The Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts, a regional non-profit conservation lab in Philadelphia, has organized a program on the preservation of East Asian Art in November, hosted and cosponsored by the Athenaeum of Philadelphia.

Register Now at:
http://ccaha.org/education/program-calendar

Topics to be covered will include:

· Japanese Prints, Scrolls, and Screens
· Historical Context for Chinese Art & Artifacts
· Paper-based Art & Artifacts of Korea
· Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Art Conservation
· Display, Storage, & Handling of Mounted Materials: Scrolls, Screens, and Albums
· Housing & Storage of Bound East Asian Materials
· Western & Asian Approaches to Conservation of Asian Objects

Speakers will include nationally and internationally recognized art historians, curators, and conservators.

· Soyeon Choi, Senior Paper Conservator, Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts
· Julie Nelson Davis, Associate Professor, Department of the History of Art, University of Pennsylvania
· Felice Fischer, PhD, Luther W. Brady Curator of Japanese Art and Curator of East Asian Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art
· Andrew Hare, Supervising Conservator of East Asian Painting, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
· H. Christopher Luce
· Jesse Munn, Retired Senior Book Conservator, Library of Congress
· Chi-sun Park, Yong-in University
· Tomoko Sakomura, Assistant Professor of Art History, Swarthmore College
· Shiho Sasaki, Conservator of Paintings, Asian Art Museum
· Minah Song, Paper Conservator, Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts
· Alicia Volk, PhD, Assistant Professor of Japanese Art, University of Maryland
· Hyunsoo Woo, The Maxine and Howard Lewis Associate Curator, Philadelphia Museum of Art

This program is intended for cultural heritage professionals responsible for the care and handling of paper-based art and artifacts from East Asia,including curators, collections managers, librarians, archivists and conservators, as well as collectors and others interested in the history and care of works from this region.

Optional tours are being offered to program participants at The Athenaeum of Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Location: The Athenaeum of Philadelphia
219 S. 6th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106-3719

When: Thursday, November 4 & Friday, November 5, 2010
8:45 AM – 5:00 PM

Registration Fees: CCAHA Member $225/ Non-member $250

Registration Deadline: September 21, 2010

For more information and to register, go to:
http://ccaha.org/education/program-calendar

Major funding for this program was generously provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities, The Pew Charitable Trusts and the Independence Foundation.

The Academy of Certified Archivists will award 10 Accreditation Recertification Credits (ARCs) to eligible Certified Archivists (CAs) attending this program. For more information, go to www.certifiedarchivists.org.

Questions? Visit our Education Program Calendar at www.ccaha.org , call 215-545-0613 or email pso@ccaha.org.

ORELIA DANN
PRESERVATION SERVICES ASSISTANT
264 S. 23RD STREET
PHILADELPHIA, PA 19103
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