December Meeting Summary — “Culture in Crisis” by Corine Wegner
The Washington Conservation Guild December Meeting and Holiday Party was held at the Hill Center at the Old Naval Hospital in SE Washington, DC. The …
October Meeting Summary—Conservation of Plaster Casts by Diane Fullick
In her talk, titled Finding Their Place: The History and Conservation of Plaster, Diane Fullick, an objects conservator in private practice, presented on her on-going …
Meeting Summary – Intern Talk “Chapel in the Fall Wood”
Chapel in the Fall Wood, Maceptaw Bogun Summary by Ali Sims, Pre-program Intern In this talk we heard from Desi Peters, a fourth year graduate …
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 …
