The Equity & Inclusion Committee: Sharing Past, Present, and Future Work
By Nicole Kruger, Lindsey Wavrek, and Maria Olivia Davalos Stanton for EIC
Who We Are
The Equity and Inclusion Committee (EIC) supports AIC in the fundamental belief that caring for cultural heritage is inseparable from the recognition and respect of the creative achievements and histories of all peoples. Our mission is to advance the idea that conservation is for everyone, by everyone. Our committee collaborates with the AIC Board and across committees to provide guidance, develop resources that engage membership on issues of diversity, inclusion, and accessibility, and deliver diverse programming. We are dedicated to dismantling biases and championing a more accessible and just professional community for all.
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WAG: Making the Case for Frames: Accessioning and Visibility
By Lauren Ross for the Wooden Artifacts Group
For frames, as for many collection objects that support another element, access to the physical item or its records is not always a given; frames largely exist in paired relationships but are also autonomous, unique objects that can be married or divorced, and are usually materially different from their partners. A frame may be abandoned, languishing in some storage closet or basement, exchanged with another, or disassociated from its other part(s). Without records, accession numbers, or very specific identifying marks, plaques, or tags, there may be a total loss of access to the context of the component. Custodians of frames have long been confronted with a variety of condition problems; certainly all ten agents of deterioration have the potential for deleterious effects, but one that is strikingly still common and quite avoidable is that of dissociation, which results in loss of material, provenance, culture, knowledge, and context for both the frame and its associated object(s).
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