CCAHA Preservation Field Services

FAIN: PE-295882-24

CCAHA (Philadelphia, PA 19103-5530)
Dyani Feige (Project Director: May 2023 to present)

The continuation and broadening of preservation field services programs including preservation planning, the Regional Heritage Stewardship Program, a sustainability cohort, education programs, and an apprenticeship focused on preventive conservation.

The Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts (CCAHA) requests two-year funding support to continue and broaden the reach of activities of CCAHA's preservation field services programs through preservation planning, the Regional Heritage Stewardship Program, a sustainability cohort, education programs, and an apprenticeship focused on preventive conservation. Goals for preservation field services activities in 2024-26 include: To competitively offer NEH-subsidized preservation planning assessments to 16 small to mid-sized institutions; to sustain the work of the Regional Heritage Stewardship Program in the Deep South and Appalachia; to address sustainability concerns at coastal collecting organizations through a new cohort program; to provide one national conferences on crisis and memorial collecting (as well as webinars and online courses); and to support emerging field service professionals through an apprenticeship in preventive conservation.