Photographs capture priceless moments of history but time and improper storage methods can cause damage and deterioration. Attend this workshop led by museum conservation professionals and learn about storing and caring for your family photos!
In this photograph conservation workshop, you will learn:
- How to identify photographic types throughout history
- Techniques for storing and cataloging your family photos
- The types of materials and surfaces that are harmful to photographs
- Proper handling of sensitive photographs
- Resources for photograph conservation products
- And more!
This hybrid program will be offered at the Museum and via Zoom. $5 for members and $10 for non-members. Additional preservation sample materials kit available for purchase at the event.
Click HERE to register for the in-person workshop at the American Swedish Historical Museum.
Click HERE to register to attend the workshop virtually over Zoom.
About the presenters:
Mackenzie Fairchild
Mackenzie Fairchild is a second-year graduate fellow specializing in Objects and Preventive Conservation at the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation (WUDPAC). Mackenzie loves caring for items that hold meaning for a person or culture and sustaining the stories that connect them through preservation. Mackenzie graduated in 2018 from Marist College-Istituto Lorenzo de’ Medici with a B.S. in Art Conservation. During her four years studying in Florence, Italy, she gathered conservation experience in many specialties. Throughout her career, Mackenzie has worked in the conservation departments at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, the Field Museum of Natural History, the Oriental Institute Museum of Archaeology, and private practices in Chicago, Illinois.
Ashley L. Stanford
Ashley L. Stanford (she/her) is currently a second-year Graduate Fellow at the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation majoring in photograph conservation. After graduating from the University of Texas at Austin in 2015 with a BA in Art History, she interned for several years in various conservation labs and archival collections in her hometown of Houston, Texas including The Menil Collection, the Rothko Chapel Archives, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. These experiences in combination with her graduate school studies have allowed Ashley to work with a wide range of photographic materials, from daguerreotypes to digital. Ashley has always been drawn to the many ways photography is able to connect people, and as a conservator, she hopes to help preserve these memories and stories as told through photographs.