AIC's 47th Annual Meeting

In association with the AIC's 47th Annual Meeting in Uncasville CT, the Foundation for the American Institute for Conservation (FAIC), Canadian Conservation Institute (CCI) and the organizers of the RE-ORG and STASHc websites are sponsoring an innovative Angels Project.

• Do you want to learn and do good at the same time?
• Do you love working as a team towards a common goal?
• Is developing creative, practical, low-cost solutions to improve collection storage your idea of fun?
• Is it a challenge to access collections in storage in your institution or in the institution(s) you work with?
• Have you wondered whether the ICCROM-UNESCO-CCI RE-ORG Method for reorganizing museum storage would work for you?

The 2019 “RE-ORG Angels” project (the first RE-ORG activity to be organized in the US) will apply a will apply a condensed version of the implementation phase of RE-ORG (phase 4) to reorganize the storage room of the New London Maritime Society in New London, CT in one day! This will add the NLMS to the list of 144 institutions in over 30 countries which have accomplished a RE-ORG project.

To get the most out of this activity, we recommend (but do not require) that volunteers in this Angels project take part in the Connecting to Collections Care (C2CC) online course “Planning a RE-ORG project[SL2] ” involving six webinars presented between March - June of 2019. This online course is coordinated by the Canadian Conservation Institute (CCI) and features lecturers from Belgium, Canada, Italy (ICCROM) and the US. It is a joint project between the organizers of RE-ORG and AIC’s Storage for Art, Science and History Collections (STASHc). The course will focus on Phases 1-3 of RE-ORG preparing the host institution and registrants for the work that will be accomplished on-site. Registered Angels volunteers will receive a reduced registration rate for the online course.

Sign up now to volunteer for the Angels Project by emailing Ruth Seyler at rseyler@culturalheritage.org. Please include a current resume or CV. A maximum of 20 volunteers can register for this project, after which a waiting list will be established.

Facilitators: Simon Lambert (CCI), Rachael Perkins Arenstein (A.M. Art Conservation), Lisa Goldberg (Goldberg Preservation Services) , Elizabeth Morse (Elizabeth Morse Paper Conservation), Susan Tamulevich (New London Maritime Society)

Important information: Note that this full-day project (9 a.m. – 5 p.m.) will take place before the start of the annual meeting rather than after, as in past years.  Participants should be comfortable doing light lifting and working in moderately dusty environments. Please wear comfortable clothing and shoes and if possible, bring a  lab coat or disposable coverall.