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  • Contains 1 Component(s) Includes a Live Web Event on 01/17/2024 at 4:00 PM (EST)

    PCN: Virtual Happy Hour for Emerging Professionals

    Join us for a winter event for students and emerging professionals interested in pursuing preventive conservation.

    Julie Kowalsky

    Director of Collections and Exhibits

    National Museum of the United States Navy

    Co-author of the white paper- Cultural Heritage Emergency Preparedness and Response: Guidelines for the OEHS Professional.

    Samantha Forsko

    Head Registrar

    Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago

    Samantha Forsko is currently the Head Registrar at the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago. She has 15 years of experience working with collecting institutions across the United States to improve preservation practices and support conservation and collections care through institutional planning. In addition to numerous papers, advisories, and teaching and speaking engagements, Samantha has completed nearly 50 assessments for libraries, museums, archives, and other historic sites across nearly 40 of the United States.

    Much of Samantha’s work has focused on making best practices in collections care and registration accessible and achievable, drawing on her deep experience caring for collections, managing high-level loans, leading teams of staff and contractors, implementing large-scale collection moves, and shaping strategic plans and processes. Prior roles include director of collections at the Art Institute of Chicago, collections manager at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and preservation specialist at the Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts.

    Samantha is a current board member and former Vice President of the Association of Registrars and Collections Specialists (ARCS), an active member of the American Association of State and Local History (AASLH)’s Field Services Alliance, and a collections assessor for the Foundation for Advancement in Conservation (FAIC). Samantha holds a BA in Art History, with minors in Studio Art and Chemistry, from Willamette University, and an MA in Arts Management, specializing in archival and museum studies, from Claremont Graduate University. Additionally, she studied painting conservation at Studio Art Centers International in Florence, Italy.

  • Contains 10 Component(s) Includes a Live Web Event on 12/08/2023 at 2:00 PM (EST)

    Connect with your fellow members!

    Our Monthly Member Meetup is a new series of hour-long monthly events that we’ll host every second Friday 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.

    Suzanne Davis

    Senior Associate Curator and Head of the Conservation Department

    Kelsey Museum of Archaeology at the University of Michigan

    Suzanne Davis is a senior associate curator and head of the Conservation Department at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her research focuses primarily on archaeological conservation, but she has also studied and written about gender equity in conservation and museums.

    Jennifer Jarvis

    Book Conservator

    Sheridan Libraries of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore

    Jennifer Jarvis is a book conservator in the Department of Conservation and Preservation at the Sheridan Libraries of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore; she also teaches undergraduate students in the Museums and Society Program at JHU . She holds a diploma in bookbinding from the North Bennet Street School and an M.A. in the Conservation of Library Materials from the College of West Dean, University of Sussex.

    Susan Russick

    Chief Conservator

    Northwestern University Libraries

    Susan Russick first fell in love with conservation in 1991 during a series of internships and volunteer experiences at several Smithsonian museums. After studying conservation at the University of Texas at Austin, her career focused on book and paper conservation at the Library of Congress, the Newberry Library and Northwestern University Libraries, where she is now Chief Conservator. Susan is a Fellow member of the American Institute for Conservation and has shared her knowledge through presentations, teaching classes and hosting interns.

  • Contains 1 Component(s)

    Zoom discussion

    AIC members are invited to join members of the Bylaws Committee and AIC Board of Directors on Thursday, October 26th, from 3-4 p.m. ET to discuss proposed changes to the AIC Bylaws.

  • Contains 1 Component(s)

    Join a panel discussion and Q&A with experts about talking with the media.

    AIC's Outreach Subcommittee (Communications Committee) is leading a virtual roundtable event on conservation and the media on October 4 at 3 pm ET. This hourlong webinar will bring together panelists Sanchita Balachandran, Bailey Kinsky, Anne Edgar, and Robin Cembalest to answer questions and share their expertise around how conservators can work effectively with media professionals and strategies for soliciting media coverage. These professionals will share their perspectives on collaborating with the media and cultural heritage professionals to create media coverage. Attendees will be able to ask the panelists their questions about sharing their work in different media formats and how to develop relationships with media professionals in this informal discussion.

    Sanchita Balachandran

    Director and Associate Teaching Professor

    The Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum and The Johns Hopkins University

    Sanchita Balachandran is a conservator of archaeological materials, and a writer, researcher and teacher dedicated to following the stories of the people of the past. She is currently director of the Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum and Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Balachandran is passionate about sharing the extraordinary work conservators do with a wide range of audiences. She has written for Archaeology Magazine and Hyperallergic, and been featured on Brains On!, the award winning science podcast for kids, as well as Peopling the Past, a podcast about the study of the ancient world. Her research has been featured in The Washington Post and on the front page of The Baltimore Sun, and been featured in the national children’s publication Scholastic Magazine as well as Undark Magazine, in addition to being profiled in numerous Johns Hopkins University publications. She is the proud recipient of the American Institute for Conservation’s Rutherford John Gettens Award (2021).

    Robin Cembalest

    Founder

    Robin Cembalest Editorial Strategies

    Respected journalist, popular Instagrammer, and the former longtime editor of ARTnews, Robin Cembalest teaches arts professionals to communicate effectively across all editorial channels.

    Over 16 years at the helm of ARTnews, Cembalest shepherded the century-old magazine into the digital era, expanding its content and training generations of interns, writers, and editors.

    In 2014, she launched her business Robin Cembalest Editorial Strategies, helping art-world clients to design and implement mission-based content. She offers professional development workshops in writing, social media, and other essential skills at art schools, residencies, museums, professional organizations, and independently on Eventbrite.

    An award-winning writer who has published widely in the art and mainstream press, Cembalest is best known today as @rcembalest, handle of her Instagram and Twitter feeds.

     

    Anne Edgar

    Arts Communications Consultant

    Anne Edgar Associates

    Anne Edgar has publicized the projects and programs of art museums and other non-profit art organizations for more than 25 years.

    Her experience includes more than a decade at the Guggenheim Museum, serving as a consultant to promote key exhibitions (2006 to 2018); extensive work on behalf of Smithsonian museums (Smithsonian American Art Museum, Renwick Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, National Museum of African American History and Culture, American Indian Museum and Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum); Mystic Seaport Museum, CT; the Fabric Workshop and Museum and the Association for Public Art, Philadelphia; and the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth.

    Currently, Anne is promoting the opening of the new riverfront in Memphis, TN, designed by Studio Gang and SCAPE, and was recently retained by the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art to announce the Herzon & de Meuron design of its new home in the city. She is also working to promote the move and name change of the Grey Art Gallery in New York, which, as the Grey Art Museum, moves to a new home designed by Ennead Architects in 2024. She is retained by the Magdalena Abakanowicz Arts & Culture Charitable Foundation.

    She has served on a number of boards, including that of ArtTable (2013-2016) and Sir John Soane’s Museum Foundation, New York (2005 to 2020). Today, she is a member of the Board of Advisors of the Art Museum at the University of Memphis.

    Bailey Kinsky

    Book and Paper Conservator

    Minnesota Historical Society & Valkyrie Conservation

    Bailey Kinsky works as both an institutional and private practice conservator in book and paper conservation.  Currently, she works full-time at the Minnesota Historical Society and part-time in her private practice, Valkyrie Conservation, based out of Stillwater, MN.  She graduated from the Patricia H. and Richard E. Garman Art Conservation Department at SUNY Buffalo State College in 2018.  Until fall of 2022, Bailey was a full-time private practice conservator.  While the pandemic presented a plethora of challenges to a fledgling conservator trying to start a new business, a single article in Minneapolis Star Tribune in the summer of 2021 inundated her studio with work and is still providing leads two years later.  While the experience was overall very positive, retrospectively there were a lot of considerations to take into account that she was not fully prepared for.  In addition to newspaper media, she has also been interviewed for several small podcasts, which have become a popular source for news and information in the last decade.

  • Contains 3 Component(s)

    Webinar series, recorded

    Learn from conservation and preservation professionals from the Foundation for Advancement in Conservation's National Heritage Responders program. By registering, you will be able to attend any of the live webinars in the series and view the recordings of each after the live event.

    Schedule

    Monday, September 25th, 10-11:30 a.m. HST: Health and Safety

    Tuesday, October 3rd, 9-10:30 a.m. HST: Salvaging Objects

    Wednesday, October 4th, 9-10:30 a.m. HST: Salvaging Books, Documents, and Other Paper Materials

  • Contains 17 Component(s)

    In this course participants will learn the essential components of a Long Range Preservation Plan, become familiar with key preventive conservation concepts, and gain skills in both risk assessment and the prioritization of preservation needs.

    A Long-Range Preservation Plan (LRPP) is a core document that both identifies priorities for conservation and preservation projects and outlines a course of action for their completion. The LRPP is a powerful tool for communicating goals and progress with an institution’s board or parent organization, for galvanizing support from administration and staff, and for obtaining grant funding for specific projects. Geared toward small and mid-sized cultural institutions, in this course participants will learn the essential components of a LRPP, become familiar with key preventive conservation concepts, and gain skills in both risk assessment and the prioritization of preservation needs. Through in-class assignments and a recommended 4-6 hours/week of independent work time between sessions, participants will conclude this course with a draft LRPP for their organization.

    Learning Objectives
    By the end of the course, participants will:

    • Know the essential components of a LRPP.
    • Have completed a basic risk assessment for their institution.
    • Learned prioritization strategies for evaluating preservation needs.
    • Have completed a draft LRPP that is unique to their organization.

    Course Instructor

    Nicole Grabow, Director of Preventive Conservation, Midwest Art Conservation Center (MACC)

    Nicole Grabow has worked at MACC since 2006, coming from the Smithsonian Center for Materials Research and Education at the Smithsonian Museum, Washington, DC. Prior to that, she was a Mellon Fellow at the Smithsonian’s new National Museum of the American Indian, located on the Washington DC Mall, and an intern at the Smithsonian’s Freer and Sackler Galleries. She holds a Master of Science from the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation, specializing in Objects Conservation, and a Bachelor of Arts from Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York. Nicole has particular interest in working with Native American communities and on public art projects. She was a MACC Senior Objects Conservator and Preventive Conservator prior to becoming the Director of Preventive Conservation. She is a Certified CAP Assessor and a Fellow of The American Institute for Conservation.

    This self-study program is presented as a series of recordings of a live course offered in August-September, 2023. Please note that any assignments are designed for enrichment only and will not be reviewed.

    Session 1 
    Introduction to Preservation Planning and the Elements of a Long-Range Plan

    Session 2 
    Risk Assessment and Preservation Fundamentals: the Collection Environment

    Session 3 – Wed, Sept. 6th, 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm Eastern
    Preservation Fundamentals: the Collection Environment (continued) and An Overview of Federal Grants

    Session 4 – Wed, Sept. 13th, 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm Eastern
    Next Level Projects: Upgrades to Storage Furniture / Housings / Enclosures, General Assessments, Item Level Surveys, and Conservation Treatments

    Captioning in English and Spanish is available.

    Registration Fee

    • $89

    Connecting to Collections Care courses are made possible in part by generous support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

    Nicole Grabow (Moderator)

    Director of Preventive Conservation

    Midwest Art Conservation Center (MACC)

    Nicole Grabow has worked at MACC since 2006, coming from the Smithsonian Center for Materials Research and Education at the Smithsonian Museum, Washington, DC. Prior to that, she was a Mellon Fellow at the Smithsonian’s new National Museum of the American Indian, located on the Washington DC Mall, and an intern at the Smithsonian’s Freer and Sackler Galleries. She holds a Master of Science from the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation, specializing in Objects Conservation, and a Bachelor of Arts from Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York. Nicole has particular interest in working with Native American communities and on public art projects. She was a MACC Senior Objects Conservator and Preventive Conservator prior to becoming the Director of Preventive Conservation. She is a Certified CAP Assessor and a Fellow of The American Institute for Conservation.

  • Contains 2 Component(s) Recorded On: 05/12/2023

    Learn about new processes and improvements with the AIC Wiki

    The Wiki Working Group welcomes AIC Wiki editors and users to an open discussion. Learn about new processes and improvements with the AIC Wiki, as well as technical hurdles we are addressing, then discuss your own experiences and ideas. This will be a quarterly meeting, and will be recorded for those who can't join live.

  • Contains 1 Component(s)

    2023 Annual Meeting: Electronic Media Group - Virtual Session 1

    LADG - Library and Archives Conservation Work Flow Through a DEI Lens: Before, During, and After Treatment

  • Contains 7 Component(s)

    AIC Wiki training videos and other resources for wiki editors

    Register for this module to access the AIC Wiki introductory training video. You will also have access to any additional training videos and handouts added over time. 

  • Contains 13 Component(s) Recorded On: 08/23/2022

    A resource hub for volunteers with both AIC and FAIC.

    AIC volunteers will find helpful resources here, including an 80-minute recorded orientation session, records management policies and guides, and finance forms. You will also find organizational charts and tips about contacting the best people for your inquiries. Visit the Contents tab to explore these materials. Please write to membership@culturalheritage.org with ideas for additional resources and your comments. We will keep adding materials to this resource to support you during your tenure as AIC volunteer. Thank you for your service!