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Lower Hudson Conference announces Year II* of the Practicum
for 21st Century Museum Professionals In Historic House Museums
2007 The Context
* 2008 The Content
2009 The Container
Here's the Spring 2008 Schedule and Registration Preview:
March – May, 2008: All Programs are on Mondays, 10 am – 4 pm.
MARCH 3, 2008 (SNOW DATE: March 10)
SYMPOSIUM: Contents of the Historic House Museum:
Evaluating and Handling Collections
in the Historic House Environment
Host Site: John Jay Homestead, State Historic Site
Location: Katonah, NY (Westchester)
What's in the House? How does the Collection Define an Interpretive Context?
Putting Policy into Practice; Stewardship of Domestic Textile Collections; The House as an Environment for the Contents; Effects of Natural, Historic and Contemporary Lighting.
Symposium Presenters & Case Studies:
-Stephen Long, VP Collections & Education, Lower East Side Tenement Museum: The Big Picture: A Collections Management Overview
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Erin Crissman, Curator, with Liselle LaFrance, Director, Historic Cherry Hill, and Annah Perch, Director, Stepping Stones Foundation: A Double Perspective: Phasing from Assessment, Inventory and Documentation to
Access and Interpretive Use of an Entire House's Contents.
-Kate Barker, Director of Field Services, Textile Conservation Workshop: Objects of Domesticity: The Place of Textiles in the Historic House
-Anne Jordan and Frank Futral, Roosevelt-Vanderbilt National Historic Sites: Gaining Control over Textiles: from Val-Kill to Vanderbilt Mansion
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Paul Himmelstein, Appelbaum & Himmelstein Conservators: The Lit Environment: Re-Lighting the Hyde Collection & John Jay SHS
-Althea Corey, Site Director and Nancy Errico, Historic Crafts Interpreter: A Strategy for Reproduction of a Coverlet at Van Cortlandt Manor
(HHV)
WORKSHOPS:
MARCH 17, 2008 (SNOW DATE: March 24)
WORKSHOP: Understanding Domestic Technology:
How the Historic House Works
Host Site: Locust Grove, The Samuel FB Morse Historic Site
Location: Poughkeepsie, NY (Dutchess)
Assessing historic lighting, heating and plumbing fixtures in the face of 21st c.
museum temperature and relative humidity.
Faculty: Mimi Sherman/ historic lighting devices;
Paul Himmelstein/conservation assessment of the
environment; Marc Williams/ Temp and RH effects on wood surfaces and
furnishings.
APRIL 7, 2008
WORKSHOP: Controlling Light & Shade in the Historic House
Environment Monitoring, Preserving, Storing and Sustaining Collections
Host Site: Wilderstein
Location: Rhinebeck, NY (Dutchess)
Faculty: Paul Himmelstein,
Deborah Trupin/ Upholstered Furniture, window coverings.
APRIL 28, 2008
WORKSHOP: Handling and Care of Domestic Textiles (I)
Host Site: Lyndhurst, NTHP
Location: Tarrytown, NY (Westchester)
Faculty:
Kate Barker, Textile Conservator, Field Services Director, TCW
MAY 5, 2008
WORKSHOP: Surmountable Textile Exhibit Issues
Host Site: Boscobel
Location: Garrison, NY (Putnam)
Faculty:
Gwen Spicer, Textile Conservator, Spicer Art Conservation
MAY 12, 2008
WORKSHOP: Handling and Care of Domestic Textiles (II)
Host Site:
Roosevelt-Vanderbilt National Historic Sites
Location: Hyde Park, NY (Dutchess)
Faculty: Kate Barker
, Textile Conservator, Field Services Director, TCW
MAY 19, 2008
WORKSHOP: Historic Textile Reproduction Options
Host Site:
Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum
Location: Pelham Bay Park, Bronx
Faculty:
Celia Oliver
Rabbit Goody
Registration Information:
Who should attend?
Staff, boards, volunteers and consultants in a diversity of areas (e.g. research, collections management, education, administration, communications, community
planning, conservation, historic preservation, exhibition design, marketing/audience development) are encouraged to attend at any point in the practicum cycle, by attending an annual symposium and/or one or more
workshop offerings each spring.
Practicum Registration Fee Includes:
Registration includes the cost of full-day program, morning coffee, lunch and resource materials. Join LHC now, and save! For information about
membership and membership benefits of Lower Hudson Conference, visit www.lowerhudsonconference.org/membership.
Individual Program Registration Fees:
$55 per person (non-member)
$45 per LHC member or representative of an LHC member organization
$40 each for two or more attending from an LHC member organization
Practicum Package Registration Fee:
$240 per person for Symposium + all workshops
$120 per person for Symposium + any 2 workshops of your choice
Registration Form (click here for printable form):
Please print & complete this form for each individual registrant
Name__________________________________________
Affiliation________________________________________
Position_________________________________________
Address_________________________________________
Town/ State/ Zip___________________________________
Tel: [work] _______________ [home]__________________
E-mail:__________________________________________
LHC Member? [ ] Organizational Member [ ] Individual Member
For Membership rates and information see: www.lowerhudsonconference.org
Please sign me up for (check all that apply):
Symposium
[ ] Contents of the Historic House Museum
March 3 … John Jay Homestead, SHS, Katonah
Workshops:
[ ] Understanding Domestic Technology:
How the Historic House Works
March 17…Locust Grove, Poughkeepsie
[ ] Controlling Light & Shade
April 7 ……Wilderstein, Rhinebeck
[ ] Solutions to Domestic Textile Collections
Handling, Storing and Access (choose 1)
April 28….. Roosevelt-Vanderbilt NHS, Hyde Park
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[ ] May 12 ….. Lyndhurst, Tarrytown
[ ] Surmountable Textile Exhibition Issues
May 12……Boscobel
[ ] Historic Textile Reproductions Options
May 19…... Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum, Bronx
Total Enclosed: $_____________
Checks should be made payable to Lower Hudson Conference, and
mailed with completed form to LHC, 2199 Saw Mill River Rd., Elmsford, NY 10523
New in 2008: Responsive "House Calls" to examine domestic textile collections in the Greater Hudson Valley's Linen Closets.
10 free, half-day, responsive on-site visits to your site, by individual 2008
Practicum faculty conservators and consultants, will be available to participating organizations upon application to LHC Executive Director Tema Harnik, between
March 18 and August 1, 2008. If selected, your organization can plan a mutually agreeable date and time in that period for a consultant to visit your house and
collections, provide an assessment or recommendations related to textile collections care, storage, access, reproduction, environment or exhibition. Once
the visit has been made, the site and the consultant report back to LHC, and LHC will pay the consultant directly for half-day time and travel.
You can only apply for a Responsive House Call site visit once the practicum is
underway (after the first March 17th workshop). Requests for textile expert House Calls will be considered first-come, first-served. Applicants must attend at least
one workshop in 2008's Content Practicum to be eligible to apply. Responsive "House Calls" are offered by Lower Hudson Conference through the generous support of The Coby Foundation.
Are There Resources To Support Cost of Travel to These
Professional Development Programs?
In New York State, paid or volunteer staff of museums and historical agencies
may apply for NYSCA "Go!" Grants from Upstate History Alliance, to subsidize travel and registration for professional development programs such as the
Historic House Museum Practicum. Requests for "Go!" Grants are due at least 30 days before the proposed travel. Contact Upstate History Alliance at 1-800-895-1648, e-mail info@upstatehistory.org, or visit www.upstatehistory.org for application information.
2008 Practicum Program Sponsors:
Institute of Museum & Library Services (IMLS)
Lower Hudson Conference's Historic House Museum Practicum is supported by
a multi-year grant from the Institute of Museum & Library Services, an independent federal agency that grows and sustains a "Nation of Learners," because lifelong learning is critical to success.
New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA)
Lower Hudson Conference receives operating and program support from the Museum Program of the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency, for
regional and statewide services to the museum field.
The Bay and Paul Foundation
The Coby Foundation
New York Council for the Humanities
Practicum Goals:
The Practicum for 21st Century Museum Professionals in Historic House
Museums looks to re-invigorate mission, initiate change, invite new audiences, encourage professional collaborations, and improve presentation and planning in
historic house museums and sites so as to provide benefit to the public, and sustain their value to local communities.
Lower Hudson Conference
Becoming Greater Hudson Heritage Network
2199 Saw Mill River Road, Elmsford, NY 10523
Tel: 914-592-6726
Fax: 914-592-6946
e-mail: lowerhudson@msn.com
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