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  • Monthly Member Meetups - 2025
    Contains 8 Component(s) Includes Multiple Live Events. The next is on 09/12/2025 at 2:00 PM (EDT)

    Connect with your fellow members!

    Our Monthly Member Meetup is a series of hour-long monthly events that we’ll host second Fridays at 2pm ET. Topics may cover sustainability, private practice, volunteering, the wiki, emergency planning, introductions to our various committees and groups, and more. Our goal is to offer you a social outlet and way to connect with other members. We welcome suggestions for topics and guest hosts! Send us your ideas at membership@culturalheritage.org. 

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  • (WAG Lecture Series) Upholstery Conservation: Introductions and Case Studies
    Contains 1 Component(s) Includes a Live Web Event on 06/24/2025 at 12:00 PM (EDT)

    Join AIC's Wooden Artifacts Group for its lecture series

    Join the Wooden Artifacts Group for a lunchtime webinar with upholstery and furniture conservators Heather Porter, Cathy Silverman, and Nadine Kilchhofer. This event will feature two separate talks regarding an introduction to the field of upholstery conservation followed by an explanation of how to examine upholstery with treatment case studies as well as a Q&A session.

    Don't miss this opportunity to enhance your understanding of upholstery conservation in this engaging online session!

    This session is free for WAG members, $10 for AIC members, and $20 for the public. The webinar will be recorded and available for later viewing for registered attendees.

    Nadine Kilchhofer

    Conservator

    Nadine Kilchhofer combines practical and theoretical knowledge through her apprenticeship as an upholsterer and her studies in textile conservation. She completed her studies in 2005 at the Abegg-Stiftung and the Bern University of Applied Sciences in Switzerland. In 2006-2008 she acquired knowledge of upholstery conservation through a fellowship and a subsequent project position with Nancy Britton, Emeritus Upholstery Conservator, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. After working as a freelance textile and upholstery conservator in Bern, she returned to the Abegg-Stiftung, a renowned textile museum, in 2021. There she works as a conservator in the textile studio as part of the management team and as a lecturer. At the same time, she is building up a group of experts consisting of conservators and upholsterers in German-speaking countries who deal with historical upholstery.

    Heather Porter

    Upholstery Conservator

    Heather Porter is a freelance upholstery conservator in London. Since graduating in 2001 with an MA in Upholstery Conservation from the Royal College of Art/Victoria & Albert Museum Conservation programme she has held various positions in institutions in America and the UK, including the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, The National Trust for Historic Preservation, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Museum of Fine Art, Boston, returning to the UK to the Victoria & Albert Museum and The National Trust. She also spent 5 years in the upholstery trade. She has published, presented, given tours and teaches the ICON Back-to-Basics Upholstery Course for conservators

    Catherine (Cathy) Silverman

    Associate Conservator of Furniture and Wooden Objects

    Yale University Art Gallery

    Cathy Silverman is Associate Conservator of Furniture and Wooden Objects at Yale University Art Gallery. She holds an MA in Furniture Conservation from West Dean College, England. After graduating, Cathy moved to the US where she initially worked in private practice in New York, before beginning a two-year fellowship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She has worked at Yale University Art Gallery since 2018.

  • Textile Specialty Group 2025 Business Meeting
    Contains 1 Component(s) Includes a Live Web Event on 06/18/2025 at 2:00 PM (EDT)

    TSG member updates

    Join us to hear about the Textile Specialty Group updates, budget information, and new officers. Agenda to be shared before the meeting.

  • Wooden Artifacts Group 2025 Business Meeting
    Contains 3 Component(s) Includes a Live Web Event on 06/18/2025 at 1:00 PM (EDT)

    Business Meeting for WAG members

    Join us to hear about the Wooden Artifacts Group updates, budget information, and new officers. Agenda to be shared before the meeting.

  • Architectural Specialty Group 2025 Business Meeting
    Contains 1 Component(s) Includes a Live Web Event on 06/17/2025 at 11:00 AM (EDT)

    Architecture Business Meeting for ASG members

    Join us to hear about the Architecture Specialty Group updates, budget information, and new officers. Agenda to be shared before the meeting.

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  • Objects Specialty Group 2025 Business Meeting
    Contains 1 Component(s) Includes a Live Web Event on 06/16/2025 at 4:00 PM (EDT)

    Business Meeting for OSG members

    Join us to hear about the Objects Specialty Group updates, budget information, and new officers. Agenda to be shared before the meeting.

  • Research and Technical Studies 2025 Business Meeting
    Contains 1 Component(s) Includes a Live Web Event on 06/16/2025 at 1:00 PM (EDT)

    Business Meeting for RATS members

    Join us to hear about the Research & Technical Specialty Group updates, budget information, and new officers. Agenda to be shared before the meeting.

  • Conservators in Private Practice 2025 Business Meeting
    Contains 1 Component(s) Includes a Live Web Event on 06/13/2025 at 12:00 PM (EDT)

    Business Meeting for CIPP members

    Join us to hear about the Conservators in Private Practice group updates, budget information, and new officers. Agenda to be shared before the meeting.

  • Paintings Specialty Group 2025 Business Meeting
    Contains 1 Component(s) Includes a Live Web Event on 06/12/2025 at 12:00 PM (EDT)

    Business Meeting for PSG members

    Join us to hear about the Paintings Specialty Group updates, budget information, and new officers. Agenda to be shared before the meeting.

  • Book and Paper Group 2025 Business Meeting
    Contains 1 Component(s) Includes a Live Web Event on 06/10/2025 at 2:00 PM (EDT)

    Book and Paper Business Meeting for BPG members

    Join us to hear about the Book and Paper Specialty Group updates, budget information, and new officers. Agenda to be shared before the meeting.