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Wei Kao

Philadelphia Museum of Art
Mellon Fellow in Furniture & Woodwork
Philadelphia, PA
Websitephilamuseum.org
Wei Kao is the Andrew W. Mellow Fellow in Furniture and Woodwork Conservation at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. She graduated in 2015 from Tainan National University of the Arts in the institute of Conservation of Cultural Relics and Museology with a specialization in lacquer. She held internships at National Palace Museum in Taipei and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
Monday, May 29
 

6:30pm CDT

Architecture River Cruise Tour Departure Area - Crystal Foyer At the Hyatt Regency WEST TOWERFILLING
 
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

10:50am 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

12:30pm CDT

Protecting the World’s Cultural Heritage: Identifying and Protecting Looted Artifacts AcapulcoDawn Rogala, [Fellow] • L. Burgess • Oya Topcuoglu

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

2:30pm CDT

(Architecture + Wooden Artifacts) Aimee Spencer Gorham’s Wood Marquetry of the Pacific Northwest Crystal Ballroom ANina Olsson • Suzana Radivojevic

3:00pm CDT

(Architecture + Wooden Artifacts) Treatment of Appleton Organ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Crystal Ballroom AManu Frederickx • Jennifer Schnitker

3:30pm CDT

Break in the Exhibit Hall Riverside West Exhibit Hall

4:00pm CDT

(Architecture + Wooden Artifacts) Structural Treatment of Wooden Beams Crystal Ballroom AMostafa Sherif

4:30pm CDT

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

5:00pm CDT

(Book & Paper) Line up, Back to Back: Restoration of Korean Buddhist Sutra in accordion book format Regency A-BHsin-Chen Tsai • Tanya Uyeda

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

(Wooden Artifacts) Count Lamberg’s Roman Table in The Rijksmuseum AcapulcoJan Dorscheid • Arie Pappot

9:00am CDT

(Objects) Carbon fiber fabric and its potential for use in objects conservation Crystal Ballroom BCarolyn Riccardelli

9:30am CDT

(Objects) So Delicate, yet So Strong: The Use of Paper in Objects Conservation Crystal Ballroom BPaula Artal-Isbrand

10:00am CDT

Break in the Exhibit Hall Riverside West Exhibit Hall

10:30am CDT

(Wooden Artifacts) Understanding Currently Accepted Practice: Wood fills and conservation material decision-making AcapulcoMegan Narvey

11:00am CDT

(Sustainability) Tips Session Plaza Ballroom

11:30am CDT

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

2:05pm CDT

(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

2:30pm 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

(Unique Objects/Unique Treatment) Reattaching without adhesive? Yes we can! The reactivation of paint on animation cels. Crystal Ballroom BKatharina Hoeyng • Vincent L. Beltran • Carolyn Carta • Art Kaplan • Joy Mazurek • Kristen McCormick • Michael R. Schilling

3:30pm CDT

Break in the Exhibit Hall Riverside West Exhibit Hall 005. (Book and Paper) Analysis of synthetic dyes and the Treatment of 1910's - 1950's Historic Chinese Wedding Documents Riverside West Exhibit HallPaul CW Chan • Edward Chun-Yiu Law • Angela Wai-Sum Liu 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 047. (Objects) Case Study of Regalrez 1126 Used as an Adhesive and Consolidant in the Conservation Treatment of an 18th Century Chinese Amber Cup at The Metropolitan Museum of Art Riverside West Exhibit HallTong Tong 067. (Textiles) Initial treatment techniques for Japanese Lacquer-based metallic thread and cut paper appliqué Riverside West Exhibit HallElinor Dei Tos Pironti

4:05pm CDT

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

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

4:55pm CDT

(Unique Objects/Unique Treatment) Development of Cleaning Treatments for Asian Lacquer Crystal Ballroom BMarianne Webb • Herant Khanjian • Michael R. Schilling
 
Thursday, June 1
 

10:00am CDT

(Wooden Artifacts) Conservation of The Immaculate Concepcion at San Xavier del Bac AcapulcoMatilde Rubio, [PA] • Timothy L Lewis

10:30am CDT

(Wooden Artifacts) Manufacture and Treatment study of Coffin and mummy Cartonnage, at Egyptian Museum in Cairo AcapulcoMohammed A. Hussein • Rania El-Atfy • Randa El Helw • Moamen Othman • Sabah Abdel Razek • Eman H. Zidan

11:00am CDT

(Wooden Artifacts) Preservation of the Endangered Cultural Assets of the Traditional Egyptian Storyteller's Heritage and its Instruments and Tools AcapulcoDr. Hany Hanna

11:30am CDT

(Architecture) A Comparative Study of Sacrificial anti-graffiti Coatings for Outdoor Marble Crystal Ballroom AJason Church • Dorothy Cheng

2:00pm CDT

(Wooden Artifacts) Technical Analysis and Conservation Treatment of a Mid-Eighteenth Century Chinese Carved Wood Lacquer Bodhisattva Sculpture AcapulcoLisa A. Ackerman • Jiuan Jiuan Chen-[PA] • Rebecca Ploeger • Dr. Aaron Shugar • Jonathan Thornton

2:30pm CDT

(Wooden Artifacts) Old Meets New: Consolidation Techniques AcapulcoElizabeth Peirce

3:00pm CDT

(Wooden Artifacts) Conservation and Analysis of a Pair of Qing Dynasty Lacquer Clothes Wardrobes in the Collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art AcapulcoWei Kao • Kelly M Conlin • Cathleen Duffy • Barbara Fisher • Hiromi Kinoshita • Peggy Olley • Beth A. Price • Behrooz Salimnejad-[PA]

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

(Electronic Media) Finding logic within integrated circuits: the restoration of Stephan von Huene's Tap Dancer ComiskeyJulie Wolfe • Coleman Wood