These fellowships are meant to improve the quality and quantity of publications in the field of conservation by encouraging conservation professionals to prepare publishable manuscripts.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: TBD
Application Process
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Recipients
FAIC has awarded 51 Samuel H. Kress Conservation Publication Fellowships since 1994. Of these, 33 have been published and additional authors are currently working with publishers. The Fellowships have made an outstanding impact on the field of conservation. FAIC is committed to the production and dissemination of reference works for conservation professionals, and is very grateful to The Samuel H. Kress Foundation for its support for this project.
- 2024
Kate Wight Tyler, Prototypes, Process, Production: Critical Issues in the Conservation of Design Objects
- 2023
Heather Brown and Luisa Casella, Significance, Care and Conservation of Photograph and Image Collections
Rosa Lowinger, Dwell Time: A Memoir of Art, Exile, and Conservation
- 2022
Laura Buchner, Dalle de Verre
- 2020
Nichole Doub, Conservation Guidance for 106 Archaeologists
- 2019
Sylvie Penichon, translation into Spanish of Care and Identification of 20th Century Color Photographs
- 2018
Matthew Hayes, What Burckhardt Saw: Restoration and the Invention of the Renaissance, c. 1840-1904
- 2017
John Fidler, Fourth edition of Bernard Feilden's Conservation of Historic Buildings
Nancy Odegaard, Saving Pottery: Conservation Approach and Treatment
- 2016
Gwen Spicer, Using Magnets in Conservation
- 2015
Michele Marincola and Lucretia Kargere, The Conservation of Medieval Polychrome Wood Sculpture: History, Methodology, Practice
- 2014
Carolyn Riccardelli and George Wheeler, After the Fall: The Conservation of Tullio Lombardo's Adam
- 2013
Elissa O'Loughlin, A Conservation Guide to Pressure Sensitive Tapes: History, Identification, Treatment
- 2012
Blythe McCarthy, Chinese Paintings and the Introduction of Non-traditional Materials
Kazuko Hioki, Printed Books as Artifacts from Japan of the Edo Period (1603-1867)
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2011
Steven Weintraub, Illumination of Museum Collections: New Perspectives on Perception, Preservation, and Sustainability
- 2010
Barbara Appelbaum, Guide to Preservation of Collections
Sylvie Pénichon, Care and Identification of 20th Century Color Photographs
- 2009
Mary-Lou Florian, Cellulosic Facts: Cellulosic Materials in Heritage Objects; Structure, Chemistry, Identification, and Conservation Concerns
- 2008
Martin Jürgens, Identification and Conservation of Digital Prints
Julia Miller, Books Will Speak Plain: A Handbook for Identifying and Describing Historical Bindings in Rare and General Book Collections
- 2007
Eric Hansen, Lime Mortars and Plasters: Their Technology and Analysis
- 2006
Yoshiyuki Nishio, Japanese Folding Screens
- 2005
Cathleen A. Baker, Nineteenth-Century American Paper: Technologies, Materials, Characteristics, and Conservation
Gay Myers & Lance Mayer, The Art and Mystery of Painting: American Painters on Technique
Toby Jonathan Raphael, Conservation Standards for Museum Exhibitions
- 2004
María Fernanda Valverde, Photographic Negatives – Guide for Identification and Preservation
- 2003
Sylvia Albro, The History of Hand-papermaking in Fabriano
Vicki Cassman, Human Remains: A Guide for Conservators, Museums, Universities, and Law Enforcement Agencies
Roy Perkinson, Translation of Max Schweidler’s The Restoration of Prints, Drawings, Books, etc.
- 2002
Harold Mailand, While Not in Use: Traditions in Preserving Textiles and Costumes
Julie Reilly & Jane Merritt, Keepers of the House
Valentine Walsh, The Pigment Compendium
- 2001
Irene Brückle, Water in Paper Conservation
Alice Boccia Paterakis, The Conservation of Inorganic Archaeological Objects
Ellen Pearlstein, Preventive Conservation for the Practicing Conservator
George Wheeler, Alkoxysilanes for Stone Consolidation
- 2000
Julie Biggs, The Conservation of Iron-Gall Ink on Paper
Elizabeth S. Goins, The Analysis of Historic Cementious Materials
- 1999
Mary-Lou Florian, Organic Material: Workbooks
Chandra Reedy, Thin Section Petrography of Cultural Materials
John Watson, Voices in the Wind: The Preservation of Historic Organs
- 1998
Melanie Gifford, Netherlandish Painting in the Early 17th Century
Nancy Odegaard, Spot Tests for Materials Characterization
Glenn Wharton, Conservation Issues in the Design of Public Art
- 1996
Barbara Appelbaum, Conservation Treatment Methodology
Pamela Hatchfield, Pollutants in the Museum Environment
Marianne Webb, Lacquer: Technology and Conservation
- 1995
Lois Olcott Price, Fabrication and Preservation of American Architectural Drawings Created Prior to 1930
- 1994
Nancy Davis, General Conservation Assessments: A Review
Michele R. Derrick, Infrared Spectroscopy in Conservation Science
Randy Silverman, Book Repair: History and Technique