The Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts (CCAHA) is continuing procedures put in place in response to COVID-19 to offer safe, socially-distanced pick-up and drop-off of objects for conservation treatment. We also offer virtual consultations via Zoom. For more information or to schedule a new appointment, email our Client Services Administrator Edie Tanis Brenna or call (215) 545-0613 x 303. The entire CCAHA staff is available by email to answer your questions and discuss new and ongoing projects.
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Our 2021 Virtual Open House is currently in progress, but it's still not too late to register! Each week, we're emailing new video presentations of fascinating projects from our lab. Every new update includes links to all previous presentations, so register now to catch up on treatment projects from Philadelphia's Mütter Museum and the American Folk Art Museum in New York City; a housing project from a local music memorabilia collector; and a message from our Preservation Services Office. The final video of the series will be sent next week, and those who sign up are invited to join a live Zoom Q&A with a panel of CCAHA staff and other experts on Thursday, November 18, from 6:30-7:30 PM EST.
Thanks to this year's sponsors for their generous support!
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Funding Opportunities: Save America's Treasures & Preservation Assistance Grants
Save America's Treasures is a National Park Service grant program in collaboration with the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Designed to support the preservation of nationally significant historic properties and collections, the grant program is competitive and requires a dollar-for-dollar match.
Deadline: December 14, 2021
Thinking about applying for a project involving CCAHA? To date, CCAHA's Director of Development Lee Price has provided free fundraising assistance on 25 successful Save America's Treasures applications, and we have worked on 38 Save America's Treasures projects total that leveraged more than $100 million in federal, state, and private funding. Contact Lee at lprice@ccaha.org.
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The National Endowment for the Humanities' Preservation Assistance Grants help small and mid-sized institutions—such as libraries, museums, historical societies, archival repositories, cultural organizations, town and county records offices, and colleges and universities—improve their ability to preserve and care for their significant humanities collections. These may include special collections of books and journals, archives and manuscripts, prints and photographs, moving images, sound recordings, architectural and cartographic records, decorative and fine art objects, textiles, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, furniture, historical objects, and digital materials.
Deadline: Thursday, January 13, 2022
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CCAHA is committed to providing universal access to our programs.
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WORKSHOP
Fundraising and Promotion for Collections
Date: Monday, December 6
Time: 10:00 AM ET
Dream big! Collections-based initiatives often need a jolt of outside funding to succeed. This three-week virtual course will guide participants in how to develop and implement funding strategies that can make your collection stewardship dreams come true. Drawing from success stories at museums, historic sites, libraries, and archives, this course will combine live and asynchronous instruction to examine the advance planning that should support preservation and conservation initiatives, the range of potential funding sources to consider, writing approaches that can make a request compelling, and the art of promoting and leveraging for future success.
Fundraising and Promotion for Collections is an asynchronous course presented on Canvas LMS. The course will begin on Monday, December 6 and be open for three weeks, during which time students will be able to access pre-recorded webinars (available at 10:00 AM EST each Monday- December 6, 13, and 20), related resources, chat with other participants and engage with instructors. The instructors will also host two live zoom discussions at 2:00 PM EST on Wednesdays (December 8 and 15). Participants will be able to access the course page starting one week before the first session (November 29).
Canvas LMS is an open and reliable web-based software that allows institutions to manage digital learning, educators to present online learning material, and students to engage in courses and receive feedback. Participants will receive instructions on how to join the CCAHA Canvas Classroom upon registration.
There are a limited number of scholarships available for this program which will be awarded on a first come, first serve basis. If you are interested in a scholarship, DO NOT register at the link above, as payment will be required. Instead, please contact Preservation Services Coordinator Alanna Shaffer at ashaffer@ccaha.org to express interest and learn more.
This program of the Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts is provided with generous support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the William Penn Foundation, Independence Foundation, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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WORKSHOP SERIES
Save the Dates!
Let's Talk About That: Dialogue and Change in Collections Care
Dates: December 6-7, 2021
January 10-11, 2022
January 24-25, 2022
February 7-8, 2022
February 28-March 1, 2022
March 14-15, 2022
In March of 2021, CCAHA held its first major event focused exclusively on topics of diversity and equity in the collections care field. Nearly 300 panelists and attendees gathered virtually for the "Many Voices: Diversity in Collections Care" colloquium, highlighting some of the most pressing issues in the field. By the end of the two-day event, two major conclusions emerged: first, that there is much more work to be done. And second, that there is a robust and energized community ready to take it on.
And it's no wonder: As cultural institutions across the world reckon with the events of the past year, confronting- often for the first time- how these issues of equity and access have impacted their own communities, the resulting institutional dialogues have often been reserved only for those in leadership or public-facing roles. Collections care professionals- and others in similarly "behind-the-scenes" roles- are frequently left out of these conversations, despite the tremendous impact of their work in documenting and preserving the world's cultural heritage. The community remains eager and excited to do the work, but without a clear path forward to do so.
This series aims to combine this eagerness with incredible work already being done in the field to begin building a DEIA infrastructure within collections care that can be sustainable beyond this moment in history. The goal is not to present a definitive guidebook on these topics, but rather to build this guide together as a community. Each module will focus on a different issue facing the field and will be comprised of two components: a traditional webinar with a speaker highlighting their own observations in the field, and- the following day- a community dialogue led by facilitator, Sarah Pharaon. As each topic is discussed and processed together, key takeaways will be compiled and used to build a publicly-available resource document to serve as a toolkit for individuals looking to begin or expand this work at their own organizations.
Can't wait to learn more? Click here to be notified when registration opens, and be the first to access scholarship opportunities, preview the speaker roster, and more.
Presented by the Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts with generous grant support from the William Penn Foundation, Independence Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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The Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts is a nonprofit, full-service facility with experts in a range of disciplines. We have been providing conservation and preservation services since 1977. Our mission is to provide expertise and leadership in the preservation of cultural heritage. Our conservators repair and stabilize books, photographs, and documents. Our preservation services staff works in the field, providing education programs and helping institutions plan for the future of their collections. We offer a wide range of digitization and reproduction services, as well as fundraising assistance, housing and framing, and more.
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