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Heald, Susan

Textile Conservator

Background And Education

Education And Training

Publications

Selected Publications

Article
- Frankel, Nora, Heald, Susan, Lam, Thomas, Pace, Marcelo R., and Galban, Michael. 2024. "Untangling Indian Hemp: Identifying Woodlands Bast Fibers in Collections." Journal of the American Institute for Conservation, 63, (3) 221–244. https://doi.org/10.1080/01971360.2024.2343973. 2024
- Heald, Susan, George, John, Osmond, Lauren, Elston, Sarah, Kaczkowski, Rebecca, Kavich, Gwenaelle, and Newsome, G. Asher. 2021. "A COVID-Redirect – Investigation and Mitigation of Adhesive Off-gassing and Crystal Formation Inside Exhibition Cases Takes an Unexpected Detour." Collections Quarterly, 11. 2021
- Alvarez-Martin, Alba, George, John, Kaplan, Emily, Osmond, Lauren, Bright, Leah, Newsome, G. Asher, Kaczkowski, Rebecca, Vanmeert, Frederik, Kavich, Gwénaëlle, and Heald, Susan. 2020. "Identifying VOCs in exhibition cases and efflorescence on museum objects exhibited at Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian-New York." Heritage Science, 8. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40494-020-00454-4. 2020
- Ballard, Mary W., Newsome, G. Asher, and Heald, Susan. 2019. "An Ongoing Mystery: Copper Kettles And Chilkat Blue." The Textile Specialty Group Postprints, 29 99–113. 2019
- Solazzo, Caroline, Heald, Susan, Ballard, Mary W., Ashford, David A., DePriest, Paula T., Koestler, Robert J., and Collins, Matthew. 2011. "Proteomics and Coast Salish blankets: a tale of shaggy dogs?" Antiquity, 85 1418–1432. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00062141. 2011
Chapter
- Madden, Odile, Hodgkins, Robyn, and Heald, Susan. 2014. "Substituting SPME for noses in the detection and quantification of mothball vapors from textiles in the National Museum of the American Indian collection." In Preprints of the International Council of Museums Conservation Committee (ICOM-CC) 17th Triennial Conference, Melbourne, Australia, September 15-19 2014. ICOM-CC. 2014
- Summerour, Rebecca, Heald, Susan, Owens, Sarah Jane Grace, Madden, Odile, and Giaccai, Jennifer A. 2013. "Rubberized flannel in contemporary beaded powwow regalia." In Preprints of the 9th North American Textile Conservation Conference, San Francisco, California, November 12-15, 2013. 183–198. 2013
- Heald, Susan and Madden, Odile. 2011. "Investigations into Naphthalene Mitigation on Museum Objects." In NATCC Preprints, 8th North American Textile Conservation Conference, Oaxaca, Mexico. 291–297. 2011
Conference Paper
- Heald, Susan, Frankel, Nora, Keruzec, Annaïck, Doxsey-Whitfield, Megan, Kavich, Gwénaëlle, Lam, Thomas, and Little, Nicole. 2018. "A Sizable Sooty Soiled Surface: Analyzing and Evaluating Methods for Surface Cleaning a Large Painted Muslin." from AIC Wooden Artifacts Group Postprints from American Institute for Conservation's 46th Annual Meeting, Houston, Texas. Washington, DC: American Institute for Conservation. 2018
- Frankel, Nora, Heald, Susan, Lam, Thomas, Pace, Marcelo R., and Galban, Michael. 2018. "Untangling Indian Hemp: Identifying Common Woodlands Plant Fibers." from Wooden Artifacts Group 2018 Postprints of the Wooden Artifacts Session, Joint Research & Technical Studies and Wooden Artifacts Session; Joint Textiles and Wooden Artifacts Session; Joint Research & Technical Studies Textiles Session, 46th Annual Meeting American Institute for Conservation 2018, Houston Texas. 2018
- Gunnison, Ann Turner, Heald, Susan, Tsang, Jia-sun, Lee, Yoonjo, and Giaccai, Jennifer. 2010. "Preventive Conservation and Identification of Plastics of a Recent Acquisition at the National Museum of the American Indian." from The American Institute for Conservation of Historic & Artistic Works (AIC). 21–32. Washington, DC: The American Institute for Conservation of Historic & Artistic Works (AIC). Objects Specialty Group Postprints. 2010

Presentations

Presentation
- Birdsall, Erin R., Newsome, G. Asher, Heald, Susan, and Kavich, Gwenaelle. 2024. Investigating volatile contaminant mitigation and object cleaning methods via in-situ¬ SPME sampling [presentation]. 72nd ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics, Anaheim, California: American Society for Mass Spectrometry.

Contact

Location

National Museum of the American Indian Department