The Art of Collection Management: Maintenance Best Practices to Protect and Preserve Your Art
Hello AAM!
I'm excited to share this month's free Artwork Archive webinar with you all. I'll be joined by 4Culture's Guy Merrill and Stanford Children's Health's Antonia Dapena-Tretter for an engaging chat about art collection maintenance best practices – how to be proactive, not reactive. As stewards of cultural heritage, it's critical that we do our best to protect and preserve our objects and their stories. Here are the details for the webinar:
Artwork Archive presents:
The Art of Collection Management: Maintenance Best Practices to Protect and Preserve Your Art
Thursday, May 26th @ 3pm ET | 12pm PT
Our art ages just like us.
Don't let your collection's legacy deteriorate. Instead, create an enduring art collection with expert advice on maintenance and conservation.
In this webinar we'll cover strategies for assessing, maintaining and treating your art collection with our conservation savvy panelists. Join Antonia Dapena-Tretter, Art Curator at Stanford Children's Health and Guy Merrill, Public Art Collections Manager at 4Culture, King County's cultural funding agency, for an engaging conversation on maintenance best practices.
What will we cover?
- Steps for assessing and evaluating your art collection
- Establishing a sustainable cadence for scheduling maintenance
- Advice for speeding up and modernizing your maintenance workflows
- Tips for working and coordinating with conservators
- How to prioritize conservation across your entire collection – what do you address first?
- Best practices for reporting on maintenance including condition reports & treatment plans
- Making the case for deaccessions
- How to utilize your CMS to not only stay on top of maintenance but to advocate for it.
Plus you'll discover how maintenance actually saves your art organization money!
Register here.This webinar will be recorded and shared after the event. "The Art of Collection Management with Artwork Archive" is a webinar series that highlights popular features and effective workflows within the Artwork Archive platform for collection managers, registrars, gallerists, and their teams. You'll come away from these presentations with easy-to-execute strategies and tips to set your art organization up for success.
Artwork Archive is an online art inventory management system used by artists, collectors, and collecting institutions in over 130 countries around the world. Learn more here.
Hope to see you!
Elysian
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Elysian McNiff Koglmeier (she/her)
Head of Growth
Artwork Archive
Part Time Hours
Online: Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays