ARCS Virtual Meet Up: Talking About Textiles
Social
10/11/2023 7:30 PM–8:30 PM
Zoom Meeting
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Description
Anne Murray Chilton, owner and Senior Textile Conservator of Murray Conservation Services and Museum Administrator of the Oklahoma Railway Museum in Oklahoma City, will present about common conservation issues for textiles and how to mitigate them. She will answer questions from particpants.
Hosts:
ARCS Meet Up Subcommittee
- Nora Djanev, Chair
- Kelly Flaherty, Committee Member
- Allison Russell, Committee Member
- Danielle Swanson, Committee Member
- Laura Elliff Cruz, Board Liaison
Anne Murray Chilton has owned and operated Murray Conservation Services for fifteen years. Ms. Chilton is also the Museum Administrator at the Oklahoma Railway Museum. She worked as an Independent Contractor at various Smithsonian museums. At The Smithsonian National Museum of American History (NMAH) she worked on the Military Uniform Re-housing Project and The Star Spangled Banner Project. Previously she was a two year Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Textile Conservation at the National Museum of the American Indian. She attended New York University, Institute of Fine Arts, Conservation Center with a concentration in textile conservation. Her fourth year internship was spent at the National Park Service, Harpers Ferry Center working on Civil War material, and on the applications of digital analysis for the study of textile fibers. Anne received her BA in Anthropology and Art History at the University of Colorado in 1997. She completed her preprogram work at Art Conservation Services and Robert Mann Oriental Rug Restoration both in Denver Colorado working on South American and Navajo textiles. and Oriental rugs.
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