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Monday, May 29 • 1:00pm - 5:00pm
Advancing Leadership in Conservation – A Workshop and Focus Group LIMITED

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This session will address the issue of how to create leadership development opportunities in conservation and solicit feedback regarding the establishment of a Leadership Focus Group for Department Heads in Conservation and Science. The session will consist in a round table with presentations of personal stories of professional leadership development and a leadership workshop led by Paul Ingram, Kravis Professor of Business, Columbia Business School and instructor for the Center for Curatorial Leadership.

The session will also include a general discussion period where AIC members are solicited for what they would like to see in a new network designed to support their roles as managers and leaders in the conservation field. 
All AIC members are welcome. You do not have to be a department head to join this session.

The meeting will take place at the Art Institute of Chicago on Monday, May 29, 2017, from 1:00 pm to 5 pm. See schedule attached below.

 Registration $89
Speaker(s)
avatar for Tiarna M. Doherty, [PA]

Tiarna M. Doherty, [PA]

Chief of Conservation, Smithsonian American Art Museum
Tiarna became Chief of Conservation at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in 2011. Previously, Tiarna worked for nine years as a paintings conservator at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. She holds a bachelor’s degree in both chemistry and art history from Tufts University... Read More →
avatar for Francesca Casadio

Francesca Casadio

Andrew W. Mellon Senior Conservation Scientist and Co-director NU-ACCESS, The Art Institute of Chicago and Northwestern University
Francesca Casadio joined the Art Institute of Chicago in 2003 to establish and direct a state of the art conservation science laboratory. In January 2018, she will assume the post of Executive Director of Conservation and Science in the same institution. Dr. Casadio has also established... Read More →
avatar for Nicholas Dorman

Nicholas Dorman

Chief Conservator, Seattle Art Museum
Nicholas Dorman studied conservation at the University of Northumbria, England, at the Doerner Institut in Munich and on an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. He worked as a conservator at the Doerner Institut and at the Stichting Kollektief Restauratie... Read More →
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Paul Ingram

Kravis Professor of Business, Columbia University
Paul Ingram is the Kravis Professor Business at the Columbia Business School, and Faculty Director of the Columbia Senior Executive Program. His PhD is from Cornell University and he was on the faculty of Carnegie Mellon University before coming to Columbia. He has held visiting professorships... Read More →
avatar for Narayan Khandekar

Narayan Khandekar

Director, Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, Harvard Art Museums/Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies
Narayan Khandekar leads the Straus Center’s conservation and research activities, as well as those for the Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art. Specializing in the scientific analysis of paintings and painted surfaces, he has published extensively on the subject. His laboratory... Read More →
avatar for Per Knutås-[PA]

Per Knutås-[PA]

Chief Conservator, Cleveland Museum of Art
Per Knutås is the Eric and Jane Nord Chief Conservator at the Cleveland Museum of Art where he oversees a department of 15 conservators and conservation technicians. He graduated from The School of Conservation at the Royal Danish Academy of Art, in Copenhagen, Denmark with a focus... Read More →


Monday May 29, 2017 1:00pm - 5:00pm CDT
Art Institute of Chicago 111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
  2. Workshop

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