MRCG News & Announcements
Northwestern University Libraries Project Conservator
Northwestern University Libraries offer a two-year full-time Project Conservator position. Under the supervision of the Chief Conservator, the Project Conservator will work with and assist conservation staff on two major endeavors: 19th Century Bookbinding Material Research Project and Digitization Projects…
Call for Editors and Contributors
Call for Editors and Contributors for Caring for Plant-Based Material Culture: A Conservation Handbook
Editors Lara Kaplan, Caitlin Mahony, and Ellen Carrlee seek chapter editors and content contributors for a new handbook on the care and conservation of plant-based material culture to be published by Routledge. Chapter editors will have oversight of one or more chapters and will be responsible for providing, soliciting, and organizing content as needed. Content can include entire chapters or shorter submissions, such as case studies or interviews. All voices and expertise are welcomed, and we are actively pursuing funding to support honoraria.
Two Paid 2023 Summer Internships Available at SLAM
The Saint Louis Art Museum is happy to offer two paid 2023 summer internship opportunities for graduate conservation students. The internship will be supervised by both Paintings and Paper Conservators and involves the inpainting phase of a long term project. Students from all specialties are encouraged to apply if interested.
Job Opportunity: Project Paper Conservator
The Indiana State Library was very excited to receive a grant from the Nicholas Noyes Foundation to fund a six-month conservation project to treat some of the most important 19th century wall maps in the ISL’s Indiana Division. The project conservator will work in the Indiana State Library’s Conservation Lab, under the supervision of the Staff Conservator, to stabilize and treat these rare maps. The maps selected for this project will be mid-19th century state and county varnished wall maps that are integral to the history of Indiana. For many of the maps selected, the Indiana State Library holds the last existing copy.
Job Opportunity: Conservation Specialist at The Preservation Lab
The Preservation Lab, a partnership to preserve and conserve the collections of the Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library and the University of Cincinnati Libraries, seeks applicants for a Conservation Specialist position.
The Conservation Specialist is a technician level position with on-the-job training that may appeal to emerging conservation professionals. This position will join a collaborative team of 7 full-time staff members, including conservators, a preservation librarian, technicians, student workers and volunteers to preserve collections from both institutions.
Call for Papers: 2023 Midwest Art History Society Conference
The 2023 Midwest Art History Society Conference is calling for papers related to the session "Art Conservation: The Intersection of Science, Art and History". The 49th annual conference will be held March 30–April 1, 2023 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin along beautiful Lake Michigan.
Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Assistant Conservator of Photography and Works on Paper, Permanent Full-Time
The Amon Carter Museum of American Art is one of the major repositories of American photography and works of art on paper in the world, ranging from early daguerreotypes and lithographs to site-specific installations by contemporary artists. The collection includes the archives of photographers Laura Gilpin, Eliot Porter, and Karl Struss, among others; complete sets of Richard Avedon’s In the American West and Alfred Stieglitz’s Camera Work; masterworks on paper by James M. Whistler, Arthur Dove, Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe, Charles Russell, Winslow Homer and John James Audubon. The state-of-the-art conservation and preservation facilities, coupled with the extraordinary work of the other departments in the museum provide a unique place to grow professionally.
William Anthony Conservation Lecture 2022
Yasmeen Khan “Growing with the Job: Reflections of a Career in Conservation”
Thursday, Nov. 3, at 6 p.m.-7 p.m.
After an unorthodox entry into the field of conservation, Yasmeen Khan moved between paper conservation and book conservation for many years. Originally from Pakistan, she completed internships in Germany and eventually moved to the United States where she began working as a conservator. Ms. Khan will illustrate the trajectory of her life and lessons learned with treatment highlights from her career.