PMG Winter Meeting (2025)
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Submission Deadline: September 16, 2024
Our Photographic Materials Group is hosting their 2025 Winter Meeting at the Muñoz Waxman Gallery of the Center for Contemporary Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Conference Dates
- Pre-session Workshop: February 5 (Wednesday)
Zach Long, a photograph conservator at Yale University Library, will lead a pre-session workshop at the New Mexico Museum of Art Vladem Contemporary on the history, characterization, and treatment of resin-coated photographs.
- Main sessions: February 6 and 7 (Thursday and Friday)
Call for Papers
We invite you to submit an abstract for either or both the PMG Winter Meeting and the Photographic Materials Session at the Annual Meeting. The deadline is September 16, 2024.
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Registration
Registration will open on September 4, 2024. A list of hotels and motels around the area will be posted to our registration portal.
Tours
Tours are being planned now and will have a maximum capacity of 15 people.
Workshop
Resin-Coated Photographic Prints with Zach Long ($100 add-on to registration)
Up to 20 participants can add this workshop to their conference registration. On February 5, Zach Long will lead a half-day workshop that delves into the history, characterization, and treatment of resin-coated photographs — the most prevalent photographic print materials of the last fifty years. Through a combination of lectures and hands-on sessions, we will explore the unique attributes of these materials and some of the challenges they present. A variety of samples will be shown to illustrate material variations and forms of deterioration. Practical areas to be covered include hinging, flattening, and separating blocked prints.
Zach Long is a photograph conservator at Yale University Library. He began researching resin-coated photographs while working on characterization projects at the Image Permanence Institute and has continued to research these materials in association with treatment projects over the past decade. Prior to joining Yale in 2023, he was a photograph conservator at the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts and the George Eastman Museum. He has a Master of Arts and Certificate of Advanced Study in Art Conservation from SUNY Buffalo State and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photographic Illustration from the Rochester Institute of Technology.
Exhibit, Sponsor, & Advertise
This meeting hosts 100-200 people with expertise in photograph and paper conservation, among other topics. Reach out to us if you're interested in reaching this group with information about your company, products, or services at meetings@culturalheritage.org.
See Past Meetings
Learn more about past winter meetings on group's Events page.