GHHN awards $101, 503 statewide in Conservation Treatment Grants for 2011
Greater Hudson Heritage Network is awarding $101,503 in conservation treatment grants to 24 organizations, located in 19 counties of New York, in association with the Museum Program of the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), a state agency.
From the Bronx to Buffalo, these funds will provide treatment by professional conservators to aid in stabilizing, preserving, and making accessible to the public an array of unique objects in collections of New York's museums, historical, and cultural organizations of all sizes.
From Lockport to Long Island, 2011 grants will support conservation needs of the many types of artifacts typically found in art and history museums in this region, including textiles; uniforms; needlework; flags; paintings, including portraiture and landscapes; frames; sculpture; works on paper; decorative arts; religious items; maps ;books; ethnographic material; carriages; antiquities; political campaign items; dioramas; and children's games.
Grants are awarded for prioritized, urgently needed conservation of objects that, once treated, will impact public interpretive programs, exhibitions and education. Non-profit organizations with stewardship responsibility for cultural collections, (but without in-house conservation staff) were eligible applicants; state or federally owned collections are ineligible for support. Grant funding can treat paintings, works on paper, textiles, furniture, sculpture, ethnographic, historical and decorative objects, and may also support accompanying professional treatment of frames, supports, stands and mounts if integral to the final public presentation of the object, after conservation.
Greater Hudson Heritage Network strives to provide support for conservation treatments that are executed on the highest professional level. The field of conservation is continually changing, with pioneering research and dissemination of findings on innovative materials and techniques. Although there are many paths into the field of conservation, we acknowledge practitioners who have demonstrated high levels of proficiency and advanced knowledge, adherence to the ethics and standards of the American Institute of Conservation (AIC), and are recognized for their expertise in the museum field. In 2010's grants, treatment will be provided by 20 individual conservators.
These grants lead to public impact outcomes beyond the actual conservation of museum objects, including new interest in the state's incredibly varied collections, and increased public awareness of the museum's role as steward, and has proven a spark to further institutional, strategic, financial and long-range conservation planning. Beyond these outcomes, grant recipients report that Conservation Treatment funding prompts greater use of collections (for exhibition, web content and loan), enhanced interpretive capability, and expanded opportunities to educate the public about art, history, humanities, the science of conservation, and museum work, itself.
This year 52 grant applications were received at Greater Hudson from institutions in 20 counties of New York State, requesting an aggregate of $280,512.00 in grant support. 24 awards totaling $101,503 were recommended by a peer panel of conservators, curators and museum professionals. Of the 24 institutions that received funding 15 received full funding, 9 received partial funding. 2011 Conservation Treatment Grant awards range from $1,430 to $7,500.
Seventeen of the applicants were applying to the Conservation Treatment Grant program for the first time. Of these 52 institutions, twenty-seven had budgets under $300,000, fifteen had budgets over $300,000 but below $1 million and ten organizations had general operating budgets over $1 million. Organizational operating budgets of 2011's grant recipients span a stunning range from $2,000 to $15.4 million.
From the Bronx to Buffalo, these funds will provide treatment by professional conservators to aid in stabilizing, preserving, and making accessible to the public an array of unique objects in collections of New York's museums, historical, and cultural organizations of all sizes.
From Lockport to Long Island, 2011 grants will support conservation needs of the many types of artifacts typically found in art and history museums in this region, including textiles; uniforms; needlework; flags; paintings, including portraiture and landscapes; frames; sculpture; works on paper; decorative arts; religious items; maps ;books; ethnographic material; carriages; antiquities; political campaign items; dioramas; and children's games.
Grants are awarded for prioritized, urgently needed conservation of objects that, once treated, will impact public interpretive programs, exhibitions and education. Non-profit organizations with stewardship responsibility for cultural collections, (but without in-house conservation staff) were eligible applicants; state or federally owned collections are ineligible for support. Grant funding can treat paintings, works on paper, textiles, furniture, sculpture, ethnographic, historical and decorative objects, and may also support accompanying professional treatment of frames, supports, stands and mounts if integral to the final public presentation of the object, after conservation.
Greater Hudson Heritage Network strives to provide support for conservation treatments that are executed on the highest professional level. The field of conservation is continually changing, with pioneering research and dissemination of findings on innovative materials and techniques. Although there are many paths into the field of conservation, we acknowledge practitioners who have demonstrated high levels of proficiency and advanced knowledge, adherence to the ethics and standards of the American Institute of Conservation (AIC), and are recognized for their expertise in the museum field. In 2010's grants, treatment will be provided by 20 individual conservators.
These grants lead to public impact outcomes beyond the actual conservation of museum objects, including new interest in the state's incredibly varied collections, and increased public awareness of the museum's role as steward, and has proven a spark to further institutional, strategic, financial and long-range conservation planning. Beyond these outcomes, grant recipients report that Conservation Treatment funding prompts greater use of collections (for exhibition, web content and loan), enhanced interpretive capability, and expanded opportunities to educate the public about art, history, humanities, the science of conservation, and museum work, itself.
This year 52 grant applications were received at Greater Hudson from institutions in 20 counties of New York State, requesting an aggregate of $280,512.00 in grant support. 24 awards totaling $101,503 were recommended by a peer panel of conservators, curators and museum professionals. Of the 24 institutions that received funding 15 received full funding, 9 received partial funding. 2011 Conservation Treatment Grant awards range from $1,430 to $7,500.
Seventeen of the applicants were applying to the Conservation Treatment Grant program for the first time. Of these 52 institutions, twenty-seven had budgets under $300,000, fifteen had budgets over $300,000 but below $1 million and ten organizations had general operating budgets over $1 million. Organizational operating budgets of 2011's grant recipients span a stunning range from $2,000 to $15.4 million.
2011 New York State Conservation Treatment Grant Recipients
Albany Institute of History & Art, Albany, (Albany County)
$3950 for conservation treatment of Roman period dog mummy and Fragment Egyptian Stele; work to be done by conservators Helene Gillette-Woodward, Allison McCloskey, and Lauren LaFlam from the Williamstown Art Conservation Center, Inc.
Columbia County Historical Society, Kinderhook, (Columbia County)
$4050 for the conservation treatment of 1860 campaign transparency; work done by conservator Gwen Spicer, Spicer Art Conservation, LLC.
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, (Onondaga County)
$3040 for conservation treatment of painting Café Interior by artist John C. Johansen; work to be done by conservator Thomas Branchick from the Williamstown Art Conservation Center, Inc.
FASNY Museum of Firefighting, Hudson, (Columbia County)
$5428 for the conservation of the painting Portrait of Chief Engineer Harry Howard by artist Joseph H. Johnson; work to be done by conservator Thomas Branchick from the Williamstown Art Conservation Center, Inc.
Fred J. Johnson Museum/Friends of Historic Kingston, Kingston,(Ulster County)
$3550 for silk work picture of William III of Orange and frame; work to be done by textile conservator Mary Kaldany of the Textile Conservation Workshop and frame conservator Jim Brewster from Presentations.
H. Lee White Marine Museum, Oswego, (Oswego County)
$2339 for the conservation of oil on canvas painting Unk - "Fascination" by artist James Gale Tyler; work to be done by painting conservators Susan Blakney, John Sutton, Margaret Sutton from West Lake Conservators, LTD.
Huntington Historical Society, Huntington, (Suffolk County)
$2195 for the conservation of 1873 Long Island watercolor painting and frame by artist Edward Lange; work to be done by paper conservators Walter Neuman and Bryan Allen Owen from the North East Document Conservation Center.
LeRoy Historical Society, LeRoy, (Genesee County)
$5590 for the conservation treatment of 19th c. rococo gilt frame; work to be done by conservator John Sutton from West Lake Conservators, LTD.
Livingston County Historical Society, Geneseo (Livingston County)
$7500 for the conservation treatment of the running gear of Wadsworth Coach; work to be done by objects conservator B.R. Howard & Associates, Inc.
Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York (New York County)
$1750 for the conservation treatment of circumcision certificate; work to be done by conservator paper conservator, Caroline Reiger, Reiger Art Conservation, LLC.
New York State Historical Association, Cooperstown (Otsego County)
$6175 for the conservation treatment of oil on canvas painting and frame of the Artist as a Young Man by artist William Matthew Prior and oil on canvas painting and frame of William Miller by artist William Matthew Prior; work to be done by paintings conservators John Sutton, Margaret Sutton, and Chiara Kuhns from West Lake Conservators, LTD.
Niagara County Historical Society, Lockport, (Niagara County)
$7200 for the conservation treatment of Diorama of John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge by artist Grayton H. Swan; work to be done by conservators Tracy Dulniak, Dena Cirpili from Great Lakes Art Conservation of NY, LLC.
Oneida Community Mansion House, Oneida, (Madison County)
$2152 for the conservation treatment of steel engraving of the First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation by artist A.H. Ritchie; work to be done by conservator Dan Cochrane from West Lake Conservators, LTD.
Ossining Historical Society, Ossining, (Westchester County)
$3380 for the conservation treatment of oil on canvas painting Still Life with Peaches by artist Harriet Agate (attributed); work to be done by paintings conservator Alexander Katlan, Alexander Katlan Conservator, Inc.
Rennselaer County Historical Society, Troy (Rennselaer County)
$4400 for the conservation treatment of wool, linen, cotton, and silver coatee; work to be done by textile conservator Gwen Spicer, Spicer Art Conservation, LLC.
Sagtikos Manor Historical Society, Bay Shore, (Suffolk County)
$5000 for the conservation Treatment of watercolor painting of Burning of Charlestown by artist David Gardiner; work to be done by paper conservator Jonathan Derow, JD Conservation, Inc.
Slate Valley Museum, Granville, (Washington County)
$2460 for the conservation treatment of 1890 lithograph of Middle Granville, NY & frame; 1886 lithograph of Granveille, NY & frame; 1873 lithograph of Mettowee Valley from Slate Hill Granville, NY & reframe; work to be done by paper conservator Carolyn Frisa, of Works on Paper.
Southold Historical Society, Southold, (Suffolk County)
$5280 for the conservation treatment of oil panting on canvas of Esther T.A. Wells and frame and oil on canvas painting of Joseph Albert Wells and frame; work to be done by paintings conservator Rhonda Feinman, Sherman Art Conservation.
Southworth Library Association, Dryden, (Tompkins County)
$1430 for the conservation treatment of the photograph Portrait of John W. Dwight; work to be done by conservator Dan Cochrane from West Lake Conservators, LTD.
Staten Island Museum Institute of Arts & Sciences, Staten Island, (Richmond County)
$4329 for the conservation treatment of a selection of prints from their collection of 1800 images; work to be done by paper conservator, Caroline Reiger, Reiger Art Conservation, LLC.
Susan B. Anthony House, Rochester, (Monroe County)
$3400 for the conservation treatment of oil on canvas painting of Portrait of Rhoda DeGarmo and frame; work to be done by painting conservator Tracy Dulniak of Great Lakes Art Conservation of NY, LLC.
The Strong, Rochester, Rochester, (Monroe County)
$7500 for the conservation treatment of the three Monopoly Set; work to be done by conservators Susan Blakney and Dan Cochrane from West Lake Conservators, LTD.
Walworth Historical Society, Walworth, (Wayne County)
$1905 for the conservation treatment of oil on canvas painting of Aggie (the cow) by artist Clara Billings Yoemans; work to be done by paintings conservator John Sutton from West Lake Conservators, LTD.
Yager Museum of Art & Culture, Oneonta, (Otsego County)
$7500 for the conservation treatment of the 1505 oil transferred from panel to masonite painting of Madonna of the Meadow from the workshop of Giovanni Bellini; work to be done by paintings conservator Sandra Webber from Williamstown Art Conservation Center, Inc.
$3950 for conservation treatment of Roman period dog mummy and Fragment Egyptian Stele; work to be done by conservators Helene Gillette-Woodward, Allison McCloskey, and Lauren LaFlam from the Williamstown Art Conservation Center, Inc.
Columbia County Historical Society, Kinderhook, (Columbia County)
$4050 for the conservation treatment of 1860 campaign transparency; work done by conservator Gwen Spicer, Spicer Art Conservation, LLC.
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, (Onondaga County)
$3040 for conservation treatment of painting Café Interior by artist John C. Johansen; work to be done by conservator Thomas Branchick from the Williamstown Art Conservation Center, Inc.
FASNY Museum of Firefighting, Hudson, (Columbia County)
$5428 for the conservation of the painting Portrait of Chief Engineer Harry Howard by artist Joseph H. Johnson; work to be done by conservator Thomas Branchick from the Williamstown Art Conservation Center, Inc.
Fred J. Johnson Museum/Friends of Historic Kingston, Kingston,(Ulster County)
$3550 for silk work picture of William III of Orange and frame; work to be done by textile conservator Mary Kaldany of the Textile Conservation Workshop and frame conservator Jim Brewster from Presentations.
H. Lee White Marine Museum, Oswego, (Oswego County)
$2339 for the conservation of oil on canvas painting Unk - "Fascination" by artist James Gale Tyler; work to be done by painting conservators Susan Blakney, John Sutton, Margaret Sutton from West Lake Conservators, LTD.
Huntington Historical Society, Huntington, (Suffolk County)
$2195 for the conservation of 1873 Long Island watercolor painting and frame by artist Edward Lange; work to be done by paper conservators Walter Neuman and Bryan Allen Owen from the North East Document Conservation Center.
LeRoy Historical Society, LeRoy, (Genesee County)
$5590 for the conservation treatment of 19th c. rococo gilt frame; work to be done by conservator John Sutton from West Lake Conservators, LTD.
Livingston County Historical Society, Geneseo (Livingston County)
$7500 for the conservation treatment of the running gear of Wadsworth Coach; work to be done by objects conservator B.R. Howard & Associates, Inc.
Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York (New York County)
$1750 for the conservation treatment of circumcision certificate; work to be done by conservator paper conservator, Caroline Reiger, Reiger Art Conservation, LLC.
New York State Historical Association, Cooperstown (Otsego County)
$6175 for the conservation treatment of oil on canvas painting and frame of the Artist as a Young Man by artist William Matthew Prior and oil on canvas painting and frame of William Miller by artist William Matthew Prior; work to be done by paintings conservators John Sutton, Margaret Sutton, and Chiara Kuhns from West Lake Conservators, LTD.
Niagara County Historical Society, Lockport, (Niagara County)
$7200 for the conservation treatment of Diorama of John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge by artist Grayton H. Swan; work to be done by conservators Tracy Dulniak, Dena Cirpili from Great Lakes Art Conservation of NY, LLC.
Oneida Community Mansion House, Oneida, (Madison County)
$2152 for the conservation treatment of steel engraving of the First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation by artist A.H. Ritchie; work to be done by conservator Dan Cochrane from West Lake Conservators, LTD.
Ossining Historical Society, Ossining, (Westchester County)
$3380 for the conservation treatment of oil on canvas painting Still Life with Peaches by artist Harriet Agate (attributed); work to be done by paintings conservator Alexander Katlan, Alexander Katlan Conservator, Inc.
Rennselaer County Historical Society, Troy (Rennselaer County)
$4400 for the conservation treatment of wool, linen, cotton, and silver coatee; work to be done by textile conservator Gwen Spicer, Spicer Art Conservation, LLC.
Sagtikos Manor Historical Society, Bay Shore, (Suffolk County)
$5000 for the conservation Treatment of watercolor painting of Burning of Charlestown by artist David Gardiner; work to be done by paper conservator Jonathan Derow, JD Conservation, Inc.
Slate Valley Museum, Granville, (Washington County)
$2460 for the conservation treatment of 1890 lithograph of Middle Granville, NY & frame; 1886 lithograph of Granveille, NY & frame; 1873 lithograph of Mettowee Valley from Slate Hill Granville, NY & reframe; work to be done by paper conservator Carolyn Frisa, of Works on Paper.
Southold Historical Society, Southold, (Suffolk County)
$5280 for the conservation treatment of oil panting on canvas of Esther T.A. Wells and frame and oil on canvas painting of Joseph Albert Wells and frame; work to be done by paintings conservator Rhonda Feinman, Sherman Art Conservation.
Southworth Library Association, Dryden, (Tompkins County)
$1430 for the conservation treatment of the photograph Portrait of John W. Dwight; work to be done by conservator Dan Cochrane from West Lake Conservators, LTD.
Staten Island Museum Institute of Arts & Sciences, Staten Island, (Richmond County)
$4329 for the conservation treatment of a selection of prints from their collection of 1800 images; work to be done by paper conservator, Caroline Reiger, Reiger Art Conservation, LLC.
Susan B. Anthony House, Rochester, (Monroe County)
$3400 for the conservation treatment of oil on canvas painting of Portrait of Rhoda DeGarmo and frame; work to be done by painting conservator Tracy Dulniak of Great Lakes Art Conservation of NY, LLC.
The Strong, Rochester, Rochester, (Monroe County)
$7500 for the conservation treatment of the three Monopoly Set; work to be done by conservators Susan Blakney and Dan Cochrane from West Lake Conservators, LTD.
Walworth Historical Society, Walworth, (Wayne County)
$1905 for the conservation treatment of oil on canvas painting of Aggie (the cow) by artist Clara Billings Yoemans; work to be done by paintings conservator John Sutton from West Lake Conservators, LTD.
Yager Museum of Art & Culture, Oneonta, (Otsego County)
$7500 for the conservation treatment of the 1505 oil transferred from panel to masonite painting of Madonna of the Meadow from the workshop of Giovanni Bellini; work to be done by paintings conservator Sandra Webber from Williamstown Art Conservation Center, Inc.