Speakers
Digital Conservation Specialist, Library of Congress
Forthcoming.
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Scientist, Library of Congress
Eric Breitung is a physical organic chemist with ten years of industrial research experience in coatings and thin-films. He began working in the field of art conservation science in 2006 as an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Department of Scientific Research, where he developed novel methods for treating and producing scratch resistant large-format face-mounted photographs. A side project focused on novel anti-tarnish coatings for the protection of silver objects developed into an NSF funded grant w...
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Ph.D. Student, University of South Carolina
Associate Conservator, Associate Conservator
Samantha is a paintings conservation fellow in the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation. She graduated summa cum laude from the University of South Carolina in 2011, with an Honors BA in Art History and minors in Chemistry and Studio Art. She has previously...
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