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  • Contains 5 Component(s) Includes a Live Web Event on 06/13/2024 at 1:00 PM (EDT) Recorded On: 03/14/2024

    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) Includes a Live Web Event on 04/26/2024 at 2:00 PM (EDT)

    BPG's inaugural speaker series for members

    Join experts Travis McDade and Nick Wilding as they share case studies on library theft and book and manuscript forgeries. Both will present for 15-20 minutes each, then a robust discussion and conversation will take the final 20-30 minutes. This event is free for BPG members. 

  • Contains 1 Component(s) Includes a Live Web Event on 04/25/2024 at 12:00 PM (EDT)

    Join AIC's Wooden Artifacts Group for its new speaker series

    Join the Wooden Artifacts Group for the inaugural session of its online webinar series. Dr. Adam Bowett will present on Exotic Woods and the Growth of Empire from 1600-1900. A discussion will follow with Q&A from the audience. 

    This presentation looks at the way in which British commercial and colonial policy shaped the availability of exotic furniture woods to British furniture-makers. It is a story that runs in parallel with the growth of British maritime trade and the expansion of its colonial empire. Above all it was competition with other colonial powers – Holland, France, Spain and Portugal – which was the primary determinant of which woods were imported from which parts of the world, and at what date. Trade with North America is also considered, especially the development of timber imports from Canada and the United States in the 19th century.

    This event is open to WAG and AIC members for free. The Zoom webinar will have automated captioning in English. 

    Dr. Adam Bowett

    Independent Furniture Historian

    Dr. Adam Bowett is an independent furniture historian and chairman of the Chippendale Society. Since 1992 he has also worked as an advisor on historic English furniture to public institutions and private clients in both Britain and North America. The former include: The National Trust, English Heritage, Arts Council England, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Strawberry Hill Trust, the Wallace Collection and numerous British regional museums. He lectures widely and teaches furniture history at the Victoria and Albert Museum, West Dean College, and the University of Buckingham. He publishes in both popular and academic journals and is the author of seven books on English furniture and furniture-making. 

  • Contains 9 Component(s) Includes Multiple Live Events. The next is on 04/12/2024 at 2:00 PM (EDT) Recorded On: 02/09/2024

    Connect with your fellow members!

    Our Monthly Member Meetup is a 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. See past recordings at https://learning.culturalherit... and https://learning.culturalherit....

  • Contains 1 Component(s) Includes a Live Web Event on 04/12/2024 at 12:00 PM (EDT)

    Join AIC's Contemporary Art Network (CAN!) for a discussion about how we decide who to include, how to define invested communities, and whether alternative terms to reference these groups may be more applicable for the field of conservation.

    The terms “stakeholder” and “stakeholder management” are frequently used by conservators of contemporary art and artifacts as a tool to reference people who have vested interests in the cultural heritage in our care particularly as the conservation field evolves toward value-based decision making. As the origin of the term “stakeholder” references a power dynamic, it may imply that we, the caretakers and owners of the cultural property, are deciding who to "include” (or “exclude”) in our stewardship of these items. However, these are typically not decisions that should be a conservator’s alone depending on the context of working in a museum, with a private collector, gallery or artist. When the term is used, what are we really expressing? 

    The history of the term "stakeholder" will serve as the foundation for a discussion about how we decide who to include, how to define invested communities, and whether alternative terms to reference these groups may be more applicable for the field of conservation. Case studies from public art and the National September 11 Memorial & Museum will highlight the benefits and challenges of community informed conservation decision-making. 

    Chris McGlinchey

    Conservation Science Consultant

    ArtMediaScience

    Chris McGlinchey is a conservation scientist with a master’s degree in polymer science and engineering. He has thirty-five years of museum experience, all of it based in New York; First at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and then at the Museum of Modern Art.  Chris also taught conservation science in the conservation program at NYU. Currently, he’s a consultant and projects include collaboration between NYU and U Akron on a BEVA lining adhesive project and serves as a liaison between the Beirut Museum of Art and chemistry and physics departments at American University, Beirut. Finally, he’s contracted with Taylor and Francis, working on a book titled The Science of Craft in Conservation, subtitle tbd!

    Jane Henderson

    Professor of Conservation

    Cardiff University Programme in Conservation/Care of Collections

    Jane Henderson teaches conservation and collection care at Cardiff University. Jane is the Secretary General of the International Institute for Conservation and serves on the editorial panel Icon’s Journal, is a co-opted member of the Welsh Federation of Museum and Art Galleries.  Jane serves on the European standards body CEN TC 346 WG11 and is the chair of the BSI standard group B/560 concerned with the conservation of Tangible Cultural heritage. Jane was honoured to win the Plowden medal in 2021.

    Kerith Koss Schrager

    Head of Conservation

    National September 11 Memorial & Museum

    Kerith Koss Schrager is an objects conservator and Head of Conservation at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. Kerith specializes in occupational health and safety for cultural heritage workers and has degrees in both Environmental Health Sciences (2022) and Conservation (2008) from New York University.  Prior to her current position, she was the owner of The Found Object Art Conservation, LLC and has also held positions with the Brooklyn Museum, Field Museum, and National Museum of Asian Art of the Smithsonian. Kerith also serves as adjunct faculty at the Conservation Center of the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. She is a Professional Associate member of the American Institute for Conservation (AIC) and a former Chair of both their Health & Safety Network and Conservators in Private Practice (CIPP) Specialty Group.

    Laleña Arenas Vellanoweth

    Civic Art Conservation and Collections Manager

    Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture

    Laleña Arenas Vellanoweth is a textile conservator and cultural worker in Los Angeles, CA. She received her B.S. in Biochemistry and B.A. in Art from California State University, Los Angeles and MA in Art History and Certificate in Conservation from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. She has held conservation positions at the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. She then worked as an independent conservator at the Autry Museum of the American West, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, La Plaza de Cultura y Artes, and Los Angeles County Museum of Art.  During a conservation education fellowship for the UCLA/Getty Program, Laleña co-authored the grant for the Andrew W. Mellon Opportunity for Diversity in Conservation and served as the Program Manager for its first cohort. She is currently the Conservation and Collections Manager for the Civic Art Division of the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture.

    Jessica Walthew (Moderator)

    Objects Conservator

    Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum

    Jessica Walthew is an objects conservator at Cooper Hewitt, working with both the Product Design & Decorative arts and Digital collections. Her research interests include the history and theory of conservation, and technical research, especially with imaging technologies. Her current work focuses on plastics (both their conservation and cultural history). She served as co-curator of Natural Plastics (2019) at Cooper Hewitt and is currently researching the use of bioplastics in design.

    Martha Singer (Moderator)

    Chief Conservator

    Material Whisperer

    Martha Singer is the Director of Material Whisperer Consultation and Conservation Services, based in the New York City area.  She specializes in modern and contemporary sculpture and objects.  She has been working in conservation since 1991. Understanding materials, their working and aging properties as well as helping people is what Martha is most passionate about.  She especially enjoys working with artists and their representatives or galleries to help them achieve their goals.

    Martha offers contemporary artists advice and information about new materials and preventive conservation.  She has tested materials in the past to determine how they will age in museum settings or outdoors.  Artists are rightfully concerned by health and safety issues as well as the working properties of their materials. Martha carefully considers materials in light of their intended use and presents new options for artists to try. 

    Martha Singer has been an object conservator at many museums and conservation centers including: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum as well as the Conservation Center in Liverpool (England) and the Centre de Conservation du Québec (Quebec City, Canada). She has managed large projects including overseas travel and installation of works, worked with artists to help archive their materials, installed and coordinated exhibits.  She welcomes teamwork and enjoys working with art moving companies to help pack, install and transport artworks.

    Martha received a B.A. in anthropology from Bard College as well as a diploma in fine art conservation (objects) and M.A.in art history from the Conservation Center of the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University in 1996. 

    Martha is a Fellow and an active member of the American Institute for Conservation since 1991. She served on the Education Committee, she was Secretary/Treasurer for the Electronic Media Group (sub-group of AIC) for over two terms, and she manages technical workshops for conservators on plastics and involved in the TechFocus workshop.

  • Contains 1 Component(s) Includes a Live Web Event on 04/11/2024 at 12:00 PM (EDT)

    In this conversation Jae Gutierrez, Executive Director of the Image Permanence Institute (IPI), will provide an informal introduction to current research on sealed frame packages being conducted at IPI. She will also discuss how this research sits within IPI’s sustainable preservation practices research agenda. As part of a three-year, Institute of Museum and Library Services-funded, research project a total of 28 sealed frame package designs were created for laboratory testing. Variations in design allowed for both quantitative and qualitative analysis. Experimental data was evaluated to understand the effectiveness of each design at buffering against external changes in temperature and relative humidity. Additionally, qualitative assessments were conducted of the reusability of sealed frame package materials. This research is ongoing, and the laboratory data is still being processed. Therefore, final conclusions will not be shared during this conversation, but trends and generalizations of lessons learned will be discussed.

    In this conversation Jae Gutierrez, Executive Director of the Image Permanence Institute (IPI), will provide an informal introduction to current research on sealed frame packages being conducted at IPI. She will also discuss how this research sits within IPI’s sustainable preservation practices research agenda. As part of a three-year, Institute of Museum and Library Services-funded, research project a total of 28 sealed frame package designs were created for laboratory testing. Variations in design allowed for both quantitative and qualitative analysis. Experimental data was evaluated to understand the effectiveness of each design at buffering against external changes in temperature and relative humidity. Additionally, qualitative assessments were conducted of the reusability of sealed frame package materials. This research is ongoing, and the laboratory data is still being processed. Therefore, final conclusions will not be shared during this conversation, but trends and generalizations of lessons learned will be discussed.

    Jae Gutierrez

    Executive Director

    Image Permanence Institute (IPI)

    Jennifer Jae Gutierrez has served as Executive Director of IPI since 2017. She provides leadership and strategic direction for the research center, with more than twenty years of experience as a preservation administrator, photograph conservator, and conservation educator. Jae has a MSc in Art Conservation from the University of Delaware specializing in photograph conservation. Prior to her appointment at RIT, Jae was the Arthur J. Bell Senior Photograph Conservator at the Center for Creative Photography (CCP) where she established the institution’s conservation department. Before that, she held a faculty appointment in the Art Conservation Department at the University of Delaware (UD) where she taught undergraduate- and graduate-level courses in preventive conservation, conservation ethics, and the conservation of photographic materials. 

  • Contains 2 Component(s) Includes a Live Web Event on 04/03/2024 at 1:00 PM (EDT)

    Introducing Climate Resilience Resources for Cultural Heritage, a new resource created by FAIC in partnership with the National Endowment for the Humanities and Environment and Culture Partners.

    Introducing Climate Resilience Resources for Cultural Heritage, a new resource created by FAIC in partnership with the National Endowment for the Humanities and Environment and Culture Partners.

    Webinar #1: Making the Case for Climate Resilience: How Cultural Heritage Can Lead the Way 

    Join us for an introduction to the Climate Resilience Resources for Cultural Heritage (CRR), a new resource created by FAIC in partnership with the National Endowment for the Humanities and Environment and Culture Partners. CRR is a suite of free resources that enables those who care for cultural resources in their communities to plan for and respond to climate change’s impacts. This series, tailored to cultural heritage stewards will walk through the importance of building climate resilience and how to do so using the three components to support collaborative planning efforts among cultural resources and communities.

    Webinar #2: Location, Location, Location: Assessing and Interpreting Risk of Climate-Related Hazards

    The second webinar of the Building Climate Resilience for Cultural Heritage webinar series will be introduced to the assessment tools including the interactive mapping tool and site risk vulnerability assessment survey.

    -       Why the need for another interactive Map? What makes this resource different and how it is relevant to you.

    -       Location, Location, Location: Using information from the interactive map tool in the site risk vulnerability assessment survey.

  • Contains 2 Component(s) Recorded On: 03/15/2024

    Online workshop on more time-effective and consistent conservation surveys

    The Painting Specialty Group (PSG) is sponsoring an online workshop exploring how the creation of report templates and simple spreadsheets commonly available software can allow for more time-effective and consistent conservation surveys. Over the course of two 90-minute sessions, instructor Elizabeth Robson will demonstrate how to craft reports using templates in Microsoft Word (1st Session on March 15) and Google Sheets (2nd Session on March 22) with plenty of time for questions. Participants will follow along and create their own templates for use by the end of each session.

    The workshop has a limit of 30 participants. 

    $60 for members. We have a limited number of stipendiary (free) registrations for those experiencing financial hardship. Use the code WAIVER at checkout to register at this special rate.

    Elizabeth Robson

    ER Painting Conservation and Restoration

    Elizabeth Robson is a Paintings Conservator and owner of ER Painting Conservation and Restoration (ERPCR) based near Albany, NY. She is a Professional Member of AIC and received her Master’s degree from SUNY Buffalo State University. She previously held fellowships and internships at various institutions in Virginia, Florida, Missouri, and Belgium. She currently serves as the Paintings Specialty Group’s Chief Wiki Editor. Her interest in data gathering and analysis has grown over the past several years, leading to her recently obtaining a Google Data Analytics Certificate.

  • Contains 1 Component(s)

    AIC's Equity & Inclusion Committee is launching a new series of conversational interviews with conservators and cultural caretakers advancing DEIA principles forward, changing the way we think about and practice cultural heritage preservation. Our first conversation will be March 21 at 2pm ET / 11am PT.

    Our Equity & Inclusion Committee is launching a new series of conversational interviews with conservators and cultural caretakers advancing DEIA principles forward, changing the way we think about and practice cultural heritage preservation. Our first conversation will be March 21 at 2pm ET / 11am PT.

    We are excited to welcome Professor Fernando Dominguez Rubio, Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego, for the inaugural event. His work on ecologies of care, meaning and imagination intersect with conservation in a number of ways.

    Free for members. All sessions will be recorded and available to AIC members and shared after the live session through the Equity and Inclusion in Conservation online community and the AIC Member Community. Registration will open soon.

  • Contains 8 Component(s) Recorded On: 02/22/2024

    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.