Cher Goodson
Professional Associate, AIC, President Owner[br]Senior Conservator / Paintings or Benevolent Monarch, or Chief Cook and Bottle Washer

Likes sailing, gardening, playing with my dogs, swimming, reading, jigsaw and crossword puzzles and computer games.

Personal Project: Art Restorations, Inc.
Favorites:
Tool: The long tweezers used to hold cotton that have the ridges in the right spot and the perfect tip and the perfect pressure and are impervious to all solvents, muck and junk.
Artist: R. Magritte
Era/Art Genre: Surrealism (So true to life)
Museum: The Carnegie, Pittsburgh, Pa

What famous work of art would you restore and how?
"Garden of Earthly Delights" by H. Bosch so I could enjoy every detail of this Renaissance "surrealism" and I would proceed veeerrrry carefully with a lot of photographs.
What precious personal item have you restored?
The Victorian doll house that my parents built 35 years ago and decorated in the traditional 1:1 scale, which was subsequently damaged and deteriorated while in storage for a number of years. Not to mention the number of "construction" projects, which were only half-done at the time it went into storage, that needed completion.
What is the oddest item you have restored?
The centerboard for my sailboat.

Melissa Emmert
Senior Manager, Art Historian

Leigh Putman
Manager

Jessica Ragsdale
Manager

Kenn Darity
Professional Associate, AIC, Senior Conservator / Frames and Wooden Artifacts

Likes collecting items from the 1940s and 1950s.

Personal Project: Renovating my house.
Favorites:
Tool: Holbein Airbrush
Artist: Fernand Leger
Era/Art Genre: Cubist Art
Museum: The Louvre
What famous work of art would you want to preserve and what would you do?
Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin in Wisconsin. It would be a life time of work.
What precious personal item have you restored?
A French painting from 1863.
What is the oddest thing you have restored?
A porcelain dinner plate from the Jackie Kennedy Collection.

Stephanie Grant
Conservator / Paintings

Likes reading, and painting.

Personal Project: Developing patience and practicing yoga.
Favorites:
Tool: Really nice pliers from Germany
Artist: Paula Modersohn-Becker for her passion
Era/Art Genre: Renaissance to present day
Museum: Neue Galerie, New York City
What famous work of art would you want to preserve and what would you do?
The paintings in the Stroganoff collection have been sadly neglected due to lack of funds. I would give them a day at the spa.
What precious personal item have you restored?
A two-sided advertisement for B.T. Babbitts' Best Soap, copyright 1892, for my mom.
What is the oddest thing you have restored?
Not odd, but wonderful: A 16th c. painted portrait of European royalty.

Jimmy Young
Horologist (Clocks), Associate Conservator / Objects

Likes photography, collecting clocks.

Favorites:
Tool: Dremel; flex shaft
Artist: David Sanborn
Museum: Smithsonian, Air and Space Museum
If you could restore, conserve one famous work of art, what would it be and why. What would you do?
The robots created by Jacque Droz circa 1780.
What precious personal project have you restored?
#6 Fashion Clock, otherwise known as an American Calendar Clock c. 1800s.
What is the oddest thing you have restored?
Automata bird cage and clock made by Jacque Droz circa 1790.

Michael Allen Cogdell
Associate Conservator / Metals

Likes gardening, bird watching, music and teasing our cat Chi Chi.

Personal Projects: Renovating my 1908 Arts & Crafts Bungalow.
Favorites:
Tool: My 1893 Arm & Hammer Anvil. Without it, a hammer is just a hammer.
Artist: Alexander Calder, David Smith and Henri Moore
Era/Art Genre: 20th Century Sculpture
Museum: Tate Gallery, London, England
What famous work of art would you restore and how?
Any of the Calder mobiles, they have always been a life-long passion of mine.
What precious personal item have you restored?
A wall clock that hung in my grandfather's wood shop in the early 20th century.
What is the oddes item you have restored?
A 1940s O'Keefe & Merritt stove.

Eric Cross
Associate Conservator, Furniture and Wooden Artifacts

Likes building cars.

Personal Projects: Rebuilding an '84 Mustang.
Favorites:
Tool: Screwdriver
Artist: Quentin Tarantino and Carroll Shelby.
Era/Art Genre: Present
Museum: Smithsonian
What famous work of art would you restore and how?
Kitty Hawk. The first plane is such a masterpiece for its era. I wouldn't do anything but preserve and study its simplicity and brilliance.
What precious personal item have you restored?
'84 Mustang
What is the oddest item you have restored?
Wooden toilet seat/shaving table.

Kristen Montoya
Associate Conservator / Decorative Objects

Likes sewing, seeing live music, cooking and collecting box purses.

Personal Project: Set of California Art Pottery dishes that need some love
Favorites:
Tool: Silputty for moldmaking
Artist: Marcel Dzama
Era/Art Genre: Contemporary art - I love to meet the artist
Museum: Fort Worth Modern
What work of art would you preserve and how?
A Kremlin in Russia. There were so many in disrepair and it was very inspiring to see work on a few begin.
What precious personal project have you restored?
I'm working on a small box for a friend that her baby threw to the ground after pushing his crib across the room to get it!
What is the oddest thing you have restored?
Giant neon green lizard.

John Arbour
Conservation Technician / Furniture and Wooden Artifacts

Likes music, woodwork, and motorcyles.

Personal Project: Building custom hardtails, springers, and choppers
Favorites:
Tool: Fireman's chisel
Artist: Julie Speed
Era/ Art Genre: Eastlake, Victoria, Art Nouveau
Museum: Detroit Institute of Arts

What famous work of art would you restore and how?
The Alhambra castle in Spain to maintain its original character throughout the ages.
What precious personal item have you restored?
An ivory and Brazilian rosewood parlor guitar.
What is the oddest item you have restored?
A 100 year old voodoo doll and my life has never been the same!

Seth Jordan
Conservation Technician / Decorative Objects

Likes playing the piano, a challenging chess match, cycling, animal illustration, and portraiture.

Personal Project: Painting my parents house, and if time permits, my own home.
Favorites:
Tool: Minarette - a double ended palette knife that is very versatile
Artist: Bacon, Louis, and Tamayo (on wheat of course)
Era/ Art Genre: Symbolism, Post Impressionism, Surrealism
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

What famous work of art would you restore and how?
Anything on display at the Hermitage Collection in St. Petersburg, Russia. I may need to learn a few more disciplines first though.
What precious personal item have you restored?
My father's Virginia Tech mug that he dropped.
What is the oddest item you have restored?
A small statue of a Chinese man. It appears to be filled with very old hair!

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