Care and Handling of your Heritage Textile Collection

The Shaker Historical Society in partnership with the Intermuseum Conservation Association (ICA) of Cleveland announces the program, “Care and Handling of your Heritage Textile Collection” with Jane Hammond, Textile Conservator of the ICA. This program will be held at the Shaker Historical Society on Sunday, April 26th at 3pm.

“Care and Handling of your Heritage Textile Collection”
Sunday, April 26 at 3pm
Free for SHS Members/ $5 Non-Members
RSVP to Ruth 216-921-1201

Jane Hammond earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the University of North Carolina. She is also an Associate Member of the American Institute for Conservation and specializes in textile conservation at ICA. Her lecture complements the Shaker Historical Society’s current exhibit “Out of the Closet: Rarely Seen Textiles from the Collection”, on until May 30th.

ICA – Art Conservation (ICA) was the nation’s first non-profit regional art conservation center. The organization was founded in 1952 by the directors of six major Midwestern museums to provide professional, high quality, and cost effective art conservation services. The ICA was the model used by the National Endowment for the Arts, when it began dispersing start-up funding to create a network of similar centers across the United States in 1971.

Today, the ICA offers a range of services to its membership, as well as to non-member collecting organizations, governmental agencies, corporations, and the general public. These services include laboratory and on-site conservation, climate-controlled storage, custom crate building and display work, surveys and inspections, studio-quality photo documentation, educational programming, disaster assistance, grant collaboration, and publications for both a professional and general audience.