RCWR Elections

Dear Membership:

Its election time for the new officers for the new term (2012 - 2014). Please consider running for a position or nominating a colleague whom you think will help keep the RC-WR a strong professional organization. The RC-WR needs active officers to keep up the programming that has been implemented these past few years.

Qualifications: Current voting members of the RC-WR

The new officers will be formally announced at this year's annual business luncheon on September 25 at WMA Honolulu.

The Nominating Committee members are available to answer questions, their information is below.

Deadline to submit nomination: July 9, 2011 (5:00pm PST)

Nominating Committee Contact Information (32k pdf)

Declaration of Candidacy Form (35k pdf)

RCWR Officer Descriptions (49k pdf)

Upcoming Workshops

Environmental Management: Stewardship & Sustainability (Portland, OR)
Location: Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Date: May 22, 2012
Time: 8:45 AM - 5:00 PM (registration and refreshments 8:15 AM - 8:45 AM)
Fees: $85 CCAHA and RC-WR members, regular price $100. Contact RC-WR Chair, Nicole Nathan to obtain the discount code.
Registration deadline: May 7, 2012

WMA Pre-conference Workshops

Pre-Conference Tour Cabot’s Pueblo Museum, CSI: Registrar
Saturday, October 20. 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Lunch will be provided by RCWR. Registration will be handled by Registrars Committee Western Region. Based on annual events organized by the registrars’ committees in the Mid-Atlantic and Mountain- Plains regions, and the Reinforcement Crew at AAM, the CSI: Registrar event has registrars, conservators and other collections professionals share their skills with an institution in the conference’s host city, providing a day’s worth of volunteer labor for collections-based projects, such as general cleaning, inventory of collections, condition reporting, re-housing of collections, moving collections and numbering collections. This is an all-day event and provides a great opportunity to chat with your colleagues and share experiences while using your skills to help out a museum in need!
To register for this workshop please email Heather Bouchey at heather.bouchey@pam.org

Cockled, Frayed, and Friable: A Conservator’s View to the Art of Condition Reporting
Pre-Conference Workshop at Sunnylands
Sunday, October 21, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Sharpen your condition reporting skills in this technical workshop led by conservators working with a variety of materials from paper to organic artifacts to outdoor sculpture. The workshop will cover condition definitions and tools for accurate assessments, proper handling of various objects and materials, and new technologies for photo documentation in condition reporting. The conservator’s view to condition report writing will be invaluable to registrars, collection managers, art couriers, and any museum professional handling art and historical objects.
To register for this workshop please email Heather Bouchey at heather.bouchey@pam.org

Travel Stipends and Scholarships

2012 European Registrars Conference Travel Stipend, Edinburgh, Scotland, Nov. 4-6, 2012
Download info (77k pdf)
Deadline to apply: July 6, 2012

Information about upcoming workshops, forums, and travel stipends will be sent out to the current membership via email.

Membership

Download the RC-WR Membership Brochure (136k pdf)