How a Conservator Looks at Works on Paper

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Cost: Free

This program series was previously funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, which allowed us to provide high quality educational programs in fulfillment of our mission. Please consider a donation to CCAHA to help keep our webinars free of cost to all.

Join Nancy Ash, former Senior Conservator of Works of Art on Paper at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and current CCAHA board member, for a presentation on close looking skills for appreciating works on paper. In this talk, she will provide you with new ways to look at art, how to describe what you’re seeing, and how to consider the context for the artist’s choice of materials and techniques. These visual literacy skills can be used broadly, regardless of your career or level.  

This webinar addresses Focus Area #3: Collaboration across all professional levels and related disciplines of the FAIC’s Held In Trust Report on Education, Professional Development, and Leadership.  

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About our speaker:

Nancy Ash worked at the Philadelphia Museum of Art from 1991 to 2020, and worked previously at CCAHA, the National Gallery of Art, and the Library of Congress. She served on the AIC Committee that produced the 1994 Code of Ethics and Guidelines for Practice, was a founding member of the Paper Conservation Catalog in 1984, and founding co-chair of the AIC-Book and Paper Discussion Group. She is interested in and has published on artists’ materials and techniques and on digital documentation of conservation records.