The Mechanics of Art Materials and its Future in Heritage Science: A Seminar and Symposium A special two‐day event organized by the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum Conservation Institute and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts

Schedule (accurate as of 06/17/2016) Monday, October 24, 2016 at 8:00am ‐ Tuesday, October 25, 2016 at 6:00pm (EST)

October 24, 8:00am‐6:00pm

8:00‐8:45 Registration 8:45‐9:00 Welcome and Event Logistics, Dawn Rogala (SI) 9:00‐9:15 Introduction, Mikkel Scharff (KADK) 9:15‐4:00 Mechanical Properties seminar, Marion Mecklenburg (SI, emeritus) Includes morning and afternoon coffee breaks, lunch, and question and answer period 4:00‐6:00 Reception, on site

October 25, 8:00am‐5:30pm

8:00‐8:45 Registration 8:45‐9:00 Welcome, Robert Koestler (SI) 9:00‐9:15 Opening remarks, Al Horvath (SI) 9:15‐9:45 Introduction and Event Logistics, Dawn Rogala

Morning Session 9:45‐10:15 Cecil Andersen (Assistant Professor, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts) and Laura Fuster‐López (Professor, Polytechnic University of Valencia) Case study 1: mechanical studies of treated/altered materials 10:15‐10:45 Roman Kozłowski (Professor, Jerzy Haber Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences) Case study 2: new mechanics models for paintings on wood and canvas, polychrome sculpture 10:45‐11:15 Stina Ekelund (conservator and researcher, Netherlands Institute for Scientific Research in collaboration with the Rijksmuseum, Eindhoven and Delft Universities of Technology, and Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands) Case study 3: Climate4Wood Project, applying collections monitoring data to modeling programs 11:15‐11:30 Coffee/tea break, on site 11:30‐12:00 Nobuyuki Kamba (Special Senior Fellow, Tokyo National Museum) Case study 4: microenvironments and custom shipping crates for Asian art materials 12:00‐12:30 Poul Klenz Larsen (civil engineer and senior advisor, National Museum of Denmark) and Morten Ryhl‐Svendsen (Associate Professor, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts) Case study 5: mechanical studies and energy‐efficient storage environments for museums 12:30‐1:00 Question and Answer period 1:00‐2:00 Lunch, on site

Afternoon Session 2:00‐2:30 Michał Lukomski (Head of Preventive Conservation Research, Getty Conservation Institute) Vision topic 1: future studies of material response to changes in temperature and humidity 2:30‐3:00 Alice Carver‐Kubik (Photographic Research Scientist, Image Permanence Institute, Rochester Institute of Technology) Vision topic 2: applying mechanics studies to materials outside traditional fine arts (such as library and archive collections) 3:00‐3:30 Ken Shull (Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University/Art Institute of Chicago Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts) Vision topic 3: applying mechanics studies to the soft/pliable materials in modern art collections 3:30‐3:45 Coffee/tea break, on site 3:45‐4:15 Lukasz Bratasz (Head of Sustainable Conservation Laboratory, Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage, Yale University) Vision topic 4: the future of risk assessment and collections monitoring 4:15‐4:45 Question and Answer period 4:45‐5:45 Panel: advancing stakeholder participation in mechanics research and application (speakers TBA) 5:45‐6:00 Closing remarks

For more information, visit the Museum Conservation Institute home page at www.si.edu/mci.