Events › Caring for Your Photos

This one-day, hands-on workshop will introduce the tools and materials used to care for photographs. In addition to a lecture on common photographic processes and the factors that contribute to photograph degradation, you will be invited to bring a selection of your own photographs to share, organize, and house using provided archival materials. Digitization and digital storage options will be discussed.

This program is presented by The Midwest Art Conservation Center (MACC) in partnership with the Minnesota Historical & Cultural Heritage Grants Program. This series of free workshops aims to strengthen capacity to serve collection caretakers in Minnesota, specifically through targeted educational programs that build skills for our communities and enhance the resilience and longevity of our cultural resources. The workshop is open to both the general public and stewards of cultural heritage collections.

Tours of the Hennepin County Library Special Collections department's photograph collections will be offered during the mid-day break.

Registration for Caring for Your Photos is limited to residents of Minnesota.

About the presenters:

Nicole Grabow is the Director of Preventive Conservation at the Midwest Art Conservation Center. A trained Objects and Preventive Conservator with over 20 years of experience, Grabow works with the collection caretakers from hundreds of nonprofit organizations to advance preservation efforts and enhance the level of collections care in the Midwest region and beyond. She holds a Master of Science degree from the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation and is a Fellow of the American Institute for Conservation.

Olivia Vang Thanadabout is MACC's Preventive Conservation Educator. Thanadabout is dedicated to making conservation knowledge more accessible to all by facilitating workshops and collaborative, community-led conservation. Thanadabout has completed a Collaborative Conservation Mellon Fellowship at MACC and an internship at the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies. She was recently accepted into the Garman Art Conservation Department’s class of 2028 at Buffalo State University.