Whilst recognising the ongoing challenging circumstances of 2021, we want to focus our 2022 Annual General Meeting on the theme of Training.
This years event will be in a hybrid format.
Option 1: (This option) Join us on the day at Lambeth Palace Library for live and recorded talks, as well as a tour of the new conservation studio. Tea/Coffee and Lunch included.
Maximum number of people 35
Social distancing will be in effect and a negative LF test is recommended the morning before attending.
Option 2: Live stream the event via Zoom. To purchase this option go HERE
Post Conference Networking Drinks at a location TBC All are Welcome!
Programme
10:00
Introductions/Welcome
10:10 - 10:25
Volunteer engagement and emergency preparedness in UK museums, Eve Andreski
10:30-10:45
When make do and mend and Microsoft Teams collide: my experience of delivering lockdown training, Gwen Thomas
10:50-11:05
Saving the day…..virtually, Meagen Smith
11:05-11:15
Questions
11:15-11:30
Tea Break
11:30-11:45
Online Environmental Monitoring Training at the British Museum, Alice Facer
11:50-12:05
Adapting to the new normal; Migration of Hazards in Objects Training Online in Response to Covid-19, Letty Steer and Larry Carr
12:10-12:25
Zooming In – making virtual training the best way to learn, Hilary Jarvis
12:25-12:35
Questions
12:35-12:50
AGM
12:50-13:35
Lunch
13:35-13:50
Cultural Manager Instruction: a Reality in Distance Learning in the Brazilian Army, Jessica Tarine
13:55-14:10
Pulling Back the Curtain; My Journey to becoming and ACR, Aimee Sims
14:15-14:30
Graduate Online Training, Louise Davidson
14:30-14:40
Questions
14:40-14:50
Closing Remarks
14:50-15:15
Break
15:15-16:15
Lambeth Palace Library Conservation Studio Tour
16:30-18:30
Post Conference Drinks
After event drinks are going to be at the Camel and Artichoke, 121 Lower Marsh Road, SE1 7AE - all are welcome!
Speakers
Jessica Tarine
Professor at the Institute of Art Sciences of the Federal University of Pará, at the School of Museology. PhD in Geology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Holds a Master's in Preservation of Scientific Collections from the Museum of Astronomy and Related Sciences and graduated in Museology at the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro. She has worked for the Brazilian Army as museologist for the past three years and has experience in the field of Museology mainly on the following topics: museum management, collection preservation, curatorship of scientific collections, exhibition assembly and maintenance.
Eve Andreski
I am a recent graduate from Cardiff University, where I studied an MSc in Care of Collections. My undergraduate degree was in Archaeology, and my particular interest is the relationship between communities and collections. I am a long-time volunteer in the heritage sector. I have a passion for volunteering and am a staunch advocate for volunteers in the heritage sector.
Aimee Sims
Aimee graduated with an MA in Conservation from Queen’s University, Canada in 2014. She gained experience interning at the Birmingham Museums Trust and Historic Royal Palaces (HRP), moving from treatment conservation to preventive conservation.
Over the following years she worked for the National Trust at Claydon House, HRP working across Hampton Court Palace, Kew Gardens, Kensington Palace and The Tower of London and Eton College. After gaining Icon Accreditation in 2019, she began work as the Heritage and Collections Conservation Manager of the Palace of Westminster, Restoration and Renewal Programme.
Alice Facer
A Preventive Conservator in a part of a specialist preventive conservation team at the British Museum, I have always been eager to share and spark interest in collections care. Central to my role is providing training and insight into the preservation of collections, specifically on the complex radio-telemetric system of environmental monitoring. Previously, I have held roles in historic house museums with the National Trust and English Heritage. I have always been interested in the wider societal and everchanging role of museums and am excited for the future of how cultural heritage, and specifically conservation, is involved in social and political commentary.
Letty Steer and Larry Carr
Letitia Steer is an ICON Accredited Collection Care Conservator who works at the Museum of London. Larry Carr has over a decade of experience in the museums sector, including many years of delivering high-quality health and safety training to museum professionals and volunteers, plus, interns, students, and researchers. He is regarded by many museum professionals as one of the UK’s authorities in the subject of health hazards found in object collections.
Gwen Thomas
Gwen trained at Cardiff University before spending 10 years working for the National Trust in England in collection management and care roles. She then worked as a Collections Care Conservator with the Science Museum. In 2017 she relocated to Scotland to take up the post of Collections Care Officer for City of Edinburgh Council’s Museums & Galleries. She manages the preventive conservation programme across 8 sites and advises on the care of the 200+ monuments in the care of the council. She has been Chair of the Icon Scotland Group since 2020.
Meagen Smith
Meagen Smith is a Library and Archive Conservator at Lambeth Palace Library. Prior to this recent role she was Collection Care Conservator at the London Library. She prepares internal displays and external loans, provides digitisation support and training. More widely, she develops and delivers specialist book and paper conservation programmes and preservation activities for libraries and archives. A Camberwell College MA graduate in Archive Conservation, specialising in books, Meagen’s conservation experience includes freelance and project work at UK Parliament, The National Archives, Royal Institution, Birmingham Museums Trust and University College London Special Collections. In her spare time, Meagen is on the ICON Care of Collections committee and the steering group for the International Network for the Conservation of Contemporary Art (INCCA) and Secretary for the London and Southeast region of the Society of Bookbinders. You can see her social media musings @AmazingMeagen
Hilary Jarvis
Hilary Jarvis is Assistant National Conservator for the National Trust and an Icon Pathway member. After 15 years in The City, she joined the Trust in 2018, having spent two years on its Icon Preventive Conservation programme. Hilary leads on IPM and also advises property teams on day-to-day preventive conservation and collections care, as well as the planning of both care and conservation treatments. She also supports the National and Regional conservator teams. She has led (and participated in) a range of Collections Care and IPM training sessions and is part of a Working Group currently reviewing collections-care training at the Trust.
Louise Davidson
Louise is a objects conservator who graduated from City and Guilds of London art school in July 2021 having completed a BA in conservation studies specialising in wood, stone and decorative surfaces. She is also trustee of Icon. She previously has completed a Fine art degree in Canterbury and is currently involved in an Icon yearlong furniture internship which is hosted by Bainbridge Conservation Ltd.