Topics, WAG session,
2009 AIC annual meeting
Los Angeles, CA

Shop Considerations: Epoxy—Carbon Fiber, Utility and Retreatability
William Ralston, Ralston Furniture Reproductions, Cooperstown, NY; Robert H. Monroe, Gougeon Bros., Bay City, MI

Reduction of Loss in Structural Wooden Elements Through Plate Glass, Carbon Fiber and Unusual Adhesives and Consolidants in the Context of the Menokin Ruin
John G. Lee, Artisan Conservator, Annapolis, MD; Charles A. Phillips, AIC-PA, AIA, Conservator Architect, Winston-Salem, NC; Richard Wolbers, Conservator, Conservation Scientist, Winterthur, DE; Tim Macfarlane, Structural Engineer, Dewhurst Macfarlane Partners, London, UK; Ellen Hagsten, Architectural Conservator, Annapolis, MD; Sarah Pope, Executive Director of The Menokin Foundation

Waterlogged Wood from the USS Monitor: A New Direction for Research and Collaboration
Susanne Grieve, The Mariners Museum, Newport News, VA; Farideh Jalilehvand, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Robert Blanchette, Joel Jurgens, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN; Todd Plaia, Institute of Maritime History, Kensington, MD; Dave Emerson, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, West Boothbay Harbor, ME

A Method of Acoustic Detection of Wood-boring Insect Larvae
Emmanuel Maurin, Laboratoire de Recherche des Monuments Historiques, France; Dominique de Reyer, Laboratoire d’acoustique musicale (UMR Culture-CNRS), France

New Evidence for the Use of Imported Raw Materials in 17th Century Japanese Export Ware
Arlen Heginbotham, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Herant Khanjian, The Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles, CA; Michael Schilling, The Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles, CA

History and Technology : George Washington’s Frame
William Adair, Gold Leaf Studios, Washington, D.C.

As the Carousel Turns: New Ways of Removing Aged Grease and Oil From Shelburne Museum’s Dentzel Carousel
Nancie Ravenel, Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT; Rachel Penniman, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH; Laura Brill, Kress Fellow, Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT; Richard Wolbers, Art Conservation Department, University of Delaware, Newark, DE

Inspired by the French-American Partnership: Louis Majorelle Furniture Treatments at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Kathy Gillis, Sculpture and Decorative Arts Conservator, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA

A Minimally Intrusive Upholstery Method for an Overstuffed Victorian Chair
Donald C. Williams, Conservator, and Michele Pagan, Conservator, Museum Conservation Institute, Smithsonian Institution

Globe Chair, Adhesion and Cohesion: An Interior Problem
Nigel Bamforth, Senior Furniture Conservator, and Dana Melchar, Furniture Conservator, V&A Museum, London

The Black that Never Was: Decoding Color in the Marquetry of J. F. Oeben
Arlen Heginbotham, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Clara von Engelhardt, Furniture Conservator, Leipzig, Germany