Debbie Hess Norris's schedule for AIC-PMG Winter Meeting 2025

AIC’s Photographic Materials Group is excited to host the 2025 PMG Winter Meeting. The program is below and will be updated with pre-session events, like tours and other options. Browse the rates and make sure you register before they go up!

Debbie Hess Norris

Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation

Chair of the Art Conservation Department and Professor of Photograph Conservation

Wilmington, DE

https://artcons.udel.edu

About me

Debra Hess Norris (she/her), Chair of the Department of Art Conservation, University of Delaware (UD), professor of photograph conservation and Director of the Winterthur/UD Program in Art Conservation (WUDPAC) for 25+ years, has authored 45 articles/ book chapters on photographic materials preservation, and has led preservation initiatives and 165+ workshops worldwide from China to Cuba. With Jennifer Jae Gutierrez, she co-edited, Issues in the Conservation of Photographs (2010). She is a co-editor for the upcoming Routledge publication, Conservation of Photographs. She serves on many national boards and advisory councils. She has secured more than $33 million in external grants and gifts and lectured widely on cultural heritage preservation and advocacy. Norris was chair of Heritage Preservation (2003- 2008) and president of the American Institute for Conservation (AIC) (1993-97). Norris co-led the Middle East Photograph Preservation Initiative and helped to establish the Iraqi Institute for the Conservation of Antiquities and Heritage in Iraq. She has worked with APOYOnline to develop preservation workshops across Latin America.

In 2002, Norris was inducted into UD’s Alumni Wall of Fame. She has received the AIC Rutherford John Gettens Merit Award for outstanding service (1998), the Sheldon and Caroline Keck Award for excellence in the education of conservation professionals (2004), the AIC University Products Award for distinguished achievement in conservation (2008), and the College Art Association/AIC Award for Distinction in Scholarship and Conservation (2016). In 2018, Norris was named a Francis Alison Scholar, UD’s highest faculty honor, and in 2024 she received the FAIC Forbes Medal for distinguished contributions to conservation internationally. She has served in many academic leadership positions, including currently interim Dean for the College of Arts and Sciences. Norris received her MS in Conservation from WUDPAC and an undergraduate degree in chemistry, art history, and art from her beloved UD.