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FAIC advocates public appreciation of conservation and the primary role it plays in increasing understanding of our global cultural heritage. 1156 15th Street NW, Suite 320, Washington, DC 20005-1714 202-452-9545 | fax: 202-452-9328 [email protected] | www.conservation-us.org 40TH ANNUAL MEETING Connecting to Conservation: Outreach and Advocacy May 8 –11, 2012 Albuquerque Convention Center Albuquerque, New Mexico The theme of this annual meeting will be outreach and advocacy in conservation, an exploration of how conservation connects with allied professionals, the press, our clients, and the general public. This meeting will feature a General Session format very different than in years past. For the 40th Annual Meeting, in addition to four sessions where all attendees gather to hear a selection of presenters, there will be other breakout sessions where a wide array of topics pertaining to the overall theme will be addressed in topical conversations presented in smaller group settings rather than a large lecture format. BOARD OF DIRECTORS SPECIALTY GROUP OFFICERS President: Meg Loew Craft Architecture Vice President: Pamela Hatchfield Chair: Patricia Miller Secretary: Lisa Bruno Vice Chair: Stephanie M. Hoagland Treasurer: Brian R. Howard Director, Committees & Task Forces: Catharine Hawks Book and Paper Director, Communications: Nancie Ravenel Chair: Penley Knipe Director, Professional Education: Stephanie M. Lussier Program Chair: Jamye Jamison Director, Specialty Groups: Deborah Lee Trupin Conservators in Private Practice Chair: George Schwartz 2012 ANNUAL MEETING Vice Chair: Judith Watkins Tartt Program Committee Electronic Media Pamela Hatchfield Chair: Christine Frohnert Meg Loew Craft Program Chair: Jeff Martin Nancie Ravenel Objects Assisted by the Outreach Program Chairs Chair: Sanchita Balachandrian Poster Session Committee Program Chair: Mina Thompson Amy Crist Paintings Angela M. Elliot Chair: Laura Rivers Matthew Cushman Program Chair: Katrina A. Bartlett AIC & FAIC STAFF Photographic Materials Executive Director: Eryl P. Wentworth Chair: Barbara N. Brown Meetings Associate: Adam Allen Program Chair: Monique C. Fischer Finance Manager: Sandy T. Nguyen Research & Technical Studies Membership Associate: Steven Charles Chair: Catherine H. Stephens Development & Education Associate: Abigail Choudhury Vice Chair: Jason Church Communications Director: Morgan Gilpatrick Institutional Advancement Director: Eric Pourchot Textiles Membership & Meetings Director: Ruth Seyler Chair: Susan Anne Mathisen Membership Coordinator: Ryan Winfield Vice Chair: Robin Hanson Wooden Artifacts Chair: Alex Carlisle Program Chair: Stephanie Auffret Back cover photo: Virginia Avenue Skyline, courtesy of the Indianapolis Convention & Visitors Association; visitIndy.com TaBLE OF CONTENTS 40th Annual Meeting .............................................. 2 Outreach Sessions ................................................ 4 Keynote Speakers .....................................................4 Articulating Value Session ...............................................5 Communicating Conservation Session ......................................7 Communicating the Haiti Recovery Project Session ............................8 Conservation & Education I Session .......................................9 Conservation & Education II Session ......................................11 Conservation Conversations Session. .12 Case Studies I Session: Public Outreach in the Developing World .................14 Case Studies II Session: Disaster Outreach ..................................16 Case Studies III Session: Outreach Tools ....................................17 Exhibiting Ourselves Session ............................................20 The Great Debate Session ..............................................23 Linking Environmental and Heritage Conservation: Presentations, Discussions, and Tips ...........................24 Outreach to Allies Session ..............................................24 Public Art Outreach Session ............................................28 Working with Artists Session ............................................31 Architecture ................................................... 32 Book & Paper .................................................. 39 Electronic Media ................................................ 46 Objects ...................................................... 50 Paintings ..................................................... 53 Photographic Materials ............................................ 60 Research & Technical Studies ........................................ 64 Textiles ...................................................... 67 Wooden Artifacts ................................................ 73 Joint Sessions: Book & Paper + Research & Technical Studies ...................... 77 Joint Sessions: Objects + Research & Technical Studies ........................... 80 Poster Sessions ................................................. 83 Outreach Sessions 3 OUTREACH SESSIONS Keynote Speakers It’s a Material World Presented by Samuel Jones TYLER GREEN Outreach and advocacy are familiar words to any organisation seeking public support and funding. However, they are about Tyler Green, an influential arts journalist, will speak on the current more than simply making a case: thinking about just what the state of arts journalism today and his perspectives on what makes conservation sector provides and how it can change the profession conservation projects worthy of public attention in the news. and reinvigorate it as an important part of the public realm. Tyler Green is based in Washington, DC where he edits and This speech is based on It’s a Material World, which Samuel writes “Modern Art Notes” (MAN) and is the U.S. columnist Jones published with John Holden in 2008.It will examine for Modern Painters magazine. Green’s newest venture is conservation in wider social and political contexts. Conservators The Modern Art Notes podcast, a weekly program which deal on a daily basis with ideas and concepts that are at the he independently produces and hosts. It is distributed each very heart of the public realm, caring for the values around Thursday via MAN, iTunes, RSS feed and on MANPodcast. which society is built. Telling this story is not just a vital part com. The Washington Post has named Tyler Green one of of outreach and advocacy, but can also help policy-makers and Washington’s 14 “young and influential” cultural figures. society meet some of the most significant challenges that we, Away from MAN, Green has written for Fortune, Conde collectively, face. Nast Portfolio, Smithsonian, Washingtonian, The New York Observer, LA Weekly, Black Book magazines and has contributed op-eds to newspapers such as the Los Angeles Times, DR. Anne-ImelDA RAdiCE The Boston Globe, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and to The Wall Street Dr. Anne-Imelda Radice will speak on the subject of advocacy, Journal’s arts op-ed column, “In the Fray.” about impacting public policy, and injecting importance for caring of cultural heritage into the lives of the public. Prior Why and How Museums and Conservators to joining the Dilenschneider Group, Radice was director of Should Nudge Conservation Forward the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) from Presented by Tyler Green 2006 to 2010. Previously acting assistant chairman for programs at the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), she At a time when journalism is struggling and when journalism served as chief of staff to the secretary of the United States about art is increasingly falling away, how can conservators Department of Education. In the early 1990s, she was acting present stories about art and about their practice to the public? National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) chairman and senior Green will discuss why