Virginia Conservation Association
The Virginia Conservation Association (VCA) promotes the care and preservation of cultural materials. The VCA offers education and training for those involved in conservation and provides a forum for discussion of pertinent issues and new developments in the field.
News
Wonderful news! With COVID numbers down and the weather warming up, we will be holding the usual VCA Spring Field Trip, in person! We would like to invite you to join us on May 7th at 10am for a tour of Fort Monroe and the Casemate Museum. The tour will include a look into the storage facilities and preventative measures taken by staff, a tour of the fort, and possibly a peek into the archaeological lab. The tour will last for 2 hours, so bring your comfortable walking shoes!
Wonderful news! With COVID numbers down and the weather warming up, we will be holding the usual VCA Spring Field Trip, in person! We would like to invite you to join us on May 7th at 10am for a tour of Fort Monroe and the Casemate Museum. The tour will include a look into the storage facilities and preventative measures taken by staff, a tour of the fort, and possibly a peek into the archaeological lab. The tour will last for 2 hours, so bring your comfortable walking shoes!
Please join us on March 17th at 6:30 PM on Zoom for the March member’s meeting and some St. Patrick’s Day fun! For the meeting presentation, Kate Ridgway will be presenting on her recent work at the DHR unearthing time capsules. The time capsules date to 1887 and were buried underneath the statue of Robert E. Lee in Richmond. Join us as Kate discusses the complexities of opening a time capsule on live-stream and future plans for the objects.
Just a reminder that the second January meeting is this week, Thursday January 27th at 6pm. The meeting will feature past VCA President Katherine Ridgway discussing options for VCA reorganization. So please come and express your thoughts and ideas about how to move forward with the VCA!
We would like to invite you to attend the 2nd annual VCA Virtual Holiday Trivia on Tuesday December 14th, at 6pm.
Just a reminder that the next VCA meeting is less than one week away! We will be meeting virtually (Please contact Laurie and Jennifer for Zoom link: membership at virginiaconservationassociation.org) on Thursday, November 18th at 6:30 pm.
So excited to see you all again soon. We wanted to let you know that due to some scheduling conflicts, the first meeting of the year will be Oct 5. at 6pm. Apologies for not holding the members meeting in September as usual, but we went with a date that best suited the speaker. The meeting will be held via Zoom.
Please join us this Thursday, May 20th at 6:30pm for our final virtual meeting of the season! This will be held again via Zoom (link below) and we’ll get started right at 6:30pm. We will be having a lab tour from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts followed by a business meeting to announce the new board members for next year.
As a special event to finish this all-virtual year for the VCA, we thought we’d host something a bit more social. As you may have already read in the newsletter, VCA will be hosting a Virtual Craft Night on Wednesday June 30, 7pm.
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Please join us for a presentation on the Bray School, Its History, Move, Historic Preservation, and Future Interpretation, with Matthew Webster, Executive Director, Grainger Department of Architectural Preservation and Research. Refreshments begin @5:30 pm, and the talk will begin @6:15pm. The event will be held in the Bruton Heights Conservation Building, 309 1st Street, Williamsburg, VA 23185 https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/locations/dewitt-wallace-collections-and-conservation-building/
The building is the 2nd from the left as you enter the Bruton Heights campus. Follow the road until it ends in order to park in the lot behind the 2nd building, then walk up the path along the side of the building to arrive at the front entrance.
You may wish to drive by the school on Francis Street on the way to the meeting. Weather and time permitting, those who wish may accompany Matt Webster to see the current site and state of the building after the formal presentation.