Laser Discussion Group

Adam Jenkins is a conservator of sculpture and decorative arts based in Philadelphia. He works on diverse projects for large institutions and individual stakeholders in the region including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Franklin Institute, the Delaware Art Museum, and several large private collections in Philadelphia and New York. He is specializes in LASER cleaning technology and research and their contributions to the field of conservation. This expertise has led to his involvement with several projects in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., as well as the opportunity to provide LASER training to conservation professionals. Adam received his MS in Art Conservation from the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation in 2002, with an objects specialization. In the five years following, he served as Project Conservator before completing a three-year Mellon Fellowship in Objects Conservation at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. While working in the objects conservation lab at the PMA, Adam developed his interest in monumental sculpture beginning with the de-installation, treatment and reinstallation of Atmosphere and Environment XII, a COR-TEN steel sculpture by Louise Nevelson. Adam lectures regularly on a variety of topics ranging from metals conservation, to laser cleaning and mountmaking. He is a former member of the board of the Philadelphia Area Conservation Association (PACA) and is a Professional Member in the American Institute for Conservation (AIC).

Holly Salmon is the John L. and Susan K. Gardner Director of Conservation at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum where she has worked for over 20 years. She received her B.A. from Wellesley College in 1997, her M.S. in Art Conservation from the Winterthur University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation in 2001 and a certificate of Advanced Training in Objects Conservation from the Straus Center for Conservation, at the Harvard Art Museums in 2003. Her graduate internships included work at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Harvard's Peabody Museum and the National Conservation Centre in Liverpool, England where she studied laser cleaning. After graduating, Holly received a Mellon Foundation fellowship at Historic New England and also a Luce Scholars Program fellowship to spend a year studying at the Kyoto Lacquer Restoration Institute. In addition to managing the Conservation department, Holly oversees the museum’s conservation capital projects, such as the recent restorations of the Titian Room and Gothic Room galleries.

Eve holds a B.A. in Art History with a concentration in Asian Art from Wesleyan University. She graduated with a M.A. and M.S. degrees in art history and conservation at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University where she specialized in objects conservation. Eve has worked in the conservation departments of Olin Library at Wesleyan University, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Historic Odessa Foundation, Small Collections Library at the University of Virginia, National Museum of the American Indian, Worcester Art Museum, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (fourth-year internship), and Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (Andrew W. Mellon Fellow). In addition to museum work, Eve has participated in excavations at Sardis (Turkey), Selinunte (Sicily), Abydos (Egypt), and el Kurru (Sudan). Currently, Eve is an Assistant Conservator at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Chair of the Education and Training Committee (ETC), and Vice Chair of the Laser Discussion Group (LDG).

Colleen joined the Cleveland Museum of Art in 2010 as part of the building expansion project, where she continues to care for and research the encyclopedic collection, mentor students, and help develop outreach programming. This passion for outreach extends to her work with AIC’s K-12 Education Outreach Working Group. Colleen is a 2008 graduate of the SUNY Buffalo State University Garman Art Conservation Program where she specialized in the care of 3D objects with a subspecialty in archaeological materials. Her recent publications include a technical study of CMA’s ancient bronze statue of Apollo Sauroktonos and an 18th c. life-cast silver tureen by Juste-Aurele Meissonnier.