Resources

The works cited here will be discussed in the program “NEW Conservation Leadership Collective with a Foundation in Cultural Equity,” at the American Institute for Conservation’s annual meeting in Minneapolis, MN on May 30, 2025.

American Institute for Conservation’s Health and Safety Network, C2C Care The State of Mental Health for Workers at Cultural Heritage Institutions, 2024.

American Institute for Conservation, Expectations and Realities: A 2024 Condition Report of Conservators, 2025.

Foundation for Advancement in Conservation, “Held in Trust: Transforming Cultural Heritage for a More Resilient Future”, 2023.

S. Duckworth, Wheel of power/privilege [Infographic], 2020.

Kania, Kramer, and Senge, Adapted from “The Water of Systems Change,” 2018.

Xiao Situ, Art All Around Us: A Kid’s Guide to Finding Art in Everyday Life, 2024.

Dr. Nicole R. Robinson, Cultural Connections by Design.

Dr. Sanchita Balachandran, “Race, Diversity and Politics in Conservation—Our 21st Century Crisis,” May 16, 2016.

Mellon Foundation, demographic survey, 2016, 2018, 2022.

Joelle Wickens and Anisha Gupta, “Leveraging Systems Thinking to Dismantle Systemic Racism in Conservation,” 2024.

Jen Mayer, Becoming Better Together.

Francesca Bewer, A Laboratory fo Art. Harvard’s Fogg Museum and the Emergence of Conservation in America, 1900-1950, 2010.

Winterthur Library Digital Collections, FAIC Oral History Project.

The Spokesman-Review, “Giving till it hurts,” mentioning the transformative gift of Nobuko Kajitani, 2007.

Lescia Valmond, Tempe Stewart, Paul Springer, Jr., Kayla Rolle, Jasmine Malone, and Darshai Hollie, with article coordinator Priscilla Anderson for the Book and Paper Group (BPG), “Centering Voices: Undergraduate Preservation Internships for Students of Color,” AIC News, Lead Article, May 2023.

Held in Trust, National Convening, Library of Congress in Washington. Recording: which includes panel with Cheyenne Caraway, April 8, 2023.

Alice Procter, The Whole Picture, 2020.

Jeanelle Austin, Executive Director, Rise and Remember. Lecture for Washington Conservation Guild, “Telling Our Own Story: The Threat of Whiteness in Art Conservation,” June, 2, 2021.