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Candis Griggs Hakim has been an Objects Conservator in private practice in the San Francisco Bay Area for over 10 years. She has a Masters in Art Conservation from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. She has worked for numerous institutions around the country and in San Francisco, as well as on archaeological excavations in many parts of the world. Currently she divides her time between her private practice and caring for her two young children. In her practice she treats a wide array of objects - from delicate ethnographic basketry to large outdoor sculpture installations in bronze, steel, and fiberglas. Ms. Hakim has previously served on the BAACG board as Treasurer and President, and is happy to serve the Guild as President once again.
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415-412-1415
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After an academic flirtation with psychology and exposure to clinical work at Napa State Hospital I was lucky enough to come under the wing of J. Desmond Clark who convinced me of the importance of Anthropology and my proclivity for scientific work in that discipline. I graduated from UC Berkeley in 1970 in Anthropology. My emphasis was artifact analysis and conservation. I studied under J.Desmond Clark at the Lowie Museum, now the Phoebe Hearst Museum, cleaning and analyzing lithics for wear patterns and pottery for residues. After graduation I was hired at the California Academy of Science as a Research Assistant to care for the Anthropology and Archaeology collections. These had been originally collected and organized by Alfred Kroeber. My work there was directed to identify materials artifacts were made from and research collections for exhibit. Cleaning and preserving the collections was also a primary task. There I had the good fortune to work first under Ernest Rook, and then Bob Schenk with guidance from F. Clark Howell. Skills I had learned from J. Desmond Clark in dealing with problems of fossil preservation were augmented by Yves Coppans whose instruction was invaluable for my future work in paleoanthropology.
As a graduate student in Anthropology at SFSU a seminar with Leslie A. White led to studies in complex societies and energy use in different civilizations. Conversations with Carlo Cipolla at UC Berkeley diverted my attention to comparative studies with animal societies and an introduction to ethologist John Paul Scott. My position at the Academy of Sciences allowed me to study a wide variety of animals using the fossil, skeleton collections and the wet collections. Steve Gabow encouraged my research in Primatology originally sparked by S.L. Washburn and Phyllis C. Jay at UC Berkeley. Both before and after receiving my MA from SFSU I continued my Museum career working at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, then the De Young Museum and ending at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor. My museum work was punctuated by reports of my laboratory work in various scientific journals including Nature and Radiocarbon (on the Dead Sea Scrolls), Studies in Conservation on glass and ceramic conservation, JAIC on treatments in Anthropology and Archaeology collections, various preprints of the specialty groups on photographic conservation, objects and paintings conservation, a book chapter on the conservation of a Jay DeFeo painting, HOMO on mitochondrial DNA and human evolution, Evolutionary Anthropology (hair in humans and other mammals) Ancient Biomolecules (on ancient DNA preservation and the evolution of the genus Homo and the place of Neandertals in it). In 1995 I took a leave of absence from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco to work for the Whitney Museum of Art in New York to save the Jay De Feo masterpiece, The Rose. Completing that project I accepted a part-time teaching job at SFSU teaching Biological Anthropology. I had taught a class in "Performance in Anthropology" for several semesters at College of Marin, a class that investigated art, dance, music and healing. Since 1995 I have taught a number of classes at SFSU and Biological Anthropology at City College of S.F. In 2000 Lee Davis asked me to organize a conference to bring scientists, museum professionals, Native Americans and health professionals together to address the issue of NAGPRA and pesticides on Native American artifacts. Using my background in museums I organized the talks with a brilliant group of SFSU Anthropology graduate students and edited the talks with chemist Pete Palmer of SFSU and Lee Davis. The talks were published in Collections Forum. I retired from the Fine Arts Museums in 1999 and completed a Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology ending a circle of study begun in the early 1960s. I continue to direct conservation work in my private laboratory and instruct graduate study in restoration and conservation science. |
415-453-9064
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Margaret Geiss-Mooney is a textile and costume conservator in private practice since 1979. Ms. Geiss-Mooney has a B.S. degree in Textiles from the University of California, Davis and has completed coursework for a M.S. degree, also in Textiles. She first became intrigued and then involved with historical textiles and their conservation during her sophomore year while interning at the E. B. Crocker Art Museum (Sacramento) where she worked on the costume collection. During the rest of her academic career, Ms. Geiss-Mooney took courses that would enable her to fully understand textiles from the molecule up and so be able to most successfully preserve and conserve our textile heritage and legacy. She also interned at the M.H. deYoung Museum and at the UC-Davis Art Conservation Laboratory. She has worked on staff at the Cloisters/Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) and at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. In addition to providing a full range of conservation and collection management services, she offers workshops and lectures to all interested parties. Ms. Geiss-Mooney has previously served BAACG as President and Secretary.
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707-763-8694
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Sarah Johnson has worked in the field of furniture restoration for over 15 years. After receiving a BS in Oil Painting from the University of MA, she relocated to the Bay Area in 1995. In San Francisco, Sarah learned the trade of restoration through apprenticeship positions at antique restoration companies, most notably Titon Antiques under proprietor Morten Qwist. Currently Sarah is interning at the OMCA and pursuing a Masters in Art Conservation degree. In private practice in Marin County, Sarah Johnson Antique Restoration specializes in the treatment of fine furniture, clock cases, and gilt frames. She has served on the Board since 2009, previously as a Member at Large, and currently as Recording Secretary.
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415-454-5605
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415-379-5258
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Elisa Stewart is a newcomer to the world of art conservation and restoration. She received a BS in Graphic Design from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in 1995. After working as an Art Director for a magazine, she took some time off from the traditional world of graphic design to pursue an experience in fine art photography. In 2009 she moved abroad to Italy to undergo an intensive one year course of study in restoration with a concentration in painting at Studio Art Centers International under the direction of Roberta Lapucci. While in Italy she had the honor of assisting Nenad Jovanovic in his private restoration studio. Currently in private practice in San Jose, she is looking to further her studies in painting and paper restoration with a Master, or as it is called in the industry “pre-program”.She has recently been appointed as a Member at Large, and currently is the Web Presence Coordinator.
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408-813-0190
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Gawain Weaver is a photograph conservator in private practice in San Anselmo, CA. He received B.A. degrees in art history and chemistry (2001) from Sonoma State University, and an M.A. in art history and diploma in conservation (2005) from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. In 2007, he completed a two-year fellowship in the Advanced Residency Program in Photograph Conservation at the George Eastman House and Image Permanence Institute in Rochester, NY, followed by a year as a researcher at the Image Permanence Institute. In 2008, he returned home to Northern California where he lives today, working as a photograph conservator, teacher, and consultant. In addition to regular workshops, Gawain teaches photograph preservation in the San Jose State University School of Library and Information Science.
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415-446-9138
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Jonathan S. Fisher received his Master of Fine Arts Degree fom the Maryland Institute College Of Art. Jonathon has been an Objects Conservator in the San Francisco Bay area since 1990. He specializes in the conservation, preservation and restoration or art, artifacts and antiques. His clients include private collectors, designers, framers, and cabinet makers; as well as galleries, museums, hotels and restaurants, churches, cemeteries, and historic properties. Jonathan works continually to improve his craft by studying and learning from the most up to date information available, by collaborating with other conservators and by extensive testing of materials.
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650 3670422
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Jena Hirschbein is a pre-program conservator working in paintings and objects in the Bay Area since 2004. She has interned with the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco since August of 2010 in paintings and objects as well as with several conservators in private practice in the Bay Area and beyond. She received a B.A. in Women’s Studies and Archaeology from Smith College in 2002 and has spent the years since working in conservation while taking classes in preparation for a masters in conservation. She loves to travel and combines experience in conservation with adventures away whenever possible, including archaeological fieldwork, conservation surveys and studio art classes abroad. She has been happy to serve as recording secretary since 2008 and is now happy to be a Member at Large for BAACG.
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510 435-1570
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