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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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Contains 4 Component(s) Includes a Live Web Event on 07/09/2025 at 1:00 PM (EDT) Recorded On: 06/25/2024
Information for AIC's volunteers
Join us on July 9 at 1:00pm ET for an orientation session for both current and prospective volunteers. The session will be recorded and slides shared.
In this session, we will:
- Orient you to our leadership and organizational structure
- Provide you with resources to be effective in your role
- Share how our groups work together
- Offer overviews of timelines, budgeting, events, funding, and planning
- Explain our communications tools and documentation rules
Please share any questions in advance with Bonnie Naugle at bnaugle@culturalheritage.org.
Bonnie Naugle
AIC Communications & Membership Director
American Institute for Conservation
Bonnie Naugle joined AIC in 2012. As Communications & Membership Director, she manages our print and online publications, annual meeting print materials, email communications, and oversees the membership team. She also manages our websites and web resources, including the online community, blog, CoOL, resource hub, and wiki. She works with many AIC volunteers and enjoying giving them tools and support to help accomplish their goals.
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Contains 1 Component(s) Includes a Live Web Event on 06/27/2025 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.
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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 (prices will adjust automatically as you register). 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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Business Meeting for WAG members
Join us to hear about the Wooden Artifacts Group updates, budget information, and new officers.
WAG Business Meeting Agenda
June 18, 2025
- Welcome – Cathy Silverman
- Approval of 2024 Minutes
- Update form AIC Board – Greg Bailey
- AIC Staff Update - Bonnie Naugle
- Chair’s Update – Cathy Silverman
- Introduction of new WAG officers
- Thanks to departing and continuing officers and volunteers
- Online events
- Workshops (with update about Craft and Conservation from Kathy Gillis)
- Program Chair reflections on WAG at 2025 Annual Meeting – Caroline Shaver
- Treasurer’s Update – Liz Peirce
- AOB
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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.
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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.
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