{"id":8462,"date":"2013-06-08T08:51:18","date_gmt":"2013-06-08T13:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/?p=8462"},"modified":"2013-06-08T08:51:18","modified_gmt":"2013-06-08T13:51:18","slug":"41st-annual-meeting-photographic-materials-business-meeting-and-luncheon-may-30-conservators-as-diplomats-by-mary-jo-adams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2013\/06\/08\/41st-annual-meeting-photographic-materials-business-meeting-and-luncheon-may-30-conservators-as-diplomats-by-mary-jo-adams\/","title":{"rendered":"41st Annual Meeting \u2013 Photographic Materials Business Meeting and Luncheon, May 30, \u201cConservators as Diplomats,\u201d by Mary-Jo Adams"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"FincaVigia\"The PMG luncheon was business as usual, with an approval of the minutes and budget, and a welcoming of the new committee, but we also had the privilege of hearing from Mary-Jo Adams, Executive Director of the Finca Vig\u00eda Foundation.
\nFounded in 2003, the Finca Vig\u00eda Foundation is an American organization developed to preserve Ernest Hemingway\u2019s house and property in San Francisco de Paula, Cuba, about 12 miles outside of Havana. Hemingway lived in the house from 1939-1960 and it was opened to the public by the Cuban government after Hemingway\u2019s death. In 2005, Finca Vig\u00eda (\u201cLookout Farm\u201d) was deemed one of the National Trust for Historic Preservation\u2019s 11 Most Endangered Places, and in 2006 it was added to the World Monument Fund\u2019s 100 Most Endangered Sites. The house itself is still filled with original furniture, artwork, and other objects, including Hemingway\u2019s car and personal library. During Adams\u2019s talk, she detailed the work that has been done up to this point to restore the site to its original appearance.
\nThe majority of funding for the Foundation\u2019s preservation efforts comes from corporations, as donations to Cuba can be a bit tricky for the private sector. With that money, Adams and her team have been able to bring in specialists in architecture, engineering, and conservation to begin the process of repairing the estate and the collection. NEDCC has partnered with the foundation to consult on the conservation of archival materials, and photograph conservator Monique Fischer traveled to Cuba in 2012 to contribute to the efforts. All of the necessary materials were brought from the U.S. to treat, digitize, and re-house the books, papers, and photographs in the library collection.
\nAnother part of the initiative includes the training of Cuban volunteers on site and in preservation classes and workshops held in Havana. As Adams described, the greatest challenge has been to collaborate with the Cuban people through their many cultural and language differences. For instance, the Spanish word for \u201cendangered\u201d roughly translates to \u201cneglected,\u201d so it is Adams\u2019s job to explain the ongoing risks to the estate and best practices for its preservation. The title to the talk, \u201cConservators as Diplomats\u201d refers to the need for cultural heritage professionals to work at gaining the trust of their foreign colleagues before trying to force help upon them\u2026It also doesn\u2019t hurt to have the assistance of international celebrities like Cuban-American home improvement guru Bob Villa, who not only advised on areas of the building repair, but has advocated for site\u2019s preservation.
\nAdams expects that active restoration efforts of Finca Vig\u00eda should be complete by 2017. For more information, please visit the Foundation\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The PMG luncheon was business as usual, with an approval of the minutes and budget, and a welcoming of the new committee, but we also had the privilege of hearing from Mary-Jo Adams, Executive Director of the Finca Vig\u00eda Foundation. Founded in 2003, the Finca Vig\u00eda Foundation is an American organization developed to preserve Ernest … Continue reading “41st Annual Meeting \u2013 Photographic Materials Business Meeting and Luncheon, May 30, \u201cConservators as Diplomats,\u201d by Mary-Jo Adams”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":8464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,25,33,35,16],"tags":[72,407,430,469],"class_list":["post-8462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-annual-meeting","category-collectioncare","category-outreach-and-advocacy","category-photographic-materials","category-specialty-sessions","tag-aics-41st-annual-meeting","tag-ernest-hemingway","tag-finca-vigia-foundation","tag-global-outreach-and-advocacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}