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Staff: Resume: Frames and Gilded Objects

Ann L. Kennedy Haag
Chief Conservator of Frames and Gilded Objects

Professional Experience

2006 - Present
Chief Conservator of Frames and Gilded Objects, The Chicago Conservation Center, Chicago, Illinois

1987 - 2002
Apprentice to:

  • Ralph G. Kennedy (Retired)
  • Mary H. Kennedy (Retired)
  • Kennedy Furniture and Decorative Arts Conservation Ltd. Mount Carroll, Illinois 61030

Training included all aspects of Furniture and Decorative Arts Conservation:

  • Finish: Analysis, cleaning, consolidation, reconstruction, and loss in-fill.
  • Microscopy
  • Multi-compositional objects treated: woods, metals, leathers, composition, gesso, and gilt, lacquered, painted and decorated glass, metal, and woods.
  • To a lesser degree; papers, plastics, and textiles when associated with furniture and objects.

1987
Intern to: Maura Cornman (Former Chief Curator and Conservator, University of Missouri-Columbia Campus Museum)

  • B-72 applications. Consolidation of painted areas on mummy case.
  • Use of UV light as an analytical tool
  • Enzyme cleaning of mummy case
  • Desalination of pottery
  • Cleaning of archaeological bronze
  • Cleaning of glazed terra cottage architectural figure

 

Professional Training Courses

Campbell Center for Historic Preservation
1990-1991

  • Core Curriculum I
  • Core Curriculum II
  • Core Curriculum III

2002

  • Gilding Workshop I, Instructor Huber Baiji (Senior Conservator, Rijksmuseum, Paintings Department)
  • Gilding workshop II, Hubert Baiji

2003

  • Mastering In painting, Instructors James Bernstein and Debra Evans
  • Gilding Workshop III, Restoration, Hubert Baiji

African Academy of Ceramic Conservation
2002

Remedial Conservation Practices for Ceramics and Glass, Tutor, Hazel Botha

Crossroads Leadership Institute
2002-2003
Leadership Institute, John C. Maxwell & Dan Webster Materials

 

Professional Organization Memberships

American Institute for Conservation
Society of Gilders

 

Museums and Organizations Served

Afro-American Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
American Medical Association
Beith House Museum
Battle of Lexington Missouri
Carroll County Historical Society
Chicago Historical Society
Chicago Public Library
Captain Pabst Mansion
Domino Farms Archives
Dowers Grove Museum
Dupage Historical Society
Elmhurst Historical Society
Evanston Historical Society
St. Charles Mo. First State Capital
Fort Union Trading Post
Garfield Farm Museum
Glessner House Museum
Grand Rapids Museum
Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio
Hackley-Hume Mansion
Hermann Historical Society, Deutschiem
Jones Dairy Farm
Milwaukee Art Museum
Muskegon County Museum
Motorola Electronics Museum
Michigan Historical Museum
Mayer May House (Frank Lloyd Wright)
New Madrid Missouri, Hunter-Dawson House
Naper Settlement
Grignon Museum
Haggerty Museum
Ohio Historical Society
Old World Wisconsin
Rockford Historical Society
Sinsinwa Archives, Wisconsin
Steelcase
Tinker Cottage Museum
Villa Louis Mansion

 

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