User:RPArenstein

RPArenstein is the username for Rachael Perkins Arenstein, AIC's e-Editor who oversees development of this wiki site.

Contact Information

Use this link to contact Rachael for wiki or other AIC online platforms. For other professional matters Rachael's contact information is available through her A.M. Art Conservation website or AIC's online directory.

Work Experience

After working at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, the American Museum of Natural History and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rachael moved into private practice and co-founded A.M. Art Conservation, LLC] in 2009. Visit A.M. Art Conservation's entry in the AIC wiki History of Conservation.

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Internships

Rachael completed internships at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum and the Israel Museum as well as other international institutions.

Education

Rachael’s degree in art conservation is from the University of London where she studied at the Institute of Archaeology, UCL. She received her B.A. in Near Eastern Studies and Archaeology from Cornell University where she wrote her honors thesis on Dendrochronology, and excavated at Tel Miqne-Ekron in Israel.

Professional Affiliations

Rachael is a Professional Associate member of the American Institute for Conservation (AIC). She is the AIC E-editor and the Co-Chair of the Integrated Pest Management Working Group.

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COMPARISON OF SYSTEMS

CATEGORIES OF SENSITIVITY	SELECTED EXAMPLES	ALLOWABLE DEVIATION IN RELATIVE HUMIDITY
Category 1: High restriction	panel paintings elephant ivory lacquerware	±5% from target
Category 2: Mode rate restriction	furniture painted organics ethnographic objects	±10% from target
Category 3: Low restriction	wooden agricultural implements baskets	±15% from target
Category 4: Minimal restriction	stable decorative metals glass ceramics	±20% from target

COST (greatest to least expense)	FORCED ENTRY (greatest to least attack resistance)	BALLISTICS (least to greatest attack resistance)	BOMB RESISTANCE (greatest to least resistance)
Polycarbonate Monolithic acrylic Glass/polycarbonate - air gap and desiccant - glass clad - air gap Glass laminate (PVB) Monolithic glass	Polycarbonate Glass/polycarbonate (all systems are equal) Acrylic/glass laminate Monolithic glass	Glass/polycarbonate (all systems are equal) Glass laminate (PVB) ) Acrylic/polycarbonate ) Monolithic glass	Polycarbonate Laminated Glass Monolithic Glass Glass/Polycarbonate (all systems are equal)

Primary Organizer	Subgroup of Primary Organizer	Series Title	Number	Conference Title	Primary City	Country	Start Date (yyyy/mm/dd)	Primary Subject	Secondary Subject	Tertiary Subject	Notes
Institut National du Patrimone	--	--	--	Public art: Legal status, maintenance and conservation	Paris	France	2019.10.08	General Conservation Issues	Public art	Legal Issues	Notes
ICOM-CC	Graphic Documents and Photographic Records	Interim Meeting	--	--	Ludwigsburg	Germany	1998.04.20	Paper	--	--	--
ICON	Textile Group	Annual Forum	--	Mind the gap: Structural and aesthetic options for the treatment of loss in textiles	London	England	2009.04.27	Textiles	--	--	--
Theatre Europe	OISTAT			Costume preservation in museum, theatre and fashion	Breda	Netherlands	2004.04.04	Textiles
State Academy of Art and Design Stuttgart				Wet wood colloquium	Stuttgart	Germany	2006.05.12	Wood	Waterlogged materials
Academic Materials Research Laboratory of Painted Artworks (ALMA)		Interdisciplinary Conferences	1st	New methods and topics in artwork analysis	Prague	Czech Republic	2006.11.07	Analysis	Paintings
Academic Materials Research Laboratory of Painted Artworks(ALMA)		Interdisciplinary Conferences	2nd	Art and material aspects in the evaluation of the origin and age of a work of art	Prague	Czech Republic	2008.110.3	Analysis	Paintings
North American Textile Conservation Conferences		Biennial Conference	1st	Fabric of an exhibition:An interdisciplinary approach	Ottawa	Canada	1997.09.22	Textiles
North American Textile Conservation Conferences		Biennial Conference	2nd	Conservation Combinations	Ashville,NC	USA	2000.03.29	Textiles
North American Textile Conservation Conferences		Biennial Conference	3rd	Strengthening the bond:Science and textiles	Philadelphia,PA	USA	2002.04.05	Textiles
British Museum	Department of Scientific Research	Mellon Symposium	2nd	In situ technical imaging for art and archaeology	London	England	2010.07.15	Analysis
British Museum	Department of Scientific Research	Mellon Symposium	1st	The technical examination of Old Master drawings	London	England	2010.05.20	Analysis	Paper
British Museum	Department of Scientific Research	Mellon Symposium	3rd	Silver and gold: investigating metalpoint drawing	London	England	2015.09.25	Analysis	Paper
British Museum	Department of Scientific Research	Mellon Symposium	4th	Textiles from the Silk Road in museum collections: Scientific investigations and conservation challenges	London	England	2018.12.10	Analysis	Textiles
British Museum	Department of Scientific Research	Mellon Symposium	5th	A closer look at murals: Recent advances in the conservation and scientific investigation of wall paintings	London	England	2019.05.30	Analysis	Murals
Clyfford Still Museum Research Center	Getty Conservation Institute	Clyfford Still Museum Research Center Symposium	2nd	Abstract Expressionism: Time, intention, conservation, and meaning	Los Angeles,CA	USA	2015.11.12	Paintings	Philosophy
Doerner Institute	Akademie der Bildenden Künste München/Academy of Fine Arts Munich			Tempera painting between 1800 and 1950. Experiments and innovations from the Nazarene Movement to abstract art	Munich	Germany	2018.03.15	Paintings
China Cultural Connect	Royal Museums Greenwich	Heritage Conferences	4th	Asiatic traditional painting: Its history and conservation	Greenwich	England	2013.10.18	Paintings	Far Eastern art
	National Gallery London			Rembrandt Now: Technical practice, conservation and research	London	England	2014.11.13	Paintings
Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie/Netherlands Institute for Art History				Symposium Restauratiegeschiedenis	the Hague	Netherlands	2010.02.18	History of conservation