This is the home to publications produced or provided by the American Institute for Conservation (AIC), its subgroups, and the Foundation for Advancement in Conservation (FAIC). This online resource is funded by both AIC and FAIC.
Within the Resource Hub, you will find:
AIC Specialty Group Resources and Postprints
The following postprints share their contents by individual articles on our platforms:
- AIC Annual Meeting Postprints (postprints of general and concurrent general sessions of AIC’s Annual Meeting)
- Book and Paper Group Annual (postprints of AIC’s Book and Paper Group – on the AIC website)
- Contemporary Art Review (postprints of AIC’s Contemporary Art Network)
- Electronic Media Review (postprints of AIC’s Electronic Media Group)
- Objects Specialty Group Postprints (postprints of AIC’s Objects Specialty Group)
- Topics in Photographic Preservation (postprints of AIC’s Photographic Materials Group)
These postprints are available by volume only:
- Paintings Specialty Group Postprints
- Research and Technical Studies Postprints
- Textile Specialty Group Postprints
- Wooden Artifacts Group Postprints
The TechFocus workshop series is organized by the American Institute for Conservation’s Electronic Media Group to provide detailed technical education in the preservation of media art. Recordings from the series are found on this website:
- TechFocus (a project of the Electronic Materials Group, an AIC Specialty Group)
Conservation Graduate Student Research
- Association of North American Graduate Programs in Conservation (ANAGPIC) Student Papers (provided by FAIC through an agreement with ANAGPIC)
Open-Access Archives
- Textile Conservation Newsletter Archives (Archives digitized by AIC’s Textiles Conservation Group)
- ACTS FACTS Archives (archives provided by FAIC through an agreement with ACTS FACTS)
- Conservators Converse, archives of the AIC Blog 2008-2018
- The 2004 Heritage Health Index Report (a Heritage Preservation and IMLS project)
FAIC-Supported Projects
- Sustainability Tools in Cultural Heritage (STiCH)
- Hermitage Photographic Conservation Initiative (an FAIC project, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation)
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