From New York City to the Adirondack foothills, 2016 grants will support conservation needs of the many types of artifacts typically found in art and history museums and historical societies throughout New York State, including a"friendship" quilt, a circular bas relief in cast plaster, an early 19th century 4-wheeled horse-drawn carriage, Eliza Jumel's French secretaire à abbatant desk, two 1916 carrousel horses, a wedding dress bodice and skirt ensemble, a selection of works of art on paper, lithographs, paintings on canvas and decorative arts.

Grants are awarded for prioritized, urgently needed conservation of objects that, once treated, will impact public interpretive programs, exhibitions and education. Non-profit organizations with stewardship responsibility for cultural collections, (but without in-house conservation staff) were eligible applicants; state or federally owned collections are ineligible for support. Grant funding can treat paintings, works on paper, textiles, furniture, sculpture, ethnographic, historical and decorative objects, and may also support accompanying professional treatment of frames, supports, stands and mounts if integral to the final public presentation of the object, after conservation.

Greater Hudson Heritage Network strives to provide support for conservation treatments that are executed on the highest professional level. The field of conservation is continually changing, with pioneering research and dissemination of findings on innovative materials and techniques. Although there are many paths into the field of conservation, we acknowledge practitioners who have demonstrated high levels of proficiency and advanced knowledge, adherence to the ethics and standards of the American Institute of Conservation (AIC), and are recognized for their expertise in the museum field. In 2016's grants, treatment will be provided by 33 individual conservators.

This year 53 grant applications were received at Greater Hudson Heritage Network from institutions from 32 counties in New York State, requesting an aggregate of $310,756.43 in grant support. In all, requests were made for the treatment of 147 objects of which 20 organizational awards totaling $89,777.00 were recommended by a peer panel of conservators, curators, and museum professionals. Of the 20 institutions that received funding, 16 received full funding and 4 received partial funding. 2016 Conservation Treatment Grant awards range from $1,438.00 to $7,500.00.

Of the 53 applicant institutions, twenty-five had budgets under $300,000, had thirteen budgets over $300,000 but below $1 million and fifteen organizations had general operating budgets over $1 million. Organizational operating budgets of 2016's grant recipients span a stunning range from $15,400 to $43 million. 

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