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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Act Now! Your Donations Support CCAHA's Education Initiatives
At CCAHA, one of our great joys as a nonprofit conservation center is the important role we play as educators, providing opportunities for people to learn more about conservation, preservation, and collections care. As the year winds to a close, we ask you to remember CCAHA in your year-end giving. We invite you to read a letter from Board Chair Larry Massaro and Executive Director Laura Hortz Stanton on how your gifts help sustain our education initiatives in particular.
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Philadelphia Stewardship Program Returns on its 20th Anniversary
CCAHA is excited to announce the launch of a new application round for our Philadelphia Stewardship Program in January 2022, just in time for the program’s 20th anniversary. For two decades, the Philadelphia Stewardship Program has provided institutions with a comprehensive approach to preservation planning. Funded by the William Penn Foundation, the program helps cultural institutions assess their preservation needs and develop long-range plans to address them. Learn more about the program at our website, and watch your email for details on how to apply. |
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Funding Opportunity: NEH Preservation Assistance Grants
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
Thinking about applying for a project involving CCAHA? We are here to help you prepare your application materials. Email Director of Development Lee Price to get started.
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CCAHA is committed to providing universal access to our programs.
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WORKSHOP SERIES
Let's Talk About That: Dialogue and Change in Collections Care
Dates:
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.
Click here to learn more about this program, view a full topic list for upcoming sessions, and register today!
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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