PAST PROGRAM
Preserve Your Story
Series of conservation workshops
Online and in-person
2020–2021
PRESENTED BY
Robyn Ho and Eleanor Vallier (c/o Studios)
Mar Cruz (ACMI)
The Preserve Your Story workshop series aims to help participants build skills in simple conservation that they can then use on objects at home.
The series of four workshops were presented across 2020 and 2021. The three online workshops were recorded and are available for viewing below. All four workshops have downloadable materials attached.
The workshops covered caring for paper objects and photographs (Workshop 1), caring for digital files and slide collections (Workshop 2), caring for textile and fabric-based objects (Workshop 3) and accessioning, photographing and documenting artwork and how best to store the records created (Workshop 4).
WORKSHOP 3
Presented by c/o StudiosCaring for Textiles
and Fabric-Based Objects
Download Handout [PDF, 5.8MB]
WORKSHOP 4
Presented by Mar CruzDocumentation and
Archiving Practices
Download Handout [PDF, 1.2MB]
Download Report Sample [PDF, 297KB]
Download Template [DOC, 36KB]
Download Description List [XLS, 14KB]
About c/o Studios
Robyn Ho and Eleanor Vallier are the founders of c/o Studios, a conservation practice based in Melbourne that aims to provide artist-, value- and people-centred conservation of modern and contemporary art that is sustainable, inclusive and collaborative. Robyn and Eleanor are both interdisciplinary conservators and have experience working with a wide variety of collections including community organisations, museums, galleries and private clients..
About Mar Cruz
Mar Cruz is an art conservator specialising in objects and new media. Mar holds a Masters of Cultural Materials Conservation from the University of Melbourne and has experience as an art director, copywriter and graphic designer. Mar was previously a volunteer at the Women's Art Register, assisting with a range of archival projects including the Slide Rehousing Project.
Preserve Your Story is supported by a City of Yarra Annual Grant.
