North American Textile Conservation Conference (NATCC)

8th biennial North American Textile Conservation Conference
Oaxaca, Mexico
7-12, 2011

Registration for the 8th biennial North American Textile
Conservation Conference in Oaxaca, Mexico is open through October 7,
2011. The conference dates are November 7-12, 2011.  Please visit

    <URL:http://www.NATCConference.com>

for registration instructions and for information on pre- and
post-conference tours and workshops.  Papers will be presented on
November 10-11, 2011 and will be accompanied by poster
presentations.

The presentations will be as follows:

    "The Role of Universities in the Rescue of Cultural Heritage"
        Gonzalo J. Alarcon Vital

    "Conservation Challenge: Ottoman Carpets in Transylvanian
    Churches"
        Annette Beselin

    "Stitches in Time: The Integration of 18th and 21st Century
    Technologies and Techniques across Three Cultures"

       Nancy Britton

    "Building a Museum Conservation Community in Iraq"
        Vicki Cassman, Jessica Johnson, Nancy Odegaard

    "Conservation as a Process of Representation: The Kurdish
    Textile Museum of Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan"
        Anne- Marie Deisse
         Lolan Sipan
         Roisin Miles

    "Twenty Years of Conservation Collaborations with Native Peoples
    at the National Museum of the American Indian"
        Susan Heald

    "Retrieval of Forgotten Textile Techniques: A Ukrainian
    Community's Focus that Enriches Communities Beyond"

        Teena Jennings-Rentenaar
        Aniza Kraus

    'Textile Conservation at the Lyceum Club of Greek Women: So We
    Think We Can Dance"
        Tatiana Kousoulou
        Zoi Kona

    "Engaging with the Public Realm: Conserving Textiles as a Public
    Spectacle at the People's History Museum, Manchester, UK"
        Vivian Lochhead

    "Collaboration between Textile Conservators and Archaeologists:
    Four Case Studies of Textiles from Pyre Burials from Ancient
    Greece"
        Christina Margariti

    "Soaring Up: Feathered Textiles in Contemporary Mexico"
        Hector Manuel Meneses Lozano

    "Dyes and Dye-stuffs in Textile Conservation"
        Rosa Lorena Roman Torres
        Lilia Felix Leon
        Arturo Leon Candanedo
        Abner Gutierrez Ramos
        Nicolas Gutierrez Zepeda
        Alejandra Corona Cadena
        Lilian Garcia-Alonso Alba

    "Life's Rich Tapestry"
        Deb Spoehr

    "Weaving Experiences with the Textile Heritage and the Memory"
        Olga Liliana Sulca

    "Producing, Weaving, and Felting Turcana Wool in the Apuseni
    Mountains, Romania"
        Florica Zaharia
        Ana Teodora Zaharia

Christine Giuntini, Conservator
Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10028
212-650-2594


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