APOYOnline – the Association for Heritage Preservation of the Americas – is excited to continue the series of fundraising events “APOYOnline & Friends: A Masterclass Series” to support our scholarship funds for students and emerging professionals.
This series of intimate classes will include virtual discussions and opportunities for one-on-one question and answer with heritage preservation experts. The classes will be up to three hours in length, under 30 participants, with the content and format developed by each expert. Each class will be presented in the native language of the expert with instructional material provided in Spanish, English, and Portuguese, as needed.
Attendees will be encouraged to attend the classes with cameras open and to engage in active discussions with the expert.
Metais Modernos do patrimônio cultural: caracterização e conservação with Virginia Costa on Saturday, October 19th, 2024 from 10am-12:30pm EST (USA). This exciting Masterclass will provide practical information on the conservation of artifacts made from so-called ‘modern’ metals, such as aluminum, stainless steel, and metallic coatings, often poses a challenge due to the lack of accessible technical literature that provides a proper understanding of these materials’ nature. This knowledge is crucial for accurately characterizing the artifact, both in terms of its identity and its conservation state. This course aims to emphasize the importance of preliminary characterization of artifacts for their long-term conservation through the presentation of technical aspects of some of these materials and case studies.
Virginia Costa: Metallurgical engineer from UFRGS (Brazil) and PhD in Materials Science from TU-Berlin (Germany), specializing in the conservation of metal cultural heritage. She has worked as an independent consultant for various institutions, including the Musée du Louvre (Paris), Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienna), English Heritage (London), Museu Paulista, and the Museum of Contemporary Art (São Paulo). A guest scholar at ICCROM (Rome) and Getty Museum (Los Angeles), she has published numerous articles on the characterization, treatment, and preventive conservation of cultural metals, as well as a book, “Modern Metals in Cultural Heritage” (Getty Conservation Institute, 2019).
The masterclass will be offered in Portuguese, with simultaneous translation if necessary.
