May Business Meeting and Raffle
The Washington Conservation Guild presents the final meeting of the 2014/2015 season. Join us Thursday, May 7, 2015 for our Annual Business Meeting and Raffle.* …
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.” …
April Meeting: Intern Talks
Please come to the next meeting of the Washington Conservation Guild at the historic Silver Spring B&O Railroad Station in Silver Spring, MD on Thursday …
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 …
Walking Tour of Historic Cemeteries: Oak Hill, Mt. Zion, and Congressional
Spring 2015 Meeting of the DC Metro Chapter of the Association for Gravestone Studies Saturday, April 4, 2015, 9 am – 4 pm The DC …
Hans Hofmann’s Last Lesson: A Study of the Artist’s Materials During the Last Decade of His Career
Topics in Museum Conservation Lecture: Hans Hofmann’s Last Lesson: A Study of the Artist’s Materials During the Last Decade of His Career Dawn V. Rogala, Ph.D., …
