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Speaker: Sarah Sutton Date: February 4, 2022. 11:00am Title: Cultural Heritage and Climate Change: D(d)iplomacy for Neighbors and Nations Cultural heritage has been undervalued as a community and national resource in addressing climate change. Historic landscapes are critical waterline buffers and biodiversity habitats. Structures are refuges and examples of resilient construction. Human-made objects and art […]
Wafa Ghnaim Register here Embroidery in the Holy Land has existed for centuries, showcased in the decorated garments created andworn by Palestinian women for generations, as well as documented by the many international visitors who travelled to Palestine for pilgrimage or tourism. By the mid-nineteenth century, each region of historic Palestine had developed their own distinct […]
Sven Haakanson Ph.D., Curator, Burke Museum Associate Professor in Anthropology at the University of Washington Register here Over the past three decades, in collaboration with my community from Kodiak, Alaska, I have researched museum collections from around the world to learn about and return the embodied knowledge of our cultural history. From masks, clothing, baskets to boats we have systematically taken knowledge that […]
Sreekumar Menon Paintings Conservator, (Partner) Art Conservation Solutions Register here Wall paintings in Ladakh, the earliest specimens of which date from the eleventh century, mirror the development of Buddhism and Buddhist Art in the region.The materials and technique of these paintings,and their iconographic schemes, are complex and have transformed overtime. Many of these paintings have undergone damages due to various intrinsic and or extrinsic factors. Their conservation is […]
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Dr. Ndubuisi Ezeluomba Françoise Billion Richardson Curator of African Art New Orleans Museum of Art Friday, November 12, 2021 at 11:00 a.m. PDT About the program: Dr. Ezeluoma will discuss the restitution of Benin cultural patrimony. In 1897, the British government acted on a request from the Royal Niger Company to remove the Benin Oba (king), who […]
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Gurmeet S Rai Ms. Director, CRCI (India) Pvt Ltd Watch the Recording Here The Rajbagh Silk factory is a strand of the cultural legacy of Kashmir. Silk from Kashmir finds references in ancient, medieval and modern period narratives. In the 19th-20thC the bivoltine silk and crafts such as pashmina shawls from the valley were much […]
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UCLA/Getty Program's Distinguished Speaker Series Jeanelle Austin is co-founder and lead caretaker of the George Floyd Global Memorial, where she guides a team of volunteers to stand in the unique space of preservation and protest. She is also the creator of Racial Agency Initiative, a racial justice leadership coaching company. She began tending to George […]
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Ayesha Fuentes Stride Lecturer in Arts Conservation Northumbria University Watch the Recording Here Ayesha Fuentes will discuss Tibetan and Himalayan religious use of ritual objects made with human skulls and femurs. Fuentes incorporates conservation methods, documentation, and interpretation of the material knowledge and techniques used to select, prepare, activate, maintain and exchange these objects. This […]
Tessa de Alarcon, Grace Jan, Almoatz-bellah Elshahawi Friday May 21st, 11:00am - 12:30pm (PT) Register here Tessa de Alarcon How working in the US and Guatemala has Influenced the Way I Think About Conservation I will briefly discuss my experiences working in Guatemala as compared to working in the United States and reflect on how those experiences have impacted the […]
A conversation between Bárbaro Martínez-Ruiz and José Bedia, Moderated by Manuel Jordán May 18th, 10am - 11am PST Register here This program follows an exciting interdisciplinary seminar on African Objects in Museums, where students examined a series of objects including painted Yoruba drums and Kongo minkisi. To continue discussions, the Fowler Museum, the Cotsen Institute of […]
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Glenn Wharton, Andrea Geyer Friday April 23rd, 11:00am - 12:00pm (PT) UCLA/Getty Conservation Program Chair Glenn Wharton will interview artist Andrea Geyer about the conservation and display of 9 Scripts for a Nation at War, a work that was acquired by MoMA when Wharton served as the museum’s Media Conservator. Geyer is a German-born multi-disciplinary […]
Join museum professionals for a conversation about how conservation practices can serve as one of many strategies for decolonizing museums. RSVP on Eventbrite to receive the link. The Ethnographic Museum of Rwanda, financed by Belgium in the late 1980s as a symbol of cooperation with Rwanda, houses one of Africa’s most significant ethnographic collections. The […]
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Stephen Koob Chief Conservator Emeritus of The Corning Museum of Glass Friday March 12th, 11:00am - 12:00pm (PT) Watch the Recording Here Archaeological glass encompasses glass that has been buried, either in the ground or in fresh or salt water. In some cases glass was intentionally buried as grave gifts and can be found in archaeological cemeteries or […]
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Gabrielle Tayac Associate Professor of Public History, George Mason University Former Curator at the Smithsonian National Museum of American Indian with opening remarks by Dr. Darnell Hunt Dean, UCLA Division of Social Sciences Professor of Sociology and African American Studies About the lecture: A family of baskets. A library in a shell. A vow breathing […]
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Katherine Ridgeway, Dr. Dell Upton, Burt Pinnock Friday February 26th, 11:00am - 12:30pm (PT) Conservation and Confederate Monuments preserve and protect what and how The question of how Americans should address public monuments to the Confederacy, problematic symbols of white supremacy, received significant re-examination in the summer of 2020, sparking fresh discourse on how these monuments contribute […]
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Lylliam Posadas Friday January 29th, 11:00am - 12:00pm (PT) Conservators can play a significant role in the repatriation process and in addressing concerns in the care of sensitive collections. Conservators and repatriation staff can work together with tribal and community representatives to address some of the unjust histories of museum acquisitions and develop new approaches for […]
Brittany Cox Horological Conservator, Memoria Technica Friday December 18th, 11:00am - 12:00pm (PT) Register here In conservation there is always the question of tangible versus intangible qualities. Is one more important than the other? Should form follow function, or function follow form? If a functional object is beautifully presented and preserved, but doesn’t actually work, is it successful? The conservation of […]
Jeanne Marie Teutonico Associate Director, Strategy and Special Initiatives Getty Conservation InstituteFriday November 20th, 11:00am - 12:00pm (PT) Please note, this talk will not be recorded. Register here The Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) is best described as a private, international research organization that is part of a larger philanthropic enterprise dedicated to the understanding, conservation and enjoyment of the visual […]
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Dr. Ziad Al-Saad PhD, Professor of cultural heritage conservation and management at the Faculty of Archaeology and Anthropology Yarmouk University Friday October 30th, 11:00am - 12:00pm (PT) Register here Petra has been classified as being of World Heritage standards and is included on the world heritage list.The entire site of Petra, with its 2000 listed rock-carved […]
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Dr. Glenn Wharton Chair, UCLA/Getty Program in the Conservation of Archaeological and Ethnographic Materials invites you to attend UCLA/Getty Program's Distinguished Speaker Series featuring Dr. Spencer Crew Acting Director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture speaking on History, Memory and Conservation: Preserving the Past for Future Generations with opening remarks by […]
The UCLA/Getty Conservation Program presents “The man who can read the unreadable,” computer scientist and professor W. Brent Seales, the first speaker in the 50th Anniversary Lecture Series. Currently a Getty Conservation Institute Scholar, Seales and his team have been key to revealing texts on papyri that are too fragile to unroll, such as Homers […]
