Last Chance to Register for the NCPC Annual Conference

The NCPC Annual Conference, Unbroken Threads: Preserving our Textile Heritage is on November 7, 2016. It is not too late to register! This meeting will be of interest whether you have one textile or hundreds of textiles in your collection.

Speakers include:

  • Newbold Richardson, Conservator in Private Practice
  • Colleen Callahan, Consultant and owner of The Costume & Textile Specialists
  • Paige Myers, Textile Conservator, NC Museum of History
  • Deb Higgins, Director, May Museum & Park
  • Wanda Lassiter, Curator, Museum of the Albermarle
  • Lynn Lancaster Gorges, Textile Conservator and owner of Historic Textiles Studio

NCPC would like to thank its conference sponsors:

  • The Foundation of the American Institute for Conservation
  • Hollinger Metal Edge
  • University Products
  • The HF Group

July 2016 Newsletter Now Available

This July 2016 issue of NC Preserves is now available online. The issue is dedicated to all things “membership.” In it you will can read about:

  • The benefits of NCPC membership–discounts, networking, and more!
  • Institutional members–thank you for your support
  • High Point Museum’s Preservation Grant–digitizing the High Point Enterprise negative collection, an NCPC grant-funded project
  • 2016 Preservation Grants are announced
  • New Workshop–Care of Historic Cemeteries (July 22, 2016; Asheville)
  • NCPC History Corner–discover how NCPC got started
  • How you can help NCPC create new workshops