CONSERVATION CENTER FOR ART AND HISTORIC ARTIFACTS ANNOUNCES
ARCHITECTURAL RECORDS WORKSHOP IN PITTSBURGH, PA

The Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts, The Heinz
Architectural Center, and the Conservation Department of the
Carnegie Museum of Art are co-sponsoring a one day architectural
records workshop, "Have You Got the Blues?  Architectural Records:
Their Identification, Management, Storage, and Treatment," in
Pittsburgh, PA on Friday, October 4, 1996.  The workshop will be
held at the Carnegie Museum of Art Theater, 4400 Forbes Avenue,
Pittsburgh, PA.  A registration fee of $75.00 includes a box lunch
and materials.  Enrollment will be limited to thirty participants.
The workshop is partially funded by the National Endowment for the
Humanities, The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, and the
Dolfinger-McMahon Foundation.

AUDIENCE: The workshop is intended for architectural historians,
architects, librarians, archivists, museum curators, collections
care managers, conservators, and technicians who have architectural
records or other oversized paper-based materials in their care or
collections.

SUBJECT:  The speakers will address the problems of caring for the
diverse materials of an architectural records collection.  The
workshop will help participants identify different original and
reproductive processes; consider options for organization,
cataloging, access, and reformatting of architectural records;
recognize storage problems and options; and learn basic collections
care methods and remedial treatments that can be safely
accomplished in-house.  The workshop will include a tour of the
storage facilities of The Heinz Architectural Center at the
Carnegie Museum of Art and demonstrations of appropriate handling
techniques and repairs of architectural drawings and reproductions.

SPEAKERS:  Lois Price, Conservator of Library Collections at the
H.I. DuPont Winterthur Museum; Dennis McFadden, Curator of
Architecture, The Heinz Architectural Center, the Carnegie Museum
of Art; and Joan Irving, Conservator, Conservation Center for Art
and Historic Artifacts.


FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND A REGISTRATION FORM, PLEASE CONTACT:

Helen Corr
Assistant,Preservation Services Office
Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts
264 South 23rd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Tel: 215.545.0613    Fax:  215.735.9313
email:  [log in to unmask]


Created by Congress in 1965, the National Endowment for the
Humanities is an independent agency that supports education,
research, preservation projects and public programs in the
humanities.

The Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts (CCAHA),
established in 1977, is a non-profit regional conservation
laboratory serving other non-profit cultural, educational, and
research institutions as well as private individuals and
organizations that are located principally in the Mid-Atlantic
region.  The Center specializes in the treatment of works of art
and historic artifacts on paper, such as prints, maps, posters,
historic wallpaper, photographs, rare books, scrapbooks,
manuscripts, and related materials, such as parchment and papyrus.
It also offers on-site consultation services; educational programs
and seminars; and internships, fellowships, and apprenticeships.

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