Applicant Eligibility
Applications will be accepted from non-profit museums and historical organizations or other cultural institutions that own, care for and exhibit collections to the public. Grant awards will be made to institutions lacking in-house conservation staff with expertise in the area for which support is requested. Collections owned by state or federal agencies are ineligible for grant support. Organizations may submit only one request, which may involve a single object or a group of related objects, all owned by the applicant institution.

Eligible institutions of all sizes are welcome to request support from this state-wide program; those with small budgets are encouraged to apply. Priority consideration will be given to applicants who have not yet received three consecutive treatment grants.

What We Fund
Support is available for conservation treatment of paintings, works on paper (including individual drawings, watercolors, prints or photographs), textiles (including costumes, domestic textiles and upholstery), furniture, frames, sculpture, historical, ethnographic and decorative objects.
Support is also available for treatment costs for supports, frames, stands and mounts that are integral to the treatment of the object.

Grants will support in-state transportation costs for the objects and/or the conservators, and the cost of insurance for the work(s) to be treated.

What We Do Not Fund
Grants will not support staff salaries. Grants will not support out-of-state transportation, or the cost of obtaining the treatment estimate for this proposal. Grants will not support conservation of archival collections. Funds are not available for preventive care, such as rehousing or reformatting of objects, purchase of storage furniture, monitoring or upgrading of environmental systems.

Application Checklist
Please submit 8 sets of the following, collated in this order:
1.  Application Cover Sheet (1 with original signature)
2.  Narrative Project Description (maximum 3 pages)
3.  Conservator's Condition Report
4.  Conservator's Treatment Proposal & Cost Estimate
5.  Conservator's Resume (maximum 2 pages) and Letter of Commitment, acknowledging AIC 
        Code of Ethics, Guidelines and Commentaries 
7.  Project Budget
8.  Visual Support Material: Submit one original set of photographs and 7 photocopied sets which must include at least one overall and one detail image of each object proposed for treatment. Images should show the condition problems of the object(s), and each must be labeled to identify the object, the grant year (2012), and the title or accession number of the object on the back of the image.  Color photographs or digital color prints should be submitted on 8.5" x 11" pages, appropriately identified. Images cannot be returned.

Conservator Selection
Greater Hudson cannot recommend specific conservators for your project; however, we encourage you to read About Selecting a Conservator. You are also encouraged to contact us by
e-mail:director@greaterhudson.org, or phone 914.592.6726 for further assistance, resources,
and application clarification.

Extensive information on collections conservation and preservation, help in locating appropriate conservators, and assistance in obtaining conservation treatment estimates are also available through these agencies:

Regional Alliance for Preservation– RAP
A nationwide cooperative whose members serve cultural institutions and the public: www.PreserveCollections.org.

RAP’s east-coast members include:
Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts - Philadelphia, PA.
www.ccaha.org;  e-mail: ccaha@ccaha.org.

National Park Service – Division of Conservation Harpers Ferry, WVA.
www.nps.gov; e-mail: jane_merritt@nps.gov

Peebles Island Resource Center – PIRC Waterford, NY NYS Bureau of Historic Sites/ NYSOPRHP www.nysparks.com; e-mail: john.lovell@oprhp.state.ny.us

Northeast Document Conservation Center – Andover, MA.
tel: 978-470-1010; www.nedcc.org; e-mail: dconn@nedcc.org

The Textile Conservation Workshop – South Salem, NY.
tel: 914-76-5805; www.PreserveCollections.org; e-mail: textile@bestweb.net

Williamstown Art Conservation Center – WACC Williamstown, MA.
tel: 413-458-5741; www.williamstownart.org; e-mail: wacc@williamstownart.org
 
Heritage Preservation / CAP Program Conservation Assessment Program (CAP) www.heritagepreservation.org; e-mail: info@heritagepreservation.org

Image Permanence Institute – IPI Rochester Institute of Technology;
www.rit.edu/ipi ; e-mail: ipi@rit.edu