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Training & Classes: List of Classes by Instructor
Helen Alten, is the Director of Northern States Conservation Center and its chief Objects Conservator. For nearly 30 years she has been involved in objects conservation, starting as a pre-program intern at the Oriental Institute in Chicago and the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania. She completed a degree in Archaeological Conservation and Materials Science from the Institute of Archaeology at the University of London in England. She has built and run conservation laboratories in Bulgaria, Montana, Greece, Alaska and Minnesota. She has a broad understanding of three-dimensional materials and their deterioration, wrote and edited the quarterly Collections Caretaker, maintains the popular www.collectioncare.org web site, lectures throughout the United States on collection care topics, was instrumental in developing a state-wide protocol for disaster response in small Minnesota museums, has written, received and reviewed grants for NEH and IMLS, worked with local foundations funding one of her pilot programs, and is always in search of the perfect museum mannequin. She has published chapters on conservation and deterioration of archeological glass with the Materials Research Society and the York Archaeological Trust, four chapters on different mannequin construction techniques in Museum Mannequins: A Guide for Creating the Perfect Fit (2002), preservation planning, policies, forms and procedures needed for a small museum in The Minnesota Alliance of Local History Museums' Collection Initiative Manual, and is co-editor of the penultimate book on numbering museum collections (still in process) by the Gilcrease Museum in Oklahoma. Helen Alten has been a Field Education Director, Conservator, and staff trainer. She began working with people from small, rural, and tribal museums while as the state conservator for Montana and Alaska. Helen currently conducts conservation treatments and operates a conservation center in Charleston, WV and St. Paul, MN.
MS001: The Problem with Plastics (short course)
Feb 8-12, 2010
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Instructor: Helen Alten
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MS001: The Problem with Plastics (short course)
Aug 16 - Aug 20, 2010
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Instructor: Helen Alten
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MS004: When Collection Numbering Goes Bad (short course)
(Dates TBD)
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Instructor: Helen Alten
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MS008: Buy-In: Getting All of the Staff to Support Preservation (short course)
(Dates TBD)
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Instructor: Helen Alten
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MS104: An Introduction to Collections Preservation
Jan 11 - Feb 5, 2010
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Instructor: Helen Alten
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MS104a: An Introduction to Collections Preservation
Jul 5 - Jul 30, 2010
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Price: $475 [Add to Cart]
Instructor: Helen Alten
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MS201: Storage for Infinity: An Overview of Museum Storage Principles
Apr 26 - May 21, 2010 (Only runs once in 2010)
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Instructor: Helen Alten
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MS202: Museum Storage Facilities and Furniture
Sep 7 - Oct 1, 2010 (Only runs once in 2010)
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Instructor: Helen Alten
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MS203: Museum Storage Techniques
(Dates TBD)
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Instructor: Helen Alten
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MS204: Materials for Storage and Display
Apr 12 - May 7, 2010
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Instructor: Helen Alten
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MS208: Applying Numbers to Collection Objects:
Materials and Methods of Object Numbering
Jan 11 - Feb 5, 2010
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Instructor: Helen Alten
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MS213: Museum Artifacts: How they were made
and how they deteriorate
Feb 15 - Apr 2, 2010
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Instructor: Helen Alten
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MS213a: Museum Artifacts: How they were made
and how they deteriorate
Aug 2 - Sep 10, 2010
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Instructor: Helen Alten
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MS220: Plastics in Museums (free course)
Anticipated opening 2009
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Instructor: Helen Alten
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MS223: Care of Metals
Apr 12 - May 7, 2010
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Instructor: Helen Alten
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MS223: Care of Metals
Jul 5 - Jul 30, 2010
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Instructor: Helen Alten
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MS224: Care of Leather and Skin Materials
Apr 12 - May 7, 2010
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Instructor: Helen Alten
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MS225: Care of Baskets **NEW**
Feb 1 - Feb 26, 2010
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Instructor: Helen Alten
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MS302: Fundraising for Collections Care
Mar 8 - Apr 2, 2010
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Instructor: Helen Alten
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Objects conservator Gretchen Anderson learned her craft at the American Museum of Natural History, the Smithsonian's Conservation Analytical Lab, the Canadian Conservation Institute, Getty Conservation Lab, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Minnesota Historical Society. She established the conservation department at the Science Museum of Minnesota in 1989. She is the co-author of A Holistic Approach to Museum Pest Management, a technical leaflet for the American Association for State and Local History and established a rigorous IPM program for the Science Museum. She was a key member in the planning team that designed and built a new facility for the Science Museum of Minnesota. This endeavor resulted in not only a state of the art exhibition and storage facility, but also a major publication about the experience of building a new museum and creating the correct environments: Moving the Mountain. In 2009 she accepted the position of conservator and head of the conservation section at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh. Ms. Anderson is a member of the American Institute for Conservation and the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections. She lectures and presents workshops on preventive conservation, IPM, cleaning in museums, and practical methods and materials for storage of collections.
Ernest A. Conrad's greatest contribution to the preservation field was the development of environmental guidelines for engineers who work on museums, libraries and archives. For over 20 years, Mr. Conrad has focused on environmental issues. He is president of Landmark Facilities Group, Inc., an engineering firm specializing in environmental systems for museums, libraries, archives and historic facilities. A licensed mechanical engineer in several states, Mr. Conrad holds a bachelor's degree in civil engineering and a master's in environmental engineering from Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Inc. (ASHRAE) publishes standards in the areas of HVAC and refrigeration. Mr. Conrad recently co-authored the ASHRAE Applications Handbook "Chapter 20: Museums, Libraries and Archives." For the first time, there are guidelines specific to our needs in the engineering literature. Mr. Conrad has studied environments and designed special climate control systems throughout the United States for clients as well-known as the National Gallery of Art, Library of Congress, The Frick Collection, Getty Conservation Institute, The Pierpont Morgan Library, National Trust for Historic Preservation, and National Park Service. He has a special interest in house museums and how climate affects structures and collections housed within those structures.
Ann Coppinger runs the conservation department and teaches conservation at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. She has a master's in museum studies specializing in costume and textile conservation from FIT. She is a former NEA master apprentice at the Textile Conservation Workshop. Ms. Coppinger previously worked for 22 years in fashion in New York City. She has degrees in both fashion design and pattern making from FIT.
Craig Deller is the owner of the Deller Conservation Group, Ltd. A member of the American Institute for Conservation since 1982, he became a Professional Associate in 1993. Mr. Deller served seven terms as president of the Chicago Area Conservation Group, and six years as Director of Communications for the American Institute for Conservation (AIC), during which he appeared on the "Antiques Roadshow" on their behalf. He co-authored the current AIC brochure "Caring for Your Furniture." His training includes a BS from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, participation in the Furniture Conservation Training Program at Conservation Analytical Laboratory-Smithsonian, as well as courses with Dr. Walter McCrone and Richard Wolbers. He is currently on the faculty of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, teaching the "Interior Surfaces Conservation Lab" for the Historic Preservation Department. He volunteered for the AASLH "History Emergency Assistance Recovery Team" after hurricane Katrina, along with work at the National Museum of St. Kitts WI, and the Whim Museum on St. Croix USVI.
Karin Hostetter has over thirty years experience with
museum education. With a career that includes natural
history museums, cultural history museums (including first
person interpretation), nature centers, and zoos, Ms.
Hostetter is experienced in interpretive writing, program
and curriculum development, and staff and volunteer
training. As a museum educator, she was Curator of
Education for the Heard Natural Science Museum and Wildlife
Sanctuary (McKinney, TX). Among her award-winning
education curricula are several programs she developed for
the education departments during her five years at the
Heard Museum and her twelve years on staff at the Denver
Zoo. As an interpretive writer, Ms. Hostetter has written
text for exhibits, wayside exhibits, visitor brochures, and
professional magazines. Her skill is in making technical
information understandable and meaningful to visitors.
Karin has worked with volunteers throughout her career,
becoming the first paid volunteer coordinator at the Denver
Zoo. Ms. Hostetter taught the National Association for
Interpretation's two-day volunteer management course for
volunteer coordinators and served on their panel about
volunteer programs. She authored a series of articles for
the National Association for Interpretation's Legacy
magazine, providing guidelines for developing and
maintaining a volunteer organization. Ms. Hostetter now
consults with organizations on structuring and improving
volunteer programs.
Over the years, Ms. Hostetter has been
responsible for small animal exhibits and animal care at
both the Heard Museum and the Denver Zoo. She worked with
wild animal rehabilitation and public education animals,
work that included training volunteer animal handlers.
Karin co-founded the Zoos, Wildlife Parks, and Aquaria
special interest section of the National Association for
Interpretation.
Karin Hostetter is owner of Interpret This,
a consulting company specializing in interpretive writing,
program and curriculum development, and volunteer program
management. When she is not consulting with other museums,
she likes to volunteer and contract teach at them with a
special love for preschool and family programs.
MS108: Fundamentals of Museum Volunteer Programs
Mar 8 - Apr 2, 2010
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Instructor: Karin Hostetter
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MS108: Fundamentals of Museum Volunteer Programs
Sep 7 - Oct 1, 2010
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Instructor: Karin Hostetter
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MS011: Gallery Guides(short course)
Apr 12 - Apr 16, 2010
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Instructor: Karin Hostetter
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MS011: Gallery Guides(short course)
Oct 18 - Oct 22, 2010
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Instructor: Karin Hostetter
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MS012: Keeping Small Animals on Exhibit
(Care and Feeding of Small Animal Exhibits)(short course)
Apr 12 - Apr 16, 2010
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Instructor: Karin Hostetter
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MS012: Keeping Small Animals on Exhibit
(Care and Feeding of Small Animal Exhibits)(short course)
Oct 11 - Oct 15, 2010
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Instructor: Karin Hostetter
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MS235: Scripting the Exhibition
Feb 15 - Mar 12, 2010
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Instructor: Karin Hostetter
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MS235: Scripting the Exhibition
Jul 5 - Jul 30, 2010
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Instructor: Karin Hostetter
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MS236: Education in Museums
Jan 4 - Jan 29, 2010
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Instructor: Karin Hostetter
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MS236: Education in Museums
Aug 2 - Aug 27, 2010
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Instructor: Karin Hostetter
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Diana Komejan graduated from Sir Sandford Fleming College in 1980 with a diploma in Art Conservation Techniques. She has worked as a conservator with Parks Canada at the Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site in Nova Scotia and the Halifax conservation lab, where she worked on archaeological and historic artifacts from across east coast Canada. Diana also interned at the Kelsey Museum of Ancient and Medieval History in Ann Arbor, Mich. and spent 12 years as conservator with the Yukon Government in Whitehorse. In addition to lab treatments, Diana has broad archaeological experience, including the excavation of mammoths and dinosaur tracks. Diana now operates a private conservation business.
Kiersten F. Latham teaches museum management for the Michigan State University MS program as well as museum studies courses in the Bowling Green State University (Ohio) Public History program. Recently, she was the acting coordinator of the museum studies program at the University of Kansas. She has nearly 20 years of experience working in museums including as the curator of collections at the Kansas Cosmosphere & Space Center. Her interests include the meaning of objects, philosophy and history of the museum, and psychology of visitor experiences. She has worked in history, art, anthropology, science and children's museums as an academic and professional.
Stevan P. Layne is the principal consultant and chief executive of Layne Consultants International, a leading provider of cultural property protection advice. Steve is a former police chief, public safety director and museum security director. He is the author of The Cultural Property Protection Manual, and the Business Survival Guide. Steve regularly presents to professional associations and has consulted with more than 400 museums and other institutions. Steve is the founding director of the International Foundation for Cultural Property Protection and responsible for the professional training and certification of more than 1,000 museum professionals.
Sofia Galarza Liu Sofía Galarza Liu is the collection manager and database
project co-manager at the Spencer Museum of Art of the
University of Kansas. Ms. Liu is also an implementation
consultant and educator for Zetcom Information Systems,
Inc.; she provides database administrator and user training
for United States MuseumPlus clients. Ms. Liu's
accomplishments include completing a two-year IMLS grant
funded project to digitize the Spencer Museum of Art's
collections and attending Museum Leaders: the Next
Generation training at the Getty Leadership Institute in
Los Angeles, California. She has a B.F.A in the History of
Art and a Master's degree in Museum Studies from the
University of Kansas.
John E. Simmons runs Museologica, an independent consulting company, and serves as Adjunct Curator of Collections at the Earth and Mineral Sciences Museum and Art Gallery at Pennsylvania State University. He has a B.S. in Systematics and Ecology and a Master's degree in Historical Administration and Museum Studies. Simmons began his professional career as a zoo keeper, then worked as collections manager at the California Academy of Sciences and the Natural History Museum of the University of Kansas, where he also served as Director of the Museum Studies Program until 2007. He received the Superior Voluntary Service Award from the American Association of Museums and the Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Mentoring of Graduate Students from the University of Kansas. Simmons' publications include three books, Herpetological Collecting and Collections Management (2002), Cuidado, Manejo y Conservación de las Colecciones Biológicas (2005, with Yaneth Muñoz-Saba), and Things Great and Small: Collections Management Policies (2006). He consults, teaches, and does field work in the US, Latin America and Asia.
Susan Near is special projects manager at the Montana Historical Society in Helena. Prior positions at the Historical Society include director of museum services (1989-2007), curator of collections (1984-1989), and registrar (1982-1984). She also worked as collections research specialist at the Valley Forge Historical Society in Pennsylvania. She has been curator for more than 20 major exhibitions ranging from western art to decorative arts, and has conducted material culture research covering a broad range of collections. Near co-authored Montana's State Capitol:The People's House, Montana Historical Society Press, 2002. Near has extensive administrative experience especially in grant-writing, heritage tourism, educational outreach, public relations, marketing, planning for new museum construction, and project and event management. She is an accreditation visiting committee member for the American Association of Museums, has conducted peer reviews for the Museums Assessment Program, and has reviewed and served on grants panels for the Institute for Museum and Library Services and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Ms. Near is a graduate of the Museum Studies Program at the University of Delaware and the Getty's Museum Management Institute.
Lin Nelson-Mayson, with over 25 years of museum experience at small and large institutions, is director of the University of Minnesota's Goldstein Museum of Design. Prior to that, she was the director of ExhibitsUSA, a nonprofit exhibition touring organization that annually tours over 30 art and humanities exhibitions across the country. For five years, she was a coordinator or judge for the American Association of Museums' Excellence in Exhibitions Competition. She currently serves on the exhibition committee for the National Sculpture Society. Ms. Nelson-Mayson has extensive experience with the planning, preparation, research and installation of exhibitions. Ms Nelson-Mayson's experience includes teaching museum studies and museology courses. Her particular interest is the needs of small museums.
Her credentials include the following;
- An MFA from The Ohio State University in sculpture and critical writing
- A BFA from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio in painting.
- Work as a curator for the Ross County Historic Society (Chillicothe, Ohio), the Art Museum of South Texas (Corpus Christi), the Columbia Museum of Art (South Carolina), and the Minnesota Museum of American Art.
Peggy Schaller, founded Collections Research for Museums in 1991 to provide cataloging, collection-management training and services. She has worked with a large variety of museums and collections for more than 18 years. Peggy, who lives in Denver, Colorado, has a bachelor's degree in anthropology with minors in art history and geology from the University of Arizona in Tucson. She has a master's degree in anthropology with a minor in museum studies from the University of Colorado in Boulder and is a Certified Institutional Protection Manager II. She provides workshops and project services to museums and historical societies all across the country. The mission of Collections Research for Museums is to inspire museums to improve their professional standards, collections stewardship and service to their constituency through training in, and assistance with, documenting, preserving, protecting and managing their collections.
Terri Schindel, graduated from the Courtauld Art Institute, University of London with a concentration in textile conservation. Since 1988 she has taught collections care and preventive conservation to museum staff. She has assisted museums in writing disaster plans for more than a decade and helped develop national standards for disaster-preparedness materials. Ms. Schindel specializes in collection care and preventive conservation and works regularly with small, rural and tribal museums. She is familiar with the many challenges and lack of resources facing these institutions. Ms. Schindel is committed to maintaining the uniqueness of each museum while ensuring that they serve as a resource for future generations.
William G. (Bill) Tompkins is the national collections coordinator for the Smithsonian Institution. Bill serves as a principal advisor to senior Smithsonian management and staff on collections-management policies, procedures and standards. He develops, implements and interprets Smithsonian collections management standards. This includes reviewing and approving the policies of the Smithsonian's individual museums to make sure collections are maintained according to policy, professional standards and legal obligations. Previously, Bill was assistant director of the Smithsonian's Office of the Registrar. He is also a former collections manager at the National Museum of American History. With nearly thirty years experience in the museum profession, Bill regularly speaks at professional meetings, workshops and university programs.
Jerry Shiner has been providing consultant services for environmental control of museum display and storage applications for almost twenty years. Mr. Shiner has extensive expertise in both active and passive methods of mitigating and controlling humidity, temperature, pollution, and oxygen levels for display and storage enclosures. His experience includes working with architects, engineers, and conservators to design both local and central systems for large museums. As founder of Keepsafe Microclimate Systems he has provided hundreds of active and passive solutions for low oxygen treatment and storage (anoxia), and showcase humidity and temperature control. Mr. Shiner is author of numerous articles on microclimate storage and display. His clients include museums in the US and Europe. When not working on microclimates, Mr. Shiner can bang out a passable version of "Lady of Spain" on the accordion.
Gawain Weaver teaches international workshops on photograph conservation and preservation. He earned his master's degree in art history and conservation from New York University's Institute of Fine Arts and was a fellow at the George Eastman House and Image Permanence Institute for two years. His interest in photograph conservation included studying at Library and Archives Canada, the Amon Carter Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Northeast Document Conservation Center.
Dr. Nancy Odegaard is the Conservator and Head of the
Preservation Division for Arizona State Museum. She is also
a Professor in the Department of Anthropology. Nancy
manages and supervises staff and programs in the
conservation lab, advises on museum environmental issues,
and seeks to promote the preservation of collections
through improved exhibition and storage conditions. Nancy
holds a Ph.D. in Applied Science through the Conservation
and Cultural Heritage Science Studies Department of the
University of Canberra, Australia. She earned her M.A. in
Museum Studies/Anthropology at the George Washington
University with a Certificate in Ethnographic and
Archaeological Conservation from the Smithsonian
Institution. Nancy specializes in the conservation of
archaeological and ethnographic objects including the
examination, analysis, and study of materials and
pre-industrial technologies used to fabricate artifacts.
She is the author of the 2005 publication Old Poisons, New
Problems about pesticides on Native museum objects.
NA255: Dangerous Materials: Chemical Poisons in Native American and Ethnographic Artifacts
Oct 4 - Oct 29, 2010
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Instructor: Nancy Odegaard
Students must be staff at a tribal institution and meet NATHPO qualifications. This course is subsidized by the Institute of Museum and Library Services through a grant awarded to NATHPO.
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Karl Hoerig is director of Nohwike' Bágowa (House of Our
Footprints), the White Mountain Apache Cultural Center and
Museum, in Fort Apache, Arizona. The position requires
multifaceted involvement in the community, a mix of museum
tasks, heritage promotion, cultural heritage resource
protection and management, capacity building, economic
development and enhancing sovereignty. Karl Hoerig has a
PhD in anthropology from the University of Arizona.
NA254: Introduction to Tribal Museum Shop Management
Apr 26 - May 21, 2010
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Instructor: Karl Hoerig
Students must be staff at a tribal institution and meet NATHPO qualifications. This course is subsidized by the Institute of Museum and Library Services through a grant awarded to NATHPO.
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Victoria Montana Ryan Victoria Montana Ryan is a former Assistant Professor for
the Conservation of Paintings at Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario and former adjunct faculty member at the
University of Denver where she was conservator of paintings
at the Rocky Mountain Conservation Center for over a
decade. Victoria Montana Ryan received her Master of Art
Conservation from Queen?s University and a Master of Arts
degree with an emphasis in Art Education/Museum Studies
from the University of New Mexico. Ms. Ryan has authored
papers on the care of paintings, integrated pest
management, and the importance of working with appraisers;
she has also appeared on the Discovery Channel to discuss
care of personal treasures. A Fellow of the American
Institute for Conservation, Ms. Ryan is also a member of
the Western Association for Art Conservation and the
Canadian Association for Conservation. She resides in
Colorado Springs, CO where she operates her private
conservation practice, Art Care Services, to serve the
conservation needs of museums, historical societies, public
and private collectors, institutions, corporations, and
municipalities, focusing on the care and preservation of
works of art.
Brad Bredehoft is the webmaster for Northern States Conservation Center (NSCC), administrator of museumclasses.org and also runs NSCC's product business. Brad has been with NSCC since 2005. Prior to working at NSCC Brad worked with the Science Musem of Minnesota in a number of roles including as the museum's webmaster, an exhibit developer and a consultant in the museum's move to a new facility where he was trained by and worked closely with museumclasses.org instructor Gretchen Anderson. He has a BS in Petroleum Engineering from Colorado School of Mines and a Masters in Business from Southern Methodist University.
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