Save the Date & Call for Papers: TACG Forum 2019 on Preventive Conservation: Conservation in Collections Management, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, February 9, 2019
Saturday, February 9, 2019 1:30 – 5 PM Birkbeck Room, Ontario Heritage Centre, 10 Adelaide St E, Toronto, ON M5C 1J4 Canada <URL:http://www.heritagetrust.on.ca<http://www.heritagetrust.on.ca/>> Are you an emerging conservator whose research paper focused on an aspect of preventive conservation? Are you a collections care professional who recently wrote a paper on a preventive conservation topic or have a topic you would be willing to turn into a paper? Please contact Toronto Area Conservators Group coordinators Mel, Nick and Wendy if you like to submit an abstract for consideration, and for any other inquiries regarding this Forum (including sponsorship opportunities) at [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Please join us for an informative afternoon of presentations on several approaches to preventive conservation. The presentations confirmed to date include: Simon Lambert, Preservation Advisor, Canadian Conservation Institute: “Tools and resources in preventive conservation: the user perspective”. This is well timed given the recent release of CCI’s Preventive conservation guidelines for collections, a new online resource for collections care professionals: <URL:https://www.canada.ca/en/conservation-institute/services/preventive-conservation/guidelines-collections> Greg Kelley and Melissa Maltby, Royal Ontario Museum: “Moving Heaven and Earth: Re-housing the ROM’s Canadian and European Furniture Collections” Ruth del Fresno Guillem, PhD, Conservator in private practice: “Deterioration, a concept to be reviewed. The artist interview will help identify what is damage and what is not.” Following the Forum, an opportunity to meet the presenters and discuss further over dinner at a nearby restaurant is being investigated. The Forum is being held at a beautiful heritage venue, The Ontario Heritage Centre. This carefully restored building erected in 1909 for the Canadian Birkbeck Investment and Savings Company now serves as the offices of the Ontario Heritage Trust. In addition to its heritage value, the Ontario Heritage Centre is centrally located in downtown Toronto steps from the Queen subway stop. Watch for further information from the Toronto Area Conservators Group (TACG) on social media including the TACG website: <URL:http://torontoconservators.wixsite.com/tacg> Toronto Area Conservators Group: Melissa Maltby, Nicholas Hamilton and Wendy McPhee ****************************************************************************************** Wendy McPhee Gallery and Exhibits Curator, TD Gallery Toronto Reference Library 789 Yonge Street Toronto, ON M4W 2G8 416 393-7082 Come see our latest exhibit, Pathways: Following traces of Indigenous routes across Ontario! It runs until October 28. https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/programs-and-classes/exhibits/pathways.jsp ****** Unsubscribe by sending a message to [email protected] Searchable archives: http://cool.conservation-us.org/byform/mailing-lists/cdl/
