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#ARCSConf Les Bénévoles Sites & Meet Your Board Member ARCS Update Vol 4 | Update 13

July 2, 2019 | ARCS News

Les Bénévoles Sites Announced

In this update we’ll begin featuring some of the great sites that will be hosting Les Bénévoles projects on November 6th:

The Center for Art in Wood
The Center for Art in Wood is a non-profit museum that advocates for creative engagement in the material of wood. Since 1986, it has presented an increasingly ambitious roster of exhibitions and publications to document the field and its artists and built a museum collection of 1200 works in wood. The Center for Art in Wood is seeking 3-4 volunteers to add exhibition history to its collection management database.

https://centerforartinwood.org/

Historic Arch Street Meeting House
Arch Street Meeting House is a National Historic Landmark and has been a Quaker place of worship since 1682. They are seeking volunteers to perform condition assessments and plan for upgraded storage for their historic furniture collections.

http://www.historicasmh.org/

James A. Michener Art Museum
The Michener collection includes the most comprehensive and significant collection of Pennsylvania Impressionist paintings in public hands. This movement, now recognized nationally and

internationally, developed and flourished in New Hope, Pennsylvania in the early decades of the twentieth century. The museum is actively building its studio craft collection as well as expanding its holdings of contemporary painting, sculpture, works on paper, and decorative arts. The Michener seeks volunteers to condition report objects in its permanent collection.

https://www.michenerartmuseum.org/

Learn about more of our wonderful host sites in future ARCS Updates.  

Meet Your ARCS Board Member

This week we would like to introduce you to one of our newest Board members, Melissa Bechhoefer.

I am the Director of Integrative Collections at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. I received my BA from Oberlin College, and after feeling compelled to make sense of the collections excavated in MY archaeological field school, went on to complete an MS in Museum and Field Studies from the University of Colorado Boulder. I have worked in museum collections management and registration for nearly 20 years, managing many types of collections throughout my career. Prior to starting with DMNS, I was a Museum Curator with the National Park Service and Registrar at History Colorado. I’ve been Primary Investigator or project manager on numerous collections improvement grants from the Institute for Museum and Library Services and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Previously, I served on boards and committees for the American Alliance of Museums, Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections, Mountain-Plains Museums Association, and on Master’s Committees for museum studies students. I’m passionate about best-practices in the physical care of collections, and providing  researchers, students, source communities, and the public both physical and digital access to collections and their associated data.

Reminder: ARCS Webinar – Conservation Red Flags: Warning Signs for your Collection

It’s not too late to register for our upcoming webinar  “Conservation Red Flags: Warning Signs for Your Collection”. The webinar will feature three conservation and collections professionals, each with their own distinct areas of expertise:

  • Jennifer Waxman, Archives Manager-National World War II Museum
  • Jason Wyatt, Collections Manager-The James Museum of Western & Wildlife Art
  • Heather Becker, CEO-The Conservation Center

Using examples from their own institutions, the presenters will take you through the issues faced by museum professionals in conserving paper and three-dimensional artifacts, and how they have used their experience to meet these challenges.

July 10, 2019
12:00PM-1:00PM EST

Register Now!

Important Dates

  • July 10, 2019. ARCS Webinar - Conservation Red Flags: Warning Signs for your Collection
  • November 7 – 9, 2019. #ARCSConf 2019 in Philadelphia, PA.
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