Meeting Summary – Intern Talk “A Day in the Life”
“A Day in the Life of Pre-program Interns at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum” Summary by Ali Sims, Pre-program Intern Written collaboratively by Adam …
Meeting Summary — The Experimental Sound Recordings of Alexander Graham Bell and the Volta Laboratory
Dawn Wallace, a graduate conservation intern from SUNY- Buffalo State, presented work she has undertaken at the National Museum of American History (NMAH) for the …
April Meeting Summary—A Journey Through the Carter Library: Conserving Publisher’s Bindings at The University of Virginia Library
Presenter: Quinn Ferris Quinn Ferris is a graduate student at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts and is completing her fourth year internship at …
January Meeting Summary—Working with a Collection of Radioactive Objects
On January 8, 2015, as part of the Theory and Practice Ring, Sharon Norquest, Conservator, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution; Amelia Kile, Museum …
January Meeting Summary—Portable XRF Analyses of Copper Alloys and Recent Thoughts on Calibration
Dylan Smith, Robert H. Smith Research Conservator, National Gallery of Art, spoke as part of the Theory and Practice Ring at the “WCG’s 3-Ring Circus.” …
January Meeting Summary—Mutual Outreach: Collaborative study and preservation of coastal Alaskan Native material culture with museum staff, Alutiiq scholars and artists, university students and the visiting public
The focus of Fran Ritchie’s (Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Objects Conservation, National Museum of the American Indian) talk was her participation in a collaborative …
January Meeting Summary—Building Educated Clients
In his talk, John Greenwalt Lee (Materials Conservator, The John Greenwalt Lee Company) focused on the importance of context and clear, effective communication in architectural …
January Meeting Summary — “Advocacy in Conservation: Just Showing Up”
Scott Nolley (Fine Art Conservation of Virginia) began his talk by addressing the idea of advocacy in its broadest forms. Though the word advocacy is …
February Meeting Summary – “I Gave Gold for Iron”: Nineteenth-Century Cast Iron Jewelry at the Harvard Art Museums
Diana Galante, Objects conservator at the National Museum of American History, presented her research on cast iron jewelry conducted at the Straus Center for Conservation …
January Meeting Summary – Preserving Maritime History
Presenter: Gary McGowan*, Principle Objects Conservator, Cultural Preservation & RestorationTitle: Preserving Maritime HistoryDate: January 8, 2015; Three Ring Meeting, Nautical RelatedSummarizer: Ed McManus The precepts …
