The Midwest Regional Conservation Guild is delighted to announce that registration for our 2022 symposium will open on August 1, 2022. The hybrid symposium will be open to in-person and virtual attendees.

September 28-29, 2022
Detroit Film Theater at the Detroit Institute of Arts

The relatively recent introduction of rigid or semi-rigid gels (gellan gum, agarose, agar, xanthan gum etc.) to the field of paper conservation opened new possibilities for treatments, especially for local cleaning. In the fall of 2016, research began at the Smithsonian American Art Museum focused on the use of rigid gels as well as the optimization of aqueous systems for local treatment of stained artworks on paper with water-sensitive media. This workshop is based on the results of this research, and was later expanded to include applications in other specialties.