:55pm CDT

(Beyond Treatment) In Support of the Bigger Picture: Preventive Conservation as a Recognized Specialty Regency A-BElena Torok • Meg Loew Craft-[Fellow]

3:30pm CDT

Break in the Exhibit Hall Riverside West Exhibit Hall

4:05pm CDT

(Treatment: Going Big) Textiles as Architecture: Raising a Royal Persian Tent Crystal Ballroom ARobin Hanson-[Fellow]

4:30pm CDT

(Beyond Treatment) That Poor Cousin of Treatment: Documentation and Possibilities for Simple Innovation Regency A-BCybele Tom

4:55pm CDT

(Treatment: Going Big) Gilding the Lily? The Conservation Treatment of Alexander Calder's Red Lily Pads Crystal Ballroom ANathan Otterson • Tracey Bashkoff • Federica Pozzi • Carol Stringari • John Vitagliano

6:30pm CDT

(Objects + Textiles) Reception at the Chicago History Museum Chicago History MuseumBruker Corporation • Dorfman Museum Figures
 
Thursday, June 1
 

10:00am CDT

(Textiles) Deconstructed: Restoring the intent and integrity of a rare Kainai squirrel-lined baby quilt Crystal Ballroom CShirley Ellis

10:30am CDT

(Textiles) Agarose, Two Ways: Successes and Challenges in Large Scale Gel Applications Crystal Ballroom CDana Renée Goodin

11:00am CDT

(Textiles) Sublime Applications: Creating an Efficient Cyclododecane Barrier on Textiles Crystal Ballroom CGennifer Majors

11:30am CDT

(Textiles) Panel Discussion on Wet Cleaning Crystal Ballroom C

2:00pm CDT

(Textiles) Safely Mounting Figures with Extreme Actions Poses Crystal Ballroom CSunae P. Evans

2:30pm CDT

(Textiles) 3D Modeling and CNC Routering of Mannequins for Displaying Costume Crystal Ballroom CBrenna Cook • Carmen Li

3:00pm CDT

(Textiles) 3D Scanning to Create Custom Storage Forms for the Charles James collection in the Costume Institute, Metropolitan Museum of Art Crystal Ballroom CTaylor Healy • Sarah Scaturro

3:30pm CDT

(Textiles) Making Ethafoam Mannequins using a CNC router Crystal Ballroom CGail Niinimaa • Nils Sundstrom

4:00pm CDT

(Textiles) Panel Discussion on Mannequins Crystal Ballroom C