Dear Colleagues, It was an honor to serve on the HBCU Library Alliance Board, a position I valued greatly. It is inspiring to observe all that the Alliance has accomplished thanks to the hard work and commitment of many, especially Sandra and LaTasha! I am hopeful that one of your photographic collections can be preserved at no cost and with great expertise by our ten graduate students in art conservation during my January 2024 three-week, intensive course in photograph conservation. I will be advertising this opportunity nationally soon, but I very much want to work with one of our HBCU libraries if possible. This is my primary goal. Last year, with great thanks to Perry Trice, we worked on a superb collection from Talladega College. It was a rewarding experience for our students and 130 stunning yet damaged photographs were rehoused and conserved. We estimate this treatment would have cost close to $30,000. See https://www.artcons.udel.edu/news/Pages/Preservation-and-Partnership-Art-conservation-course-treats-Tuskegee-photographs.aspx<https://www.artcons.udel.edu/news/Pages/Preservation-and-Partnership-Art-conservation-course-treats-Tuskegee-photographs.aspx%0d> In prior years we have conserved wonderful collection from the Tuskegee University Archives and the special collections at the Franklin Library, Fisk University. See https://www.artcons.udel.edu/news/Pages/Preservation-and-Partnership-Art-conservation-course-treats-Tuskegee-photographs.aspx Please let me know if you are interested in this possibility so we can connect asap to determine if this is possible. Please read below and all the best to each of you! Debbie Norris The Department of Art Conservation at the University of Delaware https://www.artcons.udel.edu/ seeks to help preserve a small (less than 200) collection of photographic prints held in a museum, library, archive or historic house that is in need of conservation treatment and rehousing. This project will be incorporated into a 3-week graduate-level course in photograph conservation which I have taught for 40+ years. https://www.artcons.udel.edu/faculty/ud-faculty/dhnorris. The work will be completed on site at Winterthur Museum. All costs - transportation, treatment and rehousing supplies, time - will be covered by UD. The collection chosen will be shipped in late October for initial examination; treatment will be conducted in January, and the collection returned in February. These projects provide our ten talented graduate students with an opportunity to apply their skills and knowledge to the preservation of significant photographic holdings worldwide. International projects will be considered. Criteria for selection include (1) the significance of the collection locally, nationally or globally and the opportunity to preserve a collection in collaboration with their stakeholders and community, (2) lack of financial or human resources available to care for the collection (3) the condition of the collection - ideally these materials will require surface cleaning and some stabilization including binder consolidation, tear mending, flattening, and/or minimal inpainting, (4) the variety of the photographic processes represented, and (5) the learning and teaching opportunities presented by this work Given the collection size and time frame, individual reports will not be prepared for every photograph. One larger report will be required; selective individual reports may be prepared by each of our students. Approval for treatment will be secured in November so that the project can be completed on time. Planning is key. We have estimated that past projects would have costs $25,000 - $45,000. This is a wonderful opportunity for institutions and for our students and a project that I look forward to annually. Please email me (Debbie Hess Norris) with questions at dhnorris@udel.edu<mailto:dhnorris@udel.edu>. While I may send an e-mail outside traditional working hours, I do not expect a response outside of your own. Debra Hess Norris (she, her, hers) Chair and Professor of Photograph Conservation, Department of Art Conservation Unidel - Henry Francis DuPont Chair of Fine Arts Director, Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation Francis Alison Professor, 2018 Department of Art Conservation (www.artcons.udel.edu<http://www.artcons.udel.edu/>) 303 Old College Newark, Delaware 19716 Cell 302-981-8424 (but email is best) Sandra Phoenix Executive Director at HBCU Library Alliance<http://hbculibraries.org/> Office: (678) 210-5801 ext. 101 Mobile: (404) 702-5854 Web: hbculibraries.org<http://hbculibraries.org/> Email: sphoenix@hbculibraries.org Seek justice, honor the ancestors, honor the children and those yet to come. 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