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Conversations on the Commons: All About Objects
January 21, 2022 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
All About Objects: Artifact Care, Description, and Management
January 21, 2022, 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. *new time*
With Valarie Kinkade, Principal of Museum and Collector Resource, LLC, and Stacen Goldman, Curator at the Framingham History Center
Filigree or verdigris? Crazing or cracking? There’s a lot of talk about archival processes, but what about object care and description? Do you know how to deal with that mildewed leather portfolio? Pigeon poop on statues or memorials? How do you tag a porcelain teapot? Describe an old painting? What guidelines do you use? Do you have guidelines for your enthusiastic volunteers? Tell us about your projects, share your sources, and let’s connect over a conversation on object collections.
Registration is free. REGISTER HERE!
This Conversation will be livestreamed. We will do our best to monitor your questions and comments during the livestream. A recording will be publicly available in the Conversations on the Commons Archive.
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- Before beginning Museum and Collector Resource, Valarie Kinkade worked for nearly 2 decades in curatorial and collections management in a wide variety of museums, including the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, a Frank Lloyd Wright House, house museums dating from the 17th and 18th centuries and as the Curator of the U.S. Coast Guard Museum. In the 1990’s she founded Museum and Collector Resource to address a growing need for short-term, museum-quality collections care, registration, museum planning, exhibit development, research, collections moves, and collections management systems consulting. MCR clients include small, volunteer-run, house museums, tribal cultural centers, African American museums and HBC’s, large historical societies, art museums, science centers, religious institutions, high net worth private collectors, and multi-national corporations.
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- Stacen Goldman has worked in local history for ten years, and has been the Curator at the Framingham History Center for the past six. Her work is focused on democratizing historical collections and imagining creative ways of engaging with history through material culture. The goal of her work is to make people feel immersed, empowered, and emotionally invested in community history. Stacen holds a Bachelor of Arts in History from Bard College and a Master of Arts in History with a certificate in Historical Agencies and Administration from Northeastern University. She was previously the director of the South End Historical Society in Boston.
Questions? Be in touch with Caroline Littlewood: commons@masshistoryalliance.org
Conversations on the Commons
Where people from Massachusetts history organizations get to vent, empathize, laugh, complain, think, collaborate, brainstorm, plan, and in general be up to no good.