As the ethics of the conservation field evolve, it has become increasingly important that we question what we are conserving, how, and for whom. Join Anya Dani, Director of Community Engagement and Inclusive Practice/Lecturer at the UCLA/Getty Interdepartmental Program in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage, as she discusses her efforts to create a decolonial, community-based framework for conservation in both Okinawa, Japan, and California. If our ultimate goal is the preservation of cultural heritage, then a more expansive view of conservation is needed to best serve the needs of diverse communities.
Speaker Anya Dani is an objects conservator with more than 20 years of experience working in the cultural heritage sector. She is currently the Director of Community Engagement and Inclusive Practice, Lecturer at the UCLA/Getty Interdepartmental Program in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage.
This March 23 lecture in Calderwood Hall at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum begins at 7 pm. The lecture is the annual George L. Stout Memorial Lecture, held each year in honor of George L. Stout, the Museum’s Director from 1955 – 1970 and a founder of modern art conservation. Free for Museum members, $20 nonmembers, $18 Seniors, $13 Students, Children 7 – 17 free. Register at https://tnew.gardnermuseum.org/30900/30901
