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Join us for a conversation exploring how the museum preserves its collections while also making sustainable choices. This virtual talk brings together curators, collection managers, conservators, and exhibition preparators to share their insights, strategies, and examples of how sustainability is shaping the ways we store and exhibit our collections at the Eastman Museum. It will also highlight several grants the museum has received to support these efforts.
Panelists:
Jamie M. Allen, Stephen C. and Janice G. Ashley Curator and Head, Department of Photography
Ruth Wagner, grants manager
Peter Bagrov, senior curator, Moving Image Department
Emily Phoenix, assistant conservator
This project was funded in part by the Frankenthaler Climate Initiative of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation.
Acknowledgements
National Endowment for the Humanities
National Park Service Save America's Treasures Program
New York State Council on the Arts
NYS Historic Preservation Office (SHPO)
The Davenport-Hatch Foundation
ESL Charitable Foundation
Helen Frankenthaler Foundation
William & Sheila Konar Foundation
Louis B. Mayer Foundation
Pace Family Fund of the Rochester Area Community Foundation
The Packard Humanities Institute
Rochester Area Community Foundation, Vitality Grant in Historic Preservation
Elaine P. and Richard U. Wilson Foundation
Stephen B. and Janice G. Ashley
Bruce Bates
H. C. Digby Clements
Ronald H. Fielding and Susan Lobell
Kenneth A. Frederick, the Frederick Family Fund of the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation
Georgia Gosnell
Join us for a conversation exploring how the museum preserves its collections while also making sustainable choices. This virtual talk brings together curators, collection managers, conservators, and exhibition preparators to share their insights, strategies, and examples of how sustainability is shaping the ways we store and exhibit our collections at the Eastman Museum. It will also highlight several grants the museum has received to support these efforts.
Panelists:
Jamie M. Allen, Stephen C. and Janice G. Ashley Curator and Head, Department of Photography
Ruth Wagner, grants manager
Peter Bagrov, senior curator, Moving Image Department
Emily Phoenix, assistant conservator
This project was funded in part by the Frankenthaler Climate Initiative of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation.
Acknowledgements
National Endowment for the Humanities
National Park Service Save America's Treasures Program
New York State Council on the Arts
NYS Historic Preservation Office (SHPO)
The Davenport-Hatch Foundation
ESL Charitable Foundation
Helen Frankenthaler Foundation
William & Sheila Konar Foundation
Louis B. Mayer Foundation
Pace Family Fund of the Rochester Area Community Foundation
The Packard Humanities Institute
Rochester Area Community Foundation, Vitality Grant in Historic Preservation
Elaine P. and Richard U. Wilson Foundation
Stephen B. and Janice G. Ashley
Bruce Bates
H. C. Digby Clements
Ronald H. Fielding and Susan Lobell
Kenneth A. Frederick, the Frederick Family Fund of the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation
Georgia Gosnell
