Tony Frantz, Conservator in Charge, is leaving the Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation in August 2003 to become Research Scientist in the Museum's newly established science group. He received his undergraduate education at Harvard University (B.A., 1963) and his graduate education in conservation at New York University (M.A., 1974; Certificate in Conservation, 1975). Tony came to the Museum's Objects Conservation Department in 1976 with the monumental task of establishing a modern and professional facility for the treatment and scientific study of three-dimensional works of art. Under his leadership the Department steadily expanded, and with generous funding from the Sherman Fairchild Foundation, Tony supervised the design and construction of the Center's current home, which was completed in August 1992. He has taught physical metallurgy and instrumental analysis at the Conservation Center of New York University's Institute of Fine Arts since 1980, educating a generation of conservation students and providing post-graduate training, and has offered opportunities for professional advancement to an international roster of conservators and conservation scientists. Tony is currently a doctoral candidate in geochemistry at Columbia University.

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Lawrence Becker has been appointed to the new position of Sherman Fairchild Conservator in Charge. A graduate of the Conservation Center of New York University's Institute of Fine Arts, Larry started his career at the Metropolitan Museum in 1980. He left in 1989 to become Conservator of Objects at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. As Chief Conservator at the Worcester Art Museum, a position he has held for the last eight years, he reestablished the Conservation Laboratory founded by George Stout, a pioneer in the field of conservation treatment and technical research. Another major achievement during these years was the technical study, conservation, and reinstallation of the Antioch Mosaics. As an adjunct professor at the Institute of Fine Arts, he was instrumental in establishing advanced examination and treatment courses for archaeological and ethnographic objects.