Services

Funding: U.S. Sources

Funding: Canadian Sources

Services

Institutional and private collectors need a comprehensive plan to ensure the long-term care of their holdings. I customize conservation plans to suit your specific needs and budget. Some of the services I offer are:

• Strategic Planning: Identify, prioritize and budget for your conservation goals.
  
  
• Collection Surveys: Identify what is in your collection; describe and analyse current storage and display methods and materials. Make specific recommendations for maintenance and upgrade.
  
  
• Environmental Surveys: Monitor and record Temperature, Light, Relative Humidity and, in special cases, Air Quality. Make specific recommendations for maintenance and modification.
  
  
• Education is key to making informed choices for the art and artifacts under your care. I offer a number of informative lectures and demonstrations for interested groups or institutions.

For large or complex projects I will assemble a team of professionals to address your specific needs.

Funding: U.S. Sources

The following organizations offer grants that can help institutions in the United States and territories meet their conservation goals. If you are aware of other agencies offering conservation assistance, please contact me and I will add them to this list.

Heritage Preservation
Administers the Conservation Assessment Program (CAP) for the Institute of Museum and Library Service (IMLS). CAP provides non-competitive grants to small and mid-sized museums and historic sites to fund conservation assessments of their facilities and collections.

American Association of Museums (AAM)
Administers the Museums Assessment Program (MAP) for the IMLS. MAP provides non-competitive grants to museums. These grants include the Collections Management Assessment, which provides funding for conservation surveys. The survey can include all aspects of collections management, including collections policies, planning, access, documentation and collections care.

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
Preservation Assistance Grants provide funding up $5,000 for general Conservation Assessments as well as Conservation Plans addressing specific problems. Institutions which have already completed a Conservation Assessment or Plan, may apply for conservation supplies and furniture.

National Historic Publications and Records Commission
Funds projects that preserve documents (printed and electronic) significant to the history of the United States.

Getty Grant Program
Offers grants that fund architectural conservation, as well as conservation planning, collection surveys, research and treatment.

Funding: Canadian Sources

The following organizations offer grants that can help institutions in British Columbia and Canada meet their conservation goals. If you are aware of other agencies offering conservation assistance, please contact me and I will add them to this list.

B.C. Heritage Trust

Museums Assistance Program

Getty Grant Program
Offers grants that fund architectural conservation, as well as conservation planning, collection surveys, research and treatment.