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Gerry Wagner Crouse Author

Nancy Odegaard is Conservator at the Arizona State Museum and Professor at the University of Arizona. She has over forty years of experience working with and describing material culture, including countless condition and conservation and treatment reports, exhibit labels, catalog cards, over 100 museum surveys.

She has utilized three scholar residency awards to conduct intellectual research on the parts or vocabularies for handcrafted domestic and decorative objects. In 2001 she conducted research while a research fellow at the Winterthur Library and Archives, in 2007 she continued research while a fellow at the Getty Conservation Institute, and in 2015 she added research as a fellow at ICCROM in Rome. She has maintained an ongoing effort to continue to add to and update her notes through existing glossaries in art history and decorative arts, craft manufacture guides, interviews with specialists, and conservation reference materials.

Her published books include: Curating Human Remains: A Guide for Museums and Academic Institutions, 2006; Old Poisons New Problems: Information and Resource Guide for Contaminated Cultural Materials in Museum Collections, 2005; Material Characterization Tests for Objects of Art and Archaeology, 2nd edition, 2005. Material Characterization Tests for Objects of Art and Archaeology, 2000. A Guide to Handling Anthropological Museum Collections, 1991; Training for Collections Care and Vol 1. Archaeology & Ethnology, 1990.

She has received three Kress Publication Awards from the AIC. She has published over 200 chapters, journal articles, conference proceedings, newsletter pieces, posters, and electronic media. She is an elected fellow of the AIC and IIC, and has been an active member in AAM, ATALM, ICOM.

Gerry Wagner Crouse has worked in illustration and graphic media for over 20 years. She has extensive experience and training with scientific line-drawing illustration as well as 3D animation graphics.

She has worked for the Carnegie Museum of Natural History and Buhl Planetarium, Houston Museum of Natural History Science Planetarium, Louisiana Art and Science Museum, and National Geographic Television. Currently, she works by contract with museums, tribal communities, contract resource management firms, planetariums, and educational agencies. Her work examples include: NASA MMS Mission Outreach, 2015 Houston Museum of Natural History; Construction of Pueblo Grande, 2017 Paleowest Archaeology; Artifact Documentation for Repatriation, 2017 – present, Gila River Indian Community.