Washington Conservation Guild

Please join us Thursday, January 7, 2010 for WCG's
"3-Ring Circus", our fourth meeting of the 2009-2010 season.

The meeting will be held at the
S. Dillon Ripley Center
Smithsonian Institution
1100 Jefferson Drive, SW
Washington DC

5-6 pm reception/vendor exhibits
6-7 pm presentations

Refreshments for this meeting graciously provided by Inviseum,
Hollinger Metal Edge Inc, University Products, Inc., Larson-Juhl/
Conservation By Design- North America, Dorfman Museum Figures, Inc.,
Archival Art Services, Inc.

This year's three concurrent rings are:

  Ring 1: Setting Up a Conservation Studio: Examples in
  Institutional, University, and Private Practice Labs

    Nora Lockshin
    Paper Conservator, Smithsonian Archives
    "3 weeks, 3 years, 3 contractors Building the Smithsonian Center
    for Archives Conservation"

    Eliza Gilligan
    Conservator for University Library Collections, UVA Libraries
    "Starting from Scratch: A Grant Funded Scenario"

    Open panel discussion with audience

    Ring 2: Conservation Advocacy,
    Outreach, and Global Preservation of Cultural Heritage

        Eryl Wentworth
        Executive Director, and
        Ruth Seyler, Membership and Meetings Director
        "Preservation Action Team AIC Outreach and You"

    Christine Henry
    Senior Program Officer, IMLS
    "IMLS funding for Collections"

    Debbie Hess Norris
    Henry Francis DuPont Chair of Fine Arts,Vice Provost for
    Graduate and Professional Education and
    Chair, Art Conservation Department University of Delaware

    "A Report on the October 2009 Salzburg Global Seminar: The
    Preservation of Our World's Cultural Heritage"

    Ring 3: Innovations in Treatment, Imaging, and Preservation

    Amanda Norbutus
    Coremans Fellow
    Preservation Studies Doctoral Program University of Delaware
    "They are worth saving: The meaning and materials of public
    murals"

    Hugh Shockey
    Smithsonian American Art Museum
    Blow it Off: Moving Beyond Compressed Air with Carbon Dioxide
    (CO2) Snow"

The closest Metro is Smithsonian/Orange or Blue line.
Mall exit- Walk south to Jefferson Drive, cross the street, entrance
is through the kiosk to the left of the Freer building

This event is free to WCG members

$5 for guests and non-members

For information about this and other WCG meetings, please visit our
website at

    <URL:http://www.washingtonconservationguild.org>

Joanne Klaar Walker
WCG Membership Secretary
Washington DC


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