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Lower Hudson Conference of Historical Agencies & Museums (LHC) has awarded $111,030 in conservation treatment grants to 22 organizations, in association with the Museum Program of the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), a state agency. These re-granted funds will provide treatment by professional conservators to aid in stabilizing, preserving, and making accessible to the public an array of unique objects in collections of New York State's museums, historical and cultural organizations- from Mumford to Waterford, and from Franklin County to Flushing, Queens. 2007 grants will support conservation of American and European oil paintings of local subjects, historic scenes, and portraits from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries with their frames, and a painted theatre curtain. Works on paper include 19th c. pastel portraits, early 20th c. printed broadsides and 17th c. sepia ink drawings. Grant funds will conserve such diverse objects as turn-of-the-century children's wicker furniture, a schoolboy's leather travel trunk, and iron furriers' tools. Textile treatments will be carried out on 19th c. needlework samplers, a silk embroidered ship picture, a hand woven woolen shawl and needlepoint-covered Louis XV armchairs. These grants are awarded for prioritized, urgently needed conservation of objects that, once treated, will impact public interpretive programs, exhibitions and education. Non-profit organizations with stewardship responsibility for cultural collections, (but without their own in-house conservation staff) were eligible applicants; state or federally owned collections are ineligible for support. Conservation Treatment Grant funding for paintings, works on paper, textiles, furniture, sculpture, ethnographic, historical and decorative objects, also supports accompanying professional treatment of frames, supports, stands and mounts that are integral to the final presentation of the object, after conservation. Lower Hudson Conference strives to provide support for conservation treatments that are executed on the highest professional level. The field of conservation is continually changing, with pioneering research and dissemination of findings on innovative materials and techniques. Although there are many paths into the field of conservation, we acknowledge practitioners who have demonstrated high levels of proficiency and advanced knowledge, adherence to the ethics and standards of the American Institute of Conservation (AIC), and are recognized for their expertise in the museum field. An evaluation of the first five years of the Conservation Treatment Grant Program (2000-04) reported that these grants led to public impact outcomes beyond the actual conservation of museum objects, including heightened appreciation of the conserved artifacts, increased public awareness of the institution's role as stewards, and sparked further institutional, strategic, financial and conservation planning. Beyond these outcomes, grant recipients reported that Conservation Treatment funding prompted fuller use of their collections (for exhibition, web content and loan), enhanced interpretive capability, and expanded opportunity to educate the public about art, history, conservation and museum work. 46 grant applications were received at LHC by June 1st from institutions in 26 counties of New York State, requesting an aggregate of more than $280,000 in grant support. 22 awards totaling $111,030 were recommended by a peer panel of conservators, curators and museum professionals. Individual 2007 Conservation Treatment Grants range from $1650 to $7500. Of the 22 funded institutions, 60% have annual budgets under $350,000 and 40% have budgets over $350,000. Institutional operating budgets of 2007's grant recipients range from $17,000 to $17 million per year. View Conservation Treatment Grant Winners of this and past years
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