Mary Clerkin Higgins - Professional Activities

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATE of the American Institute for Conservation (AIC)

2013

• Program Chair, St. Augustine Conference, American Glass Guild
• Presentation: "Harry Clarke and The Geneva Window", American Glass Guild 2013 Saint Augustine
• Editor, AGG 2013 St. Augustine Pre-Prints
• Exhibition Designer, American Glass Now: 2013, Second Juried Show of the American Glass Guild, St. Augustine Art Association

2012

• Presentation: “Kiki Smith and the Eldridge Street Synagogue”, AGG Pittsburgh Conference
• Exhibition Designer, American Glass Now: 2012, First Juried Show of the American Glass Guild, William Penn Hotel, Pittsburgh

2011

• Instructor, "Conservation Gluing Techniques", American Glass Guild Asheville Conference (July)
• Presenter, “Conservation of Harry Clarke’s Geneva Window,” Corpus Vitrearum Forum, Lisbon, Portugal (September)
• Invited Conference Speaker, Corpus Vitrearum Belgium, Liege (November), “Kiki Smith and the Eldridge Street Synagogue”
• Board Member, American Glass Guild

2010

• President, American Glass Guild (AGG)
• “Conservation of John La Farge Window at the Detroit Institute of Arts,” Paper, AGG Detroit Conference

2009

• President, American Glass Guild
• Program Chair, Buffalo Conference, American Glass Guild

2008

• Vice-president, American Glass Guild
• Program Chair, Philadelphia Conference, American Glass Guild

2007

• "Stained Glass Conservation" Lecture, Stained Glass Symposium, New Orleans, LA
• Stained Glass Lecture and Workshop, Yeshiva University Museum, NYC
• Board Member, American Glass Guild

2006

• "Stained Glass Conservation; Sometimes it IS Braine Surgery: The conservation of a 13th century panel from St. Yved, Braine, France for the Saint Louis Art Museum", A lecture presented at American Glass Guild Albany meeting
• Board Member, American Glass Guild

2005

• "Harry Clarke and His Architectural Glass", A lecture given at a one-day conference on stained glass sponsored by the American Glass Guild and The Brooklyn Conservation Center.
• Stained Glass Conservation Lecture; Conservation Center of the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
• A Founding Board Member, American Glass Guild

2003

• Stained Glass Conservation Workshop; with Marie Foucault Phipps; Historic Denver, Denver CO
• Stained Glass Conservation Lecture; Conservation Center of the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU

2001

• Stained Glass Conservation Lecture; Conservation Center of the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU

1999

• One-Day Seminar on Stained Glass Conservation; Conservation Center of the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU

1998

• Glass & Stained Glass Conservation Workshop, Ford Conservation Center, Omaha, NE.  Primary Instructor of weeklong workshop with Julie Reilly, Deborah Long and Dr. Chandra Reedy
• “Walter Cole Brigham and Marine Mosaics”, paper presented at the Interim Meeting of the ICOM-CC Working Group of Glass, Ceramics and Related Materials; Helsinki, Finland

1997

• Constructing and Conserving Painted Windows, “Saturdays at the Cloisters” Lecture Series
• “Stained Glass Conservation”, Cornelius O’Brien Lecture  (Indiana University), given in Madison, Indiana
• “Walter Cole Brigham and Marine Mosaics”,  paper presented at the American Institute for Conservation  (AIC) Annual Meeting, San Diego

1996

• 1994-96 - Sectretary/Treasurer of Objects Specialty Group (AIC)
• “An Unusual Paint on a 16th Century Silver-Stained Roundel in the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art”, joint paper with Lisa Pilosi, Mark Wypyski, and Christopher McGlinchey.  Forum pour la Conservation et la Restauration des Vitraux, Liege, Belgium
• One-Day Seminar on Stained Glass Conservation; Conservation Center of the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU

1995

• 1994-96 - Sectretary/Treasurer of Objects Specialty Group (AIC)
• Organization with Dr. Mary Shepard of the Didactic Section for the show "The Luminous Image: Painted Glass Roundels in the Lowlands 1480-1560"; The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• The Technique and Conservation of Painted Glass Roundels; “Saturdays at the Cloisters” Lecture Series
• The Conservation of Medieval Silver-Stained Roundels; “Saturdays at the Cloisters” Lecture Series
• The History of Stained Glass; Lecture; The MetropolitanMuseum of Art
• One-Day Seminars on Stained Glass Conservation; Winterthur Art Conservation Program, The U. of Delaware and The Conservation Center of the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University

1994

• 1994-96 - Sectretary/Treasurer of Objects Specialty Group (AIC)
• Issues in Stained Glass Compensation: A Field in Flux; The Annual Meeting of the American Institute for Conservation (AIC), paper given in The Objects Specialty Group session
• Three John La Farge Windows in the Detroit Institute of Arts; paper presented at the International Seminar on Stained Glass of the 19th and 20th Centuries, organized by The Census of Stained Glass Windows in America
• One-Day Seminar on Stained Glass Conservation; Winterthur Art Conservation Program, The U. of Delaware

1993

• One-Day Seminar on Stained Glass Conservation; ConservationCenter of the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU

1992

• "Harry Clarke and the 'Geneva Window': Its History, Technique and Conservation," paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Universities Art Association of Canada
• Lecture and Demonstration of Painting on Glass; Philadelphia Historic Preservation Corporation
• One-Day Seminar on Stained Glass Conservation; Winterthur Art Conservation Program, The U. of Delaware
• Lecture on Stained Glass Technique and Conservation; Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY

1991

• "Uncovering America's Hidden Treasures: The Conservation of the Stained Glass of John La Farge and Louis Comfort Tiffany," paper presented at Fragile Treasures: The Stained Glass of John La Farge and Other Detroit Masterpieces, a symposium held at the Detroit Institute of Arts
• One-Day Seminar on Stained Glass Conservation, Winterthur Art Conservation Program, The U. of Delaware

1990

• "The Conservation of Stained Glass in Museum Collections", Universities Art Association of Canada

1989

• Lecturer on the Stained Glass Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Education Services

1988

• "Stained Glass Conservation", The Annual Meeting of AIC, The Objects Group

1987

• "Introduction to Stained Glass Conservation", The Glass Society, Inc., New York