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A reminder to register for the upcoming virtual presentation on a new technology for the cleaning of delicate surfaces. Hope to see you next week! Link to register: https://learning.culturalheritage.org/p/moxy Registration is free for AIC members and students (you still need to register and go through the "purchase" at $0); $20 for non-AIC members. The speakers are generously volunteering their time and the funds raised will be used to support programs at the annual conference. Recordings will be available for registered participants. MOXY: Plasma-generated Atomic Oxygen for the Cleaning of Sensitive Cultural Heritage Surfaces Tuesday, August 26, 10-11:30 ...

December 2024 Dear Colleagues, We are beyond thrilled to announce that the AIC Board has recently endorsed the most recent version Bizot Green Protocol : The American Institute for Conservation (AIC) recognizes that the climate crisis is an increasing threat to cultural heritage and the world. Evidence has irrefutably shown that carbon emissions play a significant role in exacerbating the crisis. With this urgency in mind, AIC recognizes the value of The Bizot Green Protocol and supports collective adoption and implementation efforts to improve sustainability and reduce the environmental impact of cultural heritage preservation ...

Conservation Post-Graduate Fellowship in Objects Conservation National Park Service Harpers Ferry Center – Willow Springs Facility Description Great Basin Institute, founded at the University of Nevada, Reno in 1998, is a mission-driven non-profit organization headquartered in the eastern foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. GBI has been a leader in the conservation stewardship field for over two decades, supporting thousands of individuals pursuing a career in public land management or advancing their academic standing. In partnership with the NPS’ Museum Conservation Labs at the Harpers Ferry Center (HFC), GBI seeks to hire one art conservation ...

SRAL Academy is pleased to announce: Fully Virtual Workshop STRUCTURAL TREATMENTS OF PAINTINGS: REINFORCEMENT WITH THE MIST-LINING SYSTEM by Kate Seymour and Joanna Strombek Wednesdays, 29 September - 15 December 2021 (half days weekly) | Online With support from the Getty Foundation’s Conserving Canvas Initiative, SRAL will host and organise a fully virtual workshop to provide instruction and hands-on experience on the ‘Mist-Lining’ technique. Programme The Mist-Lining system, developed at SRAL, enables the reinforcement of a canvas painting without affecting the original structure. This system can be easily adapted to ...

We are happy to announce the The Courtauld's upcoming event Jay DeFeo: A Symposium Friday 28 May 2021 4:30 pm - 7:30 pm BST From the 1950s the avant-garde artist Jay DeFeo (1929-1989) was a member of a vibrant bohemian community of artists, musicians, poets and writers based in San Francisco. Best known today for her magisterial painting titled The Rose (1958-1966), which the artist described as ‘a marriage between painting and sculpture’, over the course of her long career DeFeo experimented widely, and intensely, with a range of unorthodox materials, exploring the parameters and expansive limits of painting, sculpture, drawing, collage, photocopies ...

We are thrilled to announce our upcoming colloquium Performance: The Ethics and the Politics of Care - 1. Mapping the Field May 29 - 30, 2021, online This event aims at advancing the knowledge on this topic within the discipline of conservation on the one hand, while, on the other, locating the discourse of conservation within a broader field of the humanities disciplines concerned with the theories and practices of performance— performance studies, anthropology, art history, curatorial studies, heritage studies and museology. We propose to contest the common-sense understanding of performance as a non-conservable form and ask questions concerning how, ...

Call for papers We invite authors to submit manuscripts for consideration in the Nordic Association of Conservators journal MoK. MoK is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes original research articles from researchers, practitioners and students on subjects relevant to the conservation and restoration of cultural and natural heritage. Deadline for submission is April 15, 2021. Articles can be submitted in English as well as Danish, Finnish, Icelandic, Norwegian and Swedish. All manuscripts must be submitted through the online submission manager: https://app.scholasticahq.com/login . Please consult the journal’s guidelines for details on format ...

ABOUT THE ARCHIVING CONFERENCE The conference's interdisciplinary focus creates a rich environment for information exchange and presentation of the latest research results on digitization and curation. Archiving investigates new technologies, strategies, and policies and reports on successful projects that can serve as benchmarks in the field and explore different platforms and ways to visualize collection data, allowing for deeper connections with collections. ARCHIVING 2021 PROGRAM Archiving includes Short Courses, virtual Behind-the-Scenes Tours; Exhibits; a robust Technical Papers Program; and vibrant networking opportunities. Short courses will ...

The Naval History and Heritage Command’s (NHHC) Conservation Branch is seeking a conservator. The selected candidate will work in the Conservation Branch’s laboratory at the Collection Management Facility (CMF) in Richmond, Virginia, and will work with four additional conservation staff, seven curatorial staff, and contractors in a dynamic environment to support the conservation needs of multiple Navy collections and 10 Navy museums around the country. The selected candidate will also provide conservation services in support of the development and opening of the new National Museum of the United States Navy. The position is listed as a GS-1015-9/11 Staff ...

Moderna Museet Dnr MM 2020/73 Conservator of Objects / Sculpture and Installation art Employment: Permanent, 100% Start date: Earliest opportunity or with agreement Moderna Museet is a government funded museum with the national collection responsibility for modern and contemporary art. The museum has an extensive programme of exhibitions, projects and educational activities and promotes international contact. Moderna Museet has one of Europe’s finest and most well-known collections of 20th and 21st century art. The museum is located in both Stockholm and Malmö. The conservation department is on Skeppsholmen in Stockholm and currently consists of a head ...

ational Portrait Gallery houses a unique collection of all forms of portraiture of the people who have made or who are making British history and culture. The Gallery attracts 2 million visits a year and is among London’s most popular museums, it reaches and engages these, and further UK and global audiences, with its extensive display, exhibition, research, learning, outreach, publishing, digital and national programmes. Conservator: Works on Paper £12,362 per annum i.e. pro-rated to the full time equivalent of £30,906 per annum. Part-time, 16 hours (2 days) per week Fixed Term Contract for 22 months The National Portrait Gallery ...

The Centre for Fine Print Research at the University of the West of England and the Royal Photographic Society are collaborating on a two-day conference Don’t Press Print. De/Re-constructing the collodion process. Over two days some twenty papers will look at historical aspects of the collodion process, contemporary practice and wider aspects, not least conservation and preservation. The provisional programme can be viewed at the link below and registration is now open for booking. All registrants will receive a copy of the conference proceedings after the event. The publication will be available to the wider public (at a higher price) and registration ...

CALL FOR PAPERS "Art's Undoing: Impermanence, Degradation, and Destruction" Panel, College Art Association Annual Conference 2021 Deadline: Sept. 16, 2020 This session seeks papers that shed new light on art produced in the eighteenth or nineteenth century that was affected by physical impermanence, damage, or destruction. While the session has specific chronological parameters, we welcome examinations of art works from any geographic or cultural context as well as cross-cultural topics. What developments either fostered the production of ephemeral or impermanent works of art or led to art works’ demise? What particular forms of iconoclasm emerged ...