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The Safety and Cultural Heritage Summit: A Conversation on Its Impact and Future Direction

  • 6 Apr 2023
  • 5:00 PM - 6:45 PM
  • Smithsonian American Art Museum, G St NW and 8th St NW, Washington DC

Registration is closed

This in-person event is free to all. Please register for the event via the link above.

Potomac LS and WCG encourages attendees to follow CDC guidelines; masks are welcomed and available.


Event Details

  • 5:00 - 5:45 pm – Social Time and Light Refreshments (MacMillan Education Center).
  • 6:00 – 6:45 pm – Lecture and moderated audience conversation (McEvoy Auditorium)
  • 6:45 pm – Program concludes (Museum closes at 7:00 pm)


Topic

The WCG and AIHA Potomac Local Section are excited to host this joint meeting focusing on the history and future of the Safety and Cultural Heritage Summit, our annual professional development seminar coordinated by Potomac LS, WCG and the Smithsonian Institution. Speakers Kathy Makos (Potomac) and Anne Marigza (WCG) have been members of the Summit Planning Team since its 2016 inception. Using a key example from each year, they will explain its importance to OEHS and cultural heritage work, its impact on future case studies and the expansion of the Summit from 100 attendees to an international online audience of 700+. The presentation will be followed by a moderated audience discussion of what health and safety themes in cultural heritage research, collection care and facility management should we focus on as we begin planning for the Fall 2023 Summit (now being offered every 2 years).


About our speakers

Kathryn Makos, CIH, Potomac LS Secretary and Past Chair, retired (2013) from the Smithsonian Institution’s Office of Safety, Health and Environmental Management. For 26 years, she was responsible for developing occupational health and safety management programs, conducting exposure risk assessments, and providing safety training to staff in collection care, research laboratories, exhibit fabrication shops, and facility operations and maintenance. Ms. Makos has lectured and published widely on topics of environmental hazards unique to museums and cultural institutions and is a co-editor of Health and Safety for Museum Professionals (2012). Her 35+ year career included positions with the US Department of Energy and the Illinois OSHA On-Site Consultation Program. Ms. Makos holds a Master of Public Health from the University of Illinois Chicago and is currently a Research Collaborator with the National Museum of Natural History. She is an Awarded Honorary Member of the American Institute for Conservation, a former Chair of their Health and Safety Committee, and a member of both the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections and the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists. Kathy is the co-founder (with Eryl Wentworth, former AIC Executive Director) and Past-Chair of the AIHA Museum and Cultural Heritage Industry Working Group.


Anne Marigza, WCG Liaison to the Safety and Cultural Heritage Summit and Member of the AIHA Museum and Cultural Heritage Industry Working Group. Ms. Marigza is a conservator of books and documents at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, and a Professional Member of the American Institute for Conservation. She is a past member of the AIC Health and Safety Committee, including serving as co-chair from 2017 to 2019. Anne received her Master’s degree from the Preservation and Conservation Studies program at the University of Texas School of Information. Before the Holocaust Museum, she worked in term positions at the Library of Congress, University of Maryland Libraries, and the National Archives and Records Administration, and was a post-graduate Mellon fellow at the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts in Philadelphia. Anne is a member of the AIHA Museum and Cultural Heritage Industry Working Group, a professional collaborative partnership with AIC to provide health and safety information to the collections care profession. She has also served on the board of the Washington Conservation Guild in various positions.


Transportation

  • “Gallery Place-Chinatown” Metro Station (Green Line)
  • “Metro Center” Station (Blue/Orange/Silver Lines)
  • Paid parking lots in area.

We are looking forward to seeing you at our April Technical Meeting!

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