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., …
Lecture: Establishing Online Communities to Promote Best Practices in Collection Care
Wednesday, March 18, 201510:45 amMCI Theater at MSC Rachael Perkins Arenstein, Integrated Pest Management Working Group (IPM-WG) Co-Founder and American Institute for Conservation (AIC) e-Editor …
Intangible Cultural Heritage Lecture: Changing Our ICH Story from Loss to Potential through Audiovisual Archives
Intangible Cultural Heritage at the Smithsonian presents a lecture by Dr. Anthony Seeger. When: 12:00 – 1:30pm on Wednesday, March 18, 2015Where: Smithsonian Castle Library, …
March Meeting—Finding Their Place: The History and Conservation of Plaster Casts at Maryland Institute College of Art
DO TO INCLEMENT WEATHER, THIS MEETING HAS BEEN POSTPONED. Please come to the next meeting of the Washington Conservation Guild at MedChi in Baltimore on …
