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Architectural Records Workshop
in Pittsburgh, PA
The Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts, The Heinz
Architectural Center, and the Conservation Department of the
Carnegie Museum of Art are co-sponsoring a one day architectural
records workshop, "Have You Got the Blues? Architectural Records:
Their Identification, Management, Storage, and Treatment," in
Pittsburgh, PA on Friday, October 4, 1996. The workshop will be
held at the Carnegie Museum of Art Theater, 4400 Forbes Avenue,
Pittsburgh, PA. A registration fee of $75.00 includes a box lunch
and materials. Enrollment will be to thirty participants. The
workshop is partially funded by the National Endowment for the
Humanities, The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, and the
Dolfinger-McMahon Foundation.
Audience
The workshop is intended for architectural historians,
architects, librarians, archivists, museum curators, collections
care managers, conservators, and technicians who have
architectural records or other oversized paper-based materials
in their care or collections.
Subject
The speakers will address the problems of caring for the diverse
materials of an architectural records collection. The workshop
will help participants identify different original and
reproductive processes; consider options for organization,
cataloging, access, and reformatting of architectural records;
recognize storage problems and options; and learn basic
collections care methods and remedial treatments that can be
safely accomplished in-house. The workshop will include a tour
of the storage facilities of The Heinz Architectural Center at
the Carnegie Museum of Art and demonstrations of appropriate
handling techniques and repairs of architectural drawings and
reproductions.
Speakers
Lois Price, Conservator of Library Collections at the H.I.
DuPont Winterthur Museum; Dennis McFadden, Curator of
Architecture, The Heinz Architectural Center, the Carnegie
Museum of Art; and Joan Irving, Conservator, Conservation Center
for Art and Historic Artifacts.
Registration deadline: Friday, September 20, 1996.
For further information and a registration form, please contact:
Helen Corr
Assistant,Preservation Services Office
Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts
264 South 23rd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103
215-545-0613
Fax: 215-735-9313
6508 470-1010
Fax: 508 475-6021
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