The National Conservation Summit Agenda

June 27, 2007

Opening Remarks

Anne-Imelda Radice, Director, Institute of Museum and Library Services
Elizabeth Broun, The Margaret and Terry Stent Director, Smithsonian American Art Museum
Lawrence L. Reger, President, Heritage Preservation

Panel 1: Connecting to Expertise

Moderator: H. T. Holmes, Director, Mississippi Department of Archives and History

Panelists: Wendy Jessup, President and Conservator, Wendy Jessup and Associates, Inc.
Julie Page, Co-Coordinator, California Preservation Program
Julie Reilly, Associate Director and Chief Conservator, Gerald R. Ford Conservation Center, Nebraska State Historical Society

Panel 2: Connecting to Technology

Moderator: Timothy Whalen, Director, Getty Conservation Institute

Panelists: Howard Dodson, Director, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library
James Reilly, Director, Image Permanence Institute
Sarah Stauderman, Preservation Manager, Smithsonian Institution Archives

Keynote Address

Allen Weinstein, Archivist of the United States

Swearing in of new Members, National Museum and Library Services Board

Jeffrey H. Patchen, Douglas G. Myers, and Lotsee Patterson

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Panel 3: Connecting to the Public

Moderator: Gwendolyn Wright, Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, and Host of History Detectives

Panelists: Eric Jolly, President, Science Museum of Minnesota
Joyce Hill Stoner, Professor, Art Conservation, University of Delaware
Kathe Hambrick-Jackson, Founder and Executive Director, River Road African American Museum

Panel 4: Connecting to Funders

Moderator: Michael Conforti, Director, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

Panelists: Janine Bowechop, Director, Makah Cultural & Research Center
Gregory Long, President, The New York Botanical Garden
Debbie Hess Norris, Chair and Professor, Department of Art Conservation, University of Delaware

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Closing Address

Francie Alexander, Senior Vice President & Chief Academic Officer, Scholastic Inc.

Additional remarks in the course of the summit were made by Bruce Cole, Chairman, the National Endowment for the Humanities; Dana Gioia, Chairman, the National Endowment for the Arts; and Adair Margo, Chairman, the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities.