Sustainability Committee

Yadin Larochette received a B.A. in Art History from the University of California at Berkeley with honors in 1994 and an M.S. degree in Art Conservation from the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in 2004, majoring in textiles with a concentration in preventive conservation. She was President at Conserv Solutions, Inc. in 2022 and the Museum and Conservation Liaison for Tru Vue, Inc. from 2015 to 2021. Prior to that she ran Larochette Textile Conservation LLC, a  private practice, in Los Angeles. Contracts involved various private textile collections and numerous institutions such as the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Huntington Art Collections, the Autry National Center of the American West, and the Palm Springs Art Museum.  She is a fifth generation French tapestry weaver, and wove professionally prior to entering the conservation field.

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Daniela earned her Dual Honours Bachelor’s degree in Communication Studies and Art History at Carleton University, Canada, and holds a Master of Fine Art Conservation from Northumbria University, United Kingdom. During her Master’s degree, she conducted original research into the sustainability of adhesives used in art conservation and their potential substitutes. 

Following her academic training, Daniela acquired several years of professional experience in the private sector, working both in the United Kingdom and Canada. She lead a student program for a conservation-focused NGO from 2019-2022, Sustainability in Conservation, that worked to educate and motivate art conservators in environmentally sustainable solutions. Daniela has presented internationally on her research into adhesives and bio-based alternatives, and has worked to improve access to this information across the conservation field.

Kisook Suh is Conservator in the Department of Textile Conservation at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. She is taking care of tapestries of The Met Cloisters’ collections. Since 2006, she has been part of diverse projects at The Met, in particular the conservation of textiles for the reopening of the galleries for Islamic Art i.e. Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asian, and Later South Asian galleries. Kisook received her MA in museum studies from the Fashion Institute of Technology and was the recipient of an Andrew W. Mellon Conservation Fellowship for her research on East Asian embroideries. She was previously employed by the National Folk Museum of Korea, working on both archaeological and historical costume and textile collections. Besides her continuing research on early repairs/ restorations, her most recent interests are in digitization and digital documentation of conservation records and applying advanced imaging techniques to the practice of textile conservation.

Justine Wuebold has worked in museums and cultural heritage for over ten years, with specialized knowledge in collections care, conservation, and green museum practices. She holds a dual Masters in Museum Studies and Business Administration from John F. Kennedy University where she penned her thesis on Sustainable Materials in Collections Care, and previously earned a Bachelors in Art History from San Francisco State University. Justine currently volunteers for the AIC Sustainability Committee and the AIC Materials Working Group.

I am currently Assistant Professor of Artifacts Conservation at Queen's University and a doctoral candidate at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto. My research areas are coatings on metals, modern materials, and the history of metals technology.

Lindsey K Williams (she/her) is a Conservation Technician in Book and Paper at Northwestern University Libraries. She is a graduate of the University of Edinburgh with an MSc in Global Art History and a specialization in medieval material culture. Archaeology, art law, sustainability, and the social roles of objects are a few of her additional research pursuits. Her past publications focus on Medievalism in pop culture, and she is an active member of the AIC's Sustainability Committee and produces the Committee's monthly "Green Tea" podcast.

Ellie is a Paper and Textiles Conservation Intern at the National Park Service, Museum Conservation Services.

I am a pre-program conservation student open for conservation technician and collections management contracts based in Los Angeles beginning in December. I am currently completing a contract at the Margaret Herrick Library dedicated to rehousing the Richard Balzer Pre-Cinema Collection. I have worked in art institutions and libraries for 7 years, over 2 of which have been spent earning pre-program conservation hours. I am an alumna of the Getty Post-Baccalaureate Conservation program, where I finished my chemistry pre-requisites, interned with three different institutions, and contributed to two research projects at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. The research projects were concerning Oddy testing of different printing inks at various stages of off-gassing on museum labels and the identification and conservation of plastics in contemporary museum collections. The research on plastics is ongoing. I also presented research on contested monuments, entitled Contested Care: Two problematic monuments at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, with a pre-program colleague at the American Institute for Conservation Annual Meeting of 2022. Additionally, I was a Semifinalist for the Fulbright U.S. student program for 2023-2024, based on an independent research proposal I submitted to perform oral history research with the National Ethnographic Museum of Rwanda. Skills and experience: contemporary materials, plastics, library and archives, rare books, objects and mixed media in archival collections, outdoor sculpture maintenance, preventive conservation, environmental monitoring, pest management and remediation, rehousing, condition surveys, photo-documentation and processing, exhibition installation, conservation and cultural heritage research, grant research, general writing and editing Please let me know of any projects or opportunities you have available! 

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Samantha Springer is a conservator of sculpture and three-dimensional objects with a particular interest in working with living artists of contemporary art that are typically marginalized and underrepresented in Western institutional collections. As owner and principal conservator of Art Solutions Lab based in the Portland, Oregon area, Springer works toward providing ethical and practical solutions to collection stewards who seek the guidance of a conservation practitioner. 

Nick joined us in November 2022 as our Operations Assistant. A recent graduate from American University, Nick received his BA in International Relations and Sociology, and is very interested in how conservation can spur unlikely conversations and connections between individuals and communities. He looks forward to interacting with AIC members and becoming more familiar with the conservation community. Relatively new to the field, Nick has held various roles across sectors and institutions such as Columbia University’s Council for European Studies, FreshFarm DC, and American University’s School of International Service. He is excited to bring themes from his past roles, such as sustainability, into the field of conservation. Outside of work, Nick enjoys spending time going on hikes, learning recipes, watching informational videos about geography and history, and all things music.

Christina Cain is the Emergency Programs Manager for the Foundation for Advancement in Conservation, where she manages the National Heritage Responders and Alliance for Response initiatives. Christina holds a Master of Science degree in Museum and Field Studies, has over 26 years of experience in collections management in art and anthropology museums, and has been involved in emergency management for cultural institutions for the last 13 years. She is also the co-chair of the Colorado Cultural and Historic Resources Task Force, the Colorado AFR network, and Emergency Preparedness Chair for the Colorado-Wyoming Association of Museums