Community, Collaboration, And Cultural Heritage Conservation Project

FAIN: PE-277142-21

UCLA; Regents of the University of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA 90024-4201)
Glenn Wharton (Project Director: June 2020 to present)
Ellen Pearlstein (Co Project Director: January 2021 to present)

Three years of community collaboration training, internship support, and student stipends for three incoming graduate students to the UCLA/Getty Master’s Program in the Conservation of Archaeological and Ethnographic Materials.

The UCLA/Getty Conservation Program seeks $250,000 to support a project in which three Master's graduate students will focus on the specialized practices of collaborative conservation. Over the course of three years, the designated "NEH fellows" will develop capacity as conservators while working closely with community stewards to enhance collections care practices within their cultural context. This project will enable the Program to refine the pioneering model it has developed for collaborative work with tribal museums and extend it to other important, yet underserved collections and sites with a wider range of stakeholders. Requested funds include partial stipends to support fellows during the first two years of the program and on two summer internships; thesis research and a nine-month internship in the third year; a senior conservator who will provide summer internship supervision when in-house staff is not available; and, a modest sum for supplies and materials.