Program

Challenge Programs: Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grants

Period of Performance

5/1/2020 - 4/30/2025

Funding Totals (matching)

$182,500.00 (approved)
$182,500.00 (offered)
$146,000.00 (awarded)


Building Capacity for the Boston Athenæum Conservation Laboratory

FAIN: CHA-268774-20

Proprietors of The Boston Athenaeum Inc. (Boston, MA 02108-3764)
Dawn Walus (Project Director: May 2019 to September 2022)
William K. Evans (Project Director: September 2022 to present)

The establishment of a full-time position for a paper conservator specializing in fine art and photography, indirect costs for a related conservation laboratory, and the purchase of supplies.

The Building Capacity for the Boston Athenæum Conservation Laboratory initiative will support the full-time Paper Conservator position, provide a budget to appoint the new conservation lab with equipment and supplies, and offset the cost of overhead for the new Conservation Laboratory.





Associated Products

Paper Conservator: Before and After Photographs (Web Resource)
Title: Paper Conservator: Before and After Photographs
Author: Dawna Gyukeri
Author: Tatiana Cole
Abstract: No abstract
Year: 2021
Primary URL: https://www.bostonathenaeum.org/collections/conservation/neh-challenge-grant
Primary URL Description: Paper Conservator: Before and After Photographs

Presentation and Discussion with Paper Conservator Tatiana Cole (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: Presentation and Discussion with Paper Conservator Tatiana Cole
Abstract: No abstract
Author: Tatiana Cole
Date: 01/13/21
Location: Boston Athenaeum
Primary URL: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1b8k7QJf93odO5cs4x1VkP03jBbWjHmsC/view
Primary URL Description: Virtual presentation and conversation with Tatiana Cole

Paper Conservator: Before and After Photographs (Web Resource)
Title: Paper Conservator: Before and After Photographs
Author: Cory Bailey
Author: Tatiana Cole
Abstract: The webpage in the touchpoint for online gifts to the NEH Challenge Match. Visitors may view before and after photographs here of work completed by Paper Conservator Tatiana Cole as well as descriptions written by the conservator.
Year: 2021
Primary URL: https://www.bostonathenaeum.org/nehchallenge

A Learning Guide for the Harriet Hayden Albums (Course or Curricular Material)
Title: A Learning Guide for the Harriet Hayden Albums
Author: Tatiana Cole
Author: Hannah Weisman
Abstract: The Boston Athenæum has the great privilege and responsibility of stewarding two photograph albums that belonged to abolitionist and anti-slavery activist Harriet Bell Hayden. This learning guide is an invitation to connect with, reflect on, learn from, be inspired by, and find meaning in those albums. Paper Conservator Tatiana Cole restored the albums that were used as the basis of this learning guide.
Year: 2022
Primary URL: https://www.bostonathenaeum.org/sites/default/files/pdf/athenaeum_learning_guide_digital.pdf
Primary URL Description: A link to the learning guide (PDF).
Secondary URL: https://cdm.bostonathenaeum.org/digital/collection/p16057coll52
Secondary URL Description: A link to a description of the conserved album.
Audience: K - 12