Greater Hudson Heritage Network awards $89,386 in Statewide
Conservation Treatment Grants for 2013
Conservation Treatment Grants for 2013
Greater Hudson Heritage Network is awarding $89,386 in conservation treatment grants to 18 organizations, located in 11 counties of New York, in association with the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), a state agency.
From New York City 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 States' museums, historical, and cultural organizations of all sizes. From Lockport to Long Island, 2013 grants will support conservation needs of the many types of artifacts typically found in art and history museums in this region, including silk quilts, campaign signs, engravings, textiles, jewelry cabinet pedestal, murals, period clothing, needlework, paintings and frames, sculpture, works on paper, decorative arts, and a broadside. 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 2013's grants, treatment will be provided by 37 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 53 grant applications were received at Greater Hudson from institutions from 25 counties of New York State, requesting an aggregate of
$299,733 in grant support. In all, requests were made for the treatment of 141 objects of which 18 awards totaling $89,386 were recommended by a peer panel of conservators, curators, and museum professionals. Of the 18 institutions that received funding 13 received full funding, 5 received partial funding. 2013 Conservation Treatment Grant awards range from $901 to $7,500.
Seventeen of the applicants were applying to the Conservation Treatment Grant program for the first time. Of these 53 applicant institutions, twenty-four had budgets under $300,000, twelve had budgets over $300,000 but below $1 million, and seventeen organizations had general operating budgets over $1 million. Organizational operating budgets of 2013's grant recipients span a stunning range from $5,000 to $21.8 million.
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 53 grant applications were received at Greater Hudson from institutions from 25 counties of New York State, requesting an aggregate of
$299,733 in grant support. In all, requests were made for the treatment of 141 objects of which 18 awards totaling $89,386 were recommended by a peer panel of conservators, curators, and museum professionals. Of the 18 institutions that received funding 13 received full funding, 5 received partial funding. 2013 Conservation Treatment Grant awards range from $901 to $7,500.
Seventeen of the applicants were applying to the Conservation Treatment Grant program for the first time. Of these 53 applicant institutions, twenty-four had budgets under $300,000, twelve had budgets over $300,000 but below $1 million, and seventeen organizations had general operating budgets over $1 million. Organizational operating budgets of 2013's grant recipients span a stunning range from $5,000 to $21.8 million.
2013 New York State Conservation Treatment Grant Recipients
American Folk Art Museum (New York County)
$901.56 for the conservation treatment of two silk show quilts; work to be done by conservator Gina Bianco.
Buffalo Transportation/Pierce-Arrow Museum (Erie County)
$1,751.00 for the conservation treatment of poster, 'Pierce Cycles 'Tried and True' ; work to be done by conservator Laura Schell from Westlake Conservators.
FASNY Museum of Firefighting (Columbia County)
$7,500.00 for the conservation of Newsham hand pumper; work to be done by conservator Marc Williams from American Conservation Consortium, Ltd.
George Eastman House (Monroe County)
$3,850.00 for the conservation of oil on canvas, "Portrait of Maria Kilbourn Eastman" by Philip DeLaszlo; work to be done by conservator Tracy Dulniak from Great Lakes Art Conservation.
Historical Society of Newburgh Bay and the Highlands (Orange County)
$7,500.00 for the conservation of oil on canvas, 'In the Catskills' by Asher Durand; work to be done by conservators John Vitagliano and Nadia Ghannam from Fine Art Conservation.
Howland Stone Store Museum (Cayuga County)
$7,439.00 for the conservation of textile Women's Suffrage Campaign Sign; work to be done by Gwen Spicer of Spicer Art Conservation.
Irvington Historical Society (Westchester County)
$7,500.00 for the conservation of pastel 'Portrait of Mrs. Mary Bryan Stone' and frame; work to be done by conservators Ann Baldwin (pastel) and Eugenie Milroy (frame).
Locust Grove Estate and Locust Lawn Farm (Dutchess County)
$6,000.00 for the conservation of oil on canvas, "Storm over Grand Manin" by William Trost Richards; work to be done by conservator Paul Himmelstein from Applebaum and Himmelstein.
Merchant's House Museum (New York County)
$7,500.00 for the conservation of engraving, 'Washington and His Generals' by Alexander Hay Ritchie and frame; work to be done by conservators Caroline Rieger (engraving) and I Joseph Chiarello (frame).
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute (Oneida County)
$7,500.00 for the conservation of sculpture, 'Three Arches' by Alexander Calder; work to be done by conservator Helene Gillette-Woodard from Williamstown Art Conservation Center.
Museum of the City of New York (New York County)
$2,500.00 to go towards the conservation of jewelry cabinet pedestal; work to be done by conservator Olaf Unsoeld from Fine Wood Conservation.
National Soaring Museum (Chemung County)
$4,570.00 for the conservation of oil on canvas mural 'Mystery Mural' by Welty & Dizinno; work to be done by conservator Klara Zold from Zold Art
Conservation.
New Castle Historical Society (Westchester County)
$1,834.44 to go towards the conservation of a selection of watercolors; work to be done by conservator Nelly Balloffet from Paper Star Associates.
New York City Fire Museum (New York)
$4,950.00 for the conservation of a Fireman's decorative cape; work to be done by conservator Paul Himmelstein from Applebaum and Himmelstein.
Pound Ridge Historical Society (Westchester County)
$3,790.00 for the conservation of textile Waterbury Family Sampler; work to be done by conservator Rebecca Johnson-Dibb from the Textile Conservation Workshop.
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art (Ulster County)
$4,100.00 for the conservation of oil on board painting 'Keene Valley, Adirondacks', by George Inness and gilded frame; work to be done by conservators Marie Bruno from Arte Artigianato Restauro (painting) and conservator Janine Lambers from Lambers, Inc (frame).
Wappingers Historical Society (Dutchess)
$3,200.00 for the conservation of work on paper Minstrel Broadside ; work to be done by conservator Mary Kaldany from the Textile Conservation Workshop.
American Folk Art Museum (New York County)
$901.56 for the conservation treatment of two silk show quilts; work to be done by conservator Gina Bianco.
Buffalo Transportation/Pierce-Arrow Museum (Erie County)
$1,751.00 for the conservation treatment of poster, 'Pierce Cycles 'Tried and True' ; work to be done by conservator Laura Schell from Westlake Conservators.
FASNY Museum of Firefighting (Columbia County)
$7,500.00 for the conservation of Newsham hand pumper; work to be done by conservator Marc Williams from American Conservation Consortium, Ltd.
George Eastman House (Monroe County)
$3,850.00 for the conservation of oil on canvas, "Portrait of Maria Kilbourn Eastman" by Philip DeLaszlo; work to be done by conservator Tracy Dulniak from Great Lakes Art Conservation.
Historical Society of Newburgh Bay and the Highlands (Orange County)
$7,500.00 for the conservation of oil on canvas, 'In the Catskills' by Asher Durand; work to be done by conservators John Vitagliano and Nadia Ghannam from Fine Art Conservation.
Howland Stone Store Museum (Cayuga County)
$7,439.00 for the conservation of textile Women's Suffrage Campaign Sign; work to be done by Gwen Spicer of Spicer Art Conservation.
Irvington Historical Society (Westchester County)
$7,500.00 for the conservation of pastel 'Portrait of Mrs. Mary Bryan Stone' and frame; work to be done by conservators Ann Baldwin (pastel) and Eugenie Milroy (frame).
Locust Grove Estate and Locust Lawn Farm (Dutchess County)
$6,000.00 for the conservation of oil on canvas, "Storm over Grand Manin" by William Trost Richards; work to be done by conservator Paul Himmelstein from Applebaum and Himmelstein.
Merchant's House Museum (New York County)
$7,500.00 for the conservation of engraving, 'Washington and His Generals' by Alexander Hay Ritchie and frame; work to be done by conservators Caroline Rieger (engraving) and I Joseph Chiarello (frame).
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute (Oneida County)
$7,500.00 for the conservation of sculpture, 'Three Arches' by Alexander Calder; work to be done by conservator Helene Gillette-Woodard from Williamstown Art Conservation Center.
Museum of the City of New York (New York County)
$2,500.00 to go towards the conservation of jewelry cabinet pedestal; work to be done by conservator Olaf Unsoeld from Fine Wood Conservation.
National Soaring Museum (Chemung County)
$4,570.00 for the conservation of oil on canvas mural 'Mystery Mural' by Welty & Dizinno; work to be done by conservator Klara Zold from Zold Art
Conservation.
New Castle Historical Society (Westchester County)
$1,834.44 to go towards the conservation of a selection of watercolors; work to be done by conservator Nelly Balloffet from Paper Star Associates.
New York City Fire Museum (New York)
$4,950.00 for the conservation of a Fireman's decorative cape; work to be done by conservator Paul Himmelstein from Applebaum and Himmelstein.
Pound Ridge Historical Society (Westchester County)
$3,790.00 for the conservation of textile Waterbury Family Sampler; work to be done by conservator Rebecca Johnson-Dibb from the Textile Conservation Workshop.
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art (Ulster County)
$4,100.00 for the conservation of oil on board painting 'Keene Valley, Adirondacks', by George Inness and gilded frame; work to be done by conservators Marie Bruno from Arte Artigianato Restauro (painting) and conservator Janine Lambers from Lambers, Inc (frame).
Wappingers Historical Society (Dutchess)
$3,200.00 for the conservation of work on paper Minstrel Broadside ; work to be done by conservator Mary Kaldany from the Textile Conservation Workshop.