PMG Winter Meeting (2025)
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)
- Main sessions: February 6 and 7 (Thursday and Friday)
- Program is available
Registration
- Registration is now open! Review the rates and register today!
- A downloadable list of local hotels and motels is on our registration portal.
- Tours are being planned now and will have a maximum capacity of 15 people.
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Workshop information is below (workshop is sold out).
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PMG Santa Fe Local Guide
Santa Fe - Some Background
The site of Santa Fe was originally occupied by a number of Pueblo Indian villages with founding dates from between 1050 to 1150. Most archaeologists agree that these sites were abandoned 200 years before the Spanish arrived. The Spanish founded Santa Fe in 1607 and in 1610, it became “La Villa Real de la Santa Fé de San Francisco de Asís” - the Royal City of the Holy Faith of St. Francis of Assisi - and was declared as the Capital of the Spanish Kingdom of Nuevo Mexico. As such, it was a Presidio and it is the oldest, continually-used North American governmental center north of Mexico City. The city layout was determined by Spanish laws concerning how different types of towns should look. Santa Fe later became the capital of the Mexican state of Nuevo Mexico, of the US territory of New Mexico, and after 1912, the state of New Mexico. Santa Fe is the end of the Santa Fe Trail, one of the most northern stops on El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, and is at the end of the Rocky Mountains.
Our Meeting Venue
The meeting will be held in the Muñoz Waxman Gallery of the Center for Contemporary Arts (CCA) on the campus of the Armory for the Arts, 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM 87505. It is about a mile from the Plaza. This site was the location for the New Mexico National Guard during World War II. The Muñoz Waxman Gallery was originally built to be the tank garage and shed. It was remodeled to be an event venue and gallery in the late 1980s.
Weather
The meeting is in February and Santa Fe is in an alpine-desert climate (7,000 feet above sea level), so it snows (a lot sometimes). The highways and local roads can be icy, especially coming north on I-25 interstate up over the high mesa plateaus at La Bajada (see the Travel section of the Local Guide). February usually has beautiful sunny and cold days. You can expect that there will be a large difference between day and night-time temperatures of 20 to 30 degrees. We usually have fairly low humidity, so snow usually sublimes, rather than melts.
Read more about Santa Fe, the meeting and workshop, hotels, travel, and a delightful sightseeing and dining/entertainment guide in our downloadable PMG Santa Fe Local Guide.
Pre-Session Workshop
Resin-Coated Photographic Prints with Zach Long
($100 add-on to registration)
Limited Availability: 20 participants (SOLD OUT)
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.