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Congratulations to the PPFA for this terrific initiative!
PPFA Australia is moving closer to working with the Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Materials (AICCM) in providing a combined service to preserving movable cultural heritage in private ownership.
More movable cultural heritage exists in the private domain than all the nation's major collections houses ie museums, galleries, etc combined, yet very little attention is given to preserving this valuable resource by Federal and State governments.
This task is left to individual associations such as the PPFA working with other professionals in the field such as AICCM.
PPFA has been instrumental in creating the Cultural Heritage Preservation Foundation (www.culturalheritage.net.au).
However, if individual members of society are to take action to preserve the heritage in their possession, associations such as PPFA must provide the resources to preserve heritage when owners are seeking help.
In order to develop a large base of qualified preservation picture framers, PPFA has moved to encourage many in the framing industry to obtain the required qualifications. In a small way to achieve this objective, Quentin Webster (MCPF®) and Cathy Webster (CPF®) in Canberra have been running fortnightly classes to framers interested in improving the knowledge of preservation framing and sitting the CPF exam later in the year.
At no cost to the class attendees, the classes have focussed on topics essential to CPF exam requirements.
To date five workshops have been completed with preservation framing of objects is still to be covered before moving onto classes on CPF exam preparation.
Hopefully these classes will lead to more framers with appropriate preservation framing qualifications to enable PPFA to meet some of its commitments when serving Australian society in preserving movable cultural heritage.
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