October is Virginia Archives Month! The 2025 Virginia Archives Month theme is Oh Snap! Photography in the Archives. This webinar is on Conserving, Preserving and More: How to Care for Photographs Sarah Casto, the photograph and paper conservator at the Ohio State University Libraries, shares her expertise on caring for photographs, discusses her experience as a photo conservator and offer dos and don’ts for caring for your own photographs - including information about identification, storage, la

🔍 Take a peek inside VMFA's Conservation Lab... 🖼️ The Goode Center for Advanced Study in Art Conservation is home to our Conservation Department—an integral piece of VMFA’s mission to collect, preserve, exhibit, and interpret art. ❓ Our conservators want to hear what questions you have for them. Ask away in the comments or our Conservation highlight on Instagram, and we'll share our conservators' answers on Ask A Conservator Day, Tue, Nov 4! ➡️ Visit the following link to learn more about Con

Several Minnesotans works are now on display the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s new exhibit “State Fairs: Growing American Craft.” Front and center is the promotional image: A crop art work by Minneapolis artist Liz Schreiber. Schreiber grew up in Virginia going to the museums and said, “I kind of flipped out when I got this email.” The Smithsonian visited the Minnesota State Fair in 2023 while Schreiber’s commemorative art piece was on display. They later commissioned her to make the piece w