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C2C Care Course Starting Tuesday January 21, 2025: Investigating Contamination and Pesticides in Cultural Heritage Collections

  • 1.  C2C Care Course Starting Tuesday January 21, 2025: Investigating Contamination and Pesticides in Cultural Heritage Collections

    Posted 01-14-2025 14:54

    Increasing awareness among museums, institutions, and tribal communities about the potential risks of pesticide contamination residues on cultural heritage collections is critical, especially with increasing Indigenous involvement in collection care and the formal repatriation of cultural heritage to Native communities. This course will cover the components of how to evaluate potential pesticide contamination and human risk. Each webinar will provide resources and examples on a specific topic, as well as opportunities for discussion and examples. By the end of the course participants will: 

    • Know how to prepare an institutional pesticide use history.
    • Gain information about pesticide chemicals and potential for human risk.
    • Participate in a review of commonly used testing and analytical techniques, with information about their limitations, sampling, and other related topics.
    • Understand how to organize data and results from analysis and historical research
    • Be able to convey information in a way that frames acceptable risk and tribal perspectives. 

    Course Instructors

    • Lisa Goldberg, Conservator, Goldberg Preservation Services, LLC
    • Marilen Pool, Objects Conservator, Principal, Sonoran Art Conservation Services

    Course Schedule

    • Session 1 – Pesticide History – Tuesday January 21, 2025 1:00-2:30 pm ET
    • Session 2 – Pesticide Chemicals – Tuesday January 28, 2025 1:00-2:30 pm ET
    • Session 3 – Testing and Analysis – Tuesday February 4, 2025 1:00-2:30 pm ET
    • Session 4 – Organizing Information – Tuesday February 11, 2025 1:00-2:30 pm ET
    • Session 5 – Risk Communication & Tribal Perspectives – Tuesday February 18, 2025 1:00-2:30 pm ET

    Registration Fee

    • $149 Regular Fee

    More info: https://connectingtocollections.org/course_contamination_pesticides/



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    Robin Bauer Kilgo (she/her/hers)
    Connecting to Collections Care Coordinator, FAIC
    c2cc@culturalheritage.org
    National Heritage Responders WG Co-Chair
    Contract Registrar/Consultant
    rbkilgo@gmail.com
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