Art Conservation Center at the University of Denver

I am posting this press release for my institution:

The Rocky Mountain Conservation Center changed its name to the Art
Conservation Center at the University of Denver (ACC@DU) July 1.
The Art Conservation Center is adopting the new name to help clients
and the public better understand its mission.  Board President Mary
Ebrahimi noted, "Many people associate the word 'conservation' with
nature and ecology, and we want everyone to know that our mission is
the care and preservation of art and cultural heritage objects."

The Art Conservation Center at the University of Denver has elected
a new slate of officers, whose terms are effective July 1.  D. Todd
Gray, Corporate Sponsorship Manager for the Denver Museum of Natural
History, will serve as President.  W. Scott Coors, Vice-President,
is Director of Product Damage Prevention at the Coors Brewing
Company.  Ron Judish, owner of Ron Judish Fine Arts, will serve as
Secretary.  Other members are G. E. Bergeron, Cynthia Dee Buchanan,
Dr. Jack Chang, Mary Ebrahimi, Vicki Hamilton Myhren, Ramona
Rosenkrans, and Lisa Williams.  The Advisory Board assists ACC@DU
with marketing, fund raising, planning, and education initiatives.

The Art Conservation Center at the University of Denver is a
regional conservation facility dedicated to preserving our shared
cultural heritage. ACC@DU has served museums, historical societies,
and the public for twenty-three years.  The Art Conservation Center
offers professional conservation care and educational programs
related to paintings, photographs, works of art on paper, documents,
maps, textiles, and archaeological, ethnographic, historical, and
fine art objects.

Conservation, a science-based discipline, preserves the man-made
material remains of the past.  It extends the life of a work of art
or an artifact, recovers and preserves information about how it was
made and used, and treats the sources, rather than the symptoms, of
deterioration.  The goal of archaeological or ethnographic
conservation is to preserve what remains of an artifact, and not
necessarily to make it look as it did when first created. Fine arts
conservation strives to recover as much of the original work as
possible without compromising the artist's intent, and to stabilize
the work and return it to an aesthetically pleasing state.

Art Conservation Center at the University of Denver
303.733.2712
Fax: 303.733.2508
<URL:http://www.du.edu/accdu>
Hours: 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., M-F
Departments: Paintings, Paper/Photographs, Textiles, Objects

David Harvey
Conservator of Objects
The Art Conservation Center at the University of Denver
2420 S. University Blvd.
Denver, C0  80208
303-733-2712


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