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News
New Year: new courses & seminars!
We hope to see you again at our series of new seminars and courses we are planning in 2024.
Please see below a few seminars and courses you can already register for now.
1 Feb
Polymers and Cultural Heritage with Rebecca Ploeger
14 Feb
Introduction to Corrosion with Adam Wojcik
22 Feb
The Conservation of Glass Objects with Stephen Koob
27 Feb – 28 Feb
Integrated Pest Management – a two session virtual course with Jane Thompson Webb and David Pinniger
30 Apr – 1 May
Merry Christmas
All of us at International Academic Projects send you season’s greetings and our best wishes to you for the holidays!
2023 wrapped
Watercolours course with Joyce Townsend in Edinburgh
Thank you to everybody who participated in the course on 3rd October. We are grateful to the National Galleries of Scotland to have hosted this course and to Joyce Townsend for sharing your vast experience and knowledge.
Participants learned about materials, painting processes, examination methods, analytical techniques. light sensitivity, colour measurement and microfading.
We had the rare chance to take advantage of the Vaughan Bequest of Turner watercolours while they are in the conservation studio and unframed.
Autumn 2023
We have a number of exciting courses and seminars coming this Autumn, please see below. We will announce more once we have further details.
Watercolours 1750s-1860s: Materials, Techniques & Light Sensitivity
National Gallery of Scotland
Tuesday, 3 October 2023 at 09:30 BST
Investigating Blue Pigments on Medieval Manuscripts
Virtual seminar
Thursday, 12 October 2023 at 15:00 BST
Conservation and Care of Japanese Textiles
Virtual seminar
Thursday, 26 October 2023 at 15:00 BST
Recovery and Conservation of Objects from Marine Environments
Virtual seminar
Thursday, 2 November 2023 at 15:00 GMT
Hazards in Collections- two session virtual course
Virtual course
Wednesday, 8 November & Thursday 9 November 2023 at 09:00 GMT
Paraloid B-72 – an adhesive for ceramic, glass and other materials
Virtual seminar
Thursday, 9 November 2023 at 15:00 GMT
Hydrogels – Matt Cushman in Scotland
Two weeks of learning about Hydrogels with Matt Cushman in Edinburgh and Glasgow have come to an end. A big thank you to all the participants!
Thank you also to the wonderful teams at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and of the Kelvin Centre for Conservation at the University of Glasgow!
Coming in 2023
We have a lot of new exciting seminars and courses planned for 2023!
Some of the seminars can already be found on our website now. There will also be some more in-person courses again in the UK and USA. Our enews subscribers will be informed first once we have all the details.
Season’s Greetings
All of us at IAP send you Season’s Greetings, merry Christmas, happy Hanukkah and our best wishes to you for the holidays and the New Year!
Thank you to all the tutors and every participant who joined us to further their interest/studies within the field of conservation. We hope to see you again at our series of new seminars and courses we are planning starting in January 2023.
Office closure
Our office building has now closed. We are therefore unable to answer phone calls, you can continue to reach us by email at info@academicprojects.co.uk
