Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute / Smithsonian National Museum of American History Plastic / Smithsonian American Art Museum / Nan Tucker McEvoy Auditorium Smithsonian American Art Museum / University of Maryland Is It Real / /
Organization
Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute’s Center for Species Survival / Lunder Conservation Center / University of Maryland / Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute / Smithsonian Institution / National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration / Test Lab / Smithsonian / Cultural Heritage Agency / /
Person
Michelle Delaney / Mike Biddle / Mary Brooks / Deborah Mielewski / Nancy Wallace / Cory Bernat / Susan Freinkel / Molly McGath / Vozenilek / Thea van Oosten / John Kress / Technological Historian / Bill Ayrey / Odile Madden / Pierre Comizzoli / Robert Friedel / G. Wayne Clough / Robert Koestler / Nan Tucker McEvoy / Bill Moggridge / / /
Position
Program Director / Marine Debris Group / Head of Modern Materials Research / Science Writer and Author / Chemical Engineer and Technical Leader of Plastics Research Group / Independent Consultant / Curator / President / Director / Historian / Professor of History / Photographer / Historian and Manager / Secretary / Senior Conservation Scientist / Historian / RE-CONSUME Session Chair / RENEWABILITY Session Chair / Gamete Biologist / Professor of History / Senior Conservation Scientist of the Netherlands / Program Director / /
THE AGE OF PLASTIC INGENUITY + RESPONSIBILITY An Interdisciplinary Symposium Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age…and now the Age of Plastic. The Smithsonian Institution is leveraging its collections—arguably the world’