Conservation Publications

• Resurrecting a Giant: Using solvent gels and aqueous systems to restore Villanova University's "Triumph of David"

deGhetaldi, K., B. Baade, Z. Voras, and E. Wroczynski. 2017. In Gels in the Conservation of Art, eds. L. Angelova, B. Ormsby, J. Townsend, and R. Wolbers. London: Archetype. 157-164

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• Highlights of Work in Private Car, Grand Isle

Blog post for Shelburne Museum Blog

28 June 2016

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• "Cavity Supports for Composite Objects with Elements Protruding from Underside"

Article on STASHc (Storage Techniques for Art, Science, and History collections) website

Also presented in STASH Flash session of AIC 42nd Annual Meeting 

13 May 2016

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• "How is it up there in the heavens?"

Blog post on The Door to Shangri La

3 September 2015

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• University of Delaware Department of Art Conservation "behind the scenes" e-blast

23 November 2014

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• University of Delaware Art Conservation Student Blog Post: "Historic Interiors"

Highlighting projects from summer internship at Allyson McDermott Studio

29 August 2014

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• "Mapping It"

Blog post on Conserving a Giant: Resurrecting Pietro da Cortona's Triumph of David

25 October 2013

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• "Examination"

Contribution to the Lexicon of the AIC Wiki

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• “It Could Not Use a Little Salt: a detailed investigation of the chemical and physical properties of soluble salt formation with respect to their effect on 19th-century whiteware”
  

Presented at Middle AtlanticArchaeological Conference VirginiaBeach, VA, 22-25 March 2012

Winner of Student Paper Competition Award

Published in the  Journal of Middle Atlantic Archaeology, Volume28 2012: 39-51

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Conservation Presentations

• Mapping the Big Picture: Time-lapse documentation with GoPro cameras--a method for monitoring light in historic interiors

Presented at a Roundtable at the International Symposium on Preventive Conservation in Historic Houses and Palace-Museums: Assessment Methodologies and Application

Palace of Versailles, France, 29 Nov- 1 Dec 2017

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• "Derailing" the Myth of Gilded Age Decoration in the Grand Isle Private Car: a case study of the painted ceiling panels

Presented at the 6th Architectural Paint Research Conference

Columbia University, NYC, 15-17 March 2017

Forthcoming Archetype Publication

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• Treatment and Deterioration Phenomena of Complex Surfaces of Syrian and Moroccan Decoration in Hawai'i

Presented at Poster Session of Interim Conference ICOM-CC Historic and Modern Assemblages: Treatment of Wood-based Multimedia Artworks/ Interiors in Context

Forthcoming ICOM conference publication

University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

8-12 April 2016

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• “Flying from what? Why, a bit of painted wood:" A Cross -disciplinary Analysis of Dummy Boards and Deception in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia

Co-authored with Katie McKinney, Lois F. McNeil Fellow, Winterthur Program in American Culture

Presented at  Very Bad Things: Material Culture and Disobedience, Emerging Scholars in Material Culture Symposium, 2015, Winterthur Museum

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• "Silent No More: The Material and Art Historical Analysis of an American Dummy Board"

Selected presenter for the Association of North American Graduate Programs in Conservation (ANAGPIC) conference, April 2015

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• “Conservation of a 17th-century Baroque Oil Painting as a Collaborative Research and Instructional Tool”
  

Co-Author for Poster Session at AIC 42nd Annual Meeting: Conscientious Conservation, San Francisco, CA, 28-31 May 2014