50th anniversary celebration at Institute of Fine Arts, NYU

The Conservation Center Celebrates 50 Years of Excellence

Dear students and recent graduates,

In 1960, five students were admitted to the first degree-granting
program in art conservation in the United States at the Institute of
Fine Arts of New York University. Fifty years later, over 230
students have graduated from the Conservation Center, a leader in
conservation education and a model for several subsequent training
programs to emerge in the United States and Canada. From its humble
beginnings in the basement of the James B. Duke House, the
Conservation Center stands today as a foremost program of its kind
in the country, training and preparing a new generation of
conservators and sending graduates to prestigious positions and
advanced fellowships across the globe.

Over its fifty year history, the Conservation Center has established
itself not only as a premier graduate program, but also as a
critical center for academic and scientific research and a central
hub for the conservation community locally and internationally. This
is the result of the dedication and vision of its early leaders
including Craig Hugh Smyth, James McCredie, Lawrence Majewski,
Sheldon Keck and Norbert Baer, as well as many devoted faculty,
staff, students, alumni, friends and partners over the years. More
than just a program, the Conservation Center has become the
community of lives and stories and achievements of all the people
who have walked through its doors. And it is in this spirit that we
invite you to join us this fall and throughout the year in
celebrating and commemorating an important milestone in the history
of conservation in America.

We would like to invite any students or recent graduates in
conservation who may be in the New York area to join our Anniversary
Celebration. Our celebration takes place on Friday, October 15, 2010
with an open house at the Conservation Center and guided tours of
local museum laboratories. In the afternoon, there will be a special
presentation on the history of the Conservation Center, followed by
recollections from Conservation Center alumni and faculty from each
decade of the Center's history and an evening reception in the Duke
House. There are a few seats left, so please RSVP soon if you are
interested by sending the invitation form available at

    <URL:http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/fineart/pdfs/
        conservation/50th_Anniv_Invitation.pdf>

or contacting

    Oliver Luisi
    oliver.luisi<-at->nyu<.>edu
    212-992-5888

More information can be found at

    <URL:http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/
        fineart/conservation/anniversary.htm>

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    Hannelore Roemich
    Acting Chairman and Professor of Conservation Science

    Michele D. Marincola
    Sherman Fairchild Chairman and Professor of Conservation

    Dr. Norbert S. Baer
    Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Conservation

    Margaret Holben Ellis
    Eugene Thaw Professor of Paper Conservation

Oliver Luisi
The Conservation Center
Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
14 East 78th Street
New York, NY 10075
212-992-5888
Fax: 212-992-5851


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