Workshop Fee: $75.00, pre-registration required, limited space, this is being offered as an in-person workshop only and will be held at the Millyard Museum, 200 Bedford Street, Manchester, NH 03101. To register and pay for the workshop, please email collectionscarealliance@gmail.com and we will send you an invoice. You may pay by credit card or check.
Fee includes: breakfast treats, morning and afternoon snacks, beverages and lunch
Description: Join us for an in-person full day workshop to explore:
Old loans
Items "found in collection"
Abandoned Property (legislation for all New England states will be discussed)
Best practices, including how to review your collections policies and forms to ensure they are compliant with your state's legislation.
This workshop is designed for any object collecting institution - libraries, archives, historical societies, cultural centers and museums. It is especially suitable for small-to-medium-sized institutions with volunteer staff or staff with little experience dealing with clearing title to old loans, abandoned property, and things found in collections.
Upon confirmation of registration you will receive a link to a short survey of questions the answers to which will assist panelists in designing specifics for the content of the workshop.
Presenters:
Amanda Nelson
Amanda Nelson is principal and lead attorney of Artium Amore a law firm which solely specializes in serving the artistic community and its unique legal needs. Prior to getting her JD from the University of New Hampshire’s Franklin Pierce School of Law where she focused on art and museum law, Amanda worked for ten years as a museum curator and museum consultant concentrating in the area of collections care and management. Amanda received her BA in History with minors in French and Music, and her MA in History and Museum Studies. She is an accomplished violinist and volunteers for various non-profit organizations.
Vivian Lea Solek
Vivian Lea Solek is the Archivist for the Knights of Columbus Supreme Council Archives located in New Haven, CT. She holds a duel degree in American Studies and Art History from Randolph-Macon Woman’s College and a M.A. in American Studies from George Washington University. After working as a curator for over 25 years, Vivian Lea earned her MS/LIS with a concentration in Archival Management from Simmons University.
She has been curator for the Greensboro Historical Museum (Greensboro, NC), the Frontier Culture Museum (Staunton, VA) and the Old Barracks Museum (Trenton, NJ). She has been active in the Virginia Association of Museums and the North Carolina Museums Council, serving on the board and various committees, speaking at annual conferences, and teaching various workshops on collections management and care.
After moving to Connecticut, Vivian Lea worked for a number of small historical societies and libraries, helping them to improve their collections’ care. In both Virginia and Connecticut, she was very active in the push to enact old loan/abandoned property statutes favorable to museums, which included testifying before house committees about the need for such legislation.
Darlene Bialowski
Darlene Bialowski, principal of Darlene Bialowski Art Services, LLC, has been in the museum and cultural heritage preservation field for more than 25 years working first as a Curatorial Assistant at Memorial Hall Museum in Deerfield, MA; to being the sole Registrar for the then four Springfield Museums in Springfield, MA as well as overseeing two satellite exhibition sites at Smith & Wesson’s headquarters and its Shooting Academy; to being an independent contract Registrar. In 2014 she added fine and decorative arts to her firm’s services, after becoming an accredited member of the Appraises Association of America. She is an author and lecturer at regional, national and international conferences.
After six years as its first President and with Officer term expirations, Darlene is currently the Vice President of the Collections Care and Conservation Alliance (CCCA), and a Past President of the Center for Painted Wall Preservation; both are cultural heritage preservation non-profits; the first she helped co-found. With her extensive backgrounds in the fields of collections care, art, cultural heritage preservation, appraising and being a former paralegal, Darlene’s expertise and broad network of colleagues and experts assist her in aiding clients and colleagues directly or at the very least, being able to make the right introductions if necessary.