Kerith Koss Schrager

Preserving history one object at a time. Objects Conservator | Crafter | Baker | Small business owner | Health and safety nut.

[Kerith Koss Schrager @thefoundobject]

We are thrilled to have received a grant from the @NEHgov to survey and conserve our plastics collection. While complicated in any museum collection, plastics at the @Sept11Memorial, particularly those used or recovered from Ground Zero, pose complex preservation concerns.

[National Endowment for the Humanities @NEHgov]

NEH Announces $34.79 Million for 97 Humanities Projects https://t.co/jSavlRBNzX

[Kerith Koss Schrager @thefoundobject]

Got Drugs? [in your Museum collection]. Excited to attend American Industrial Hygiene Association @AIHA #AIHAConnect to present on my thesis work conducting a hazard assessment of the inventory of a historic apothecary collection at @ShelburneMuseum

[Kerith Koss Schrager @thefoundobject]

It's #WorldMentalHealthDay and @conservators Health & Safety Network mental health working group is excited to announce our upcoming webinar on research related to mental health concerns among cultural heritage workers. #MentalHealthMatters #totalworkerhealth #artconservation

[C2C Care @C2CCare]

FREE C2C Care Webinar October 17, 2024 1pm ET: The State of Mental Health for Workers at Cultural Heritage Institutions panelists will present the findings on mental health in the field of conservation and the wider museum worker community. To register: https://t.co/se5fFPdKUt

[Kerith Koss Schrager @thefoundobject]

Honored to once again support and bear witness for those who come to the @Sept11Memorial and museum each year for healing and remembrance. #NeverForget911 #RememberTheSky

[Kerith Koss Schrager @thefoundobject]

It's the start of a new school year (!), which means it's a difficult time to teach about the impact of 9/11 to a generation of students who now have no lived memory. The @Sept11Memorial is here to support teachers with our Digital Learning Experince.
#911Museum
#NeverForget911

[9/11 Memorial & Museum @Sept11Memorial]

Want to teach your students about 9/11 but don’t know where to start? Our Education team can help. Register for our free Digital Learning Experience, a film highlighting first-person accounts of the attacks and their aftermath, and connect with #911Museum staff in real time through an interactive live chat. Available on demand beginning 9/11. Register for free today: https://t.co/zDi9OZPEON

[Kerith Koss Schrager @thefoundobject]

@Conservators_UK #icon24 was a great line-up on thought-provoking topics on #conservationforchange! We were honored to have Kate present on our conservation initiatives to help people engage with trauma heritage.

[Icon - The Institute of Conservation @Conservators_UK]

The last presentation of 'icon24 Session 6 - by Kate Fuget. Kate's talk explored preservation practice as a method of community engagement with traumatic history.

Kate prepared the talk together with Kerith Schrager, who sadly couldn't come today.

#conservationforchange

[Icon - The Institute of Conservation @Conservators_UK]

The last presentation of 'icon24 Session 6 - by Kate Fuget. Kate's talk explored preservation practice as a method of community engagement with traumatic history.

Kate prepared the talk together with Kerith Schrager, who sadly couldn't come today.

#conservationforchange

[Kerith Koss Schrager @thefoundobject]

@thecwordpodcast Thanks for having us! Always excited to talk about health and safety ❤️

[Kerith Koss Schrager @thefoundobject]

Excited to be joining @thecwordpodcast once again to discuss health & safety issues for conservators along with my ECP colleague Adrienne Gendron.

[The C Word @thecwordpodcast]

New ECP takeover episode!

- Liz, Phedra and Alexis share their story as ‘newly emerged’ professionals.

- Kerith Koss Schrager & Adrienne Gendron share thoughts on the importance of H&S for ECPs

- #DearJane: getting into unusual specialisms.

[Kerith Koss Schrager @thefoundobject]

Just published! Our article looking back (and forward) at preservation strategies @Sept11Memorial. #memorialmuseum #heritagepreservation #artconservation

[Kerith Koss Schrager @thefoundobject]

#Hazardouscollections can be displayed safely if you have resources. Was happy to discuss exposure assessments in museums with @__katrinarenee

[New York Times World @nytimesworld]

A popular taxidermy exhibit in Sioux Falls, S.D., was closed after arsenic was discovered laced throughout the specimens. Many local residents lament the loss of the “works of art.” https://t.co/TyxmpQkHs7

[Mike Bloomberg @MikeBloomberg]

We will #NeverForget911 - and honoring that promise has never been more important.

Join me in supporting the @Sept11Memorial’s The Never Forget Fund by making a contribution. Donate before midnight on 9/11 and I will triple your donation. https://t.co/Y6H2BUmv1L

[Conserv @TeamConserv]

We have an upcoming AMA (Ask Me Anything) on occupational health and safety for cultural heritage workers with AMA Kerith Koss Schrager, Head of Conservation at @Sept11Memorial. https://t.co/JhE0Sj84M2

Don't miss it!

[9/11 Memorial & Museum @Sept11Memorial]

Serving as heritage stewards and ensuring we #neverforget the events and victims of 9/11 involves everyday preservation of the objects and artifacts in our collection. Protecting their integrity will always remain central to our ability to safeguard the 9/11 legacy and allow new generations to experience and learn its stories.

In honor of #PreservationMonth and #InternationalMuseumDay, here’s a #BTS look at some of the care we invest in protecting these irreplaceable assets.

After the Last Column was discovered during the rescue and recovery efforts at Ground Zero, workers and volunteers began leaving markings, mementos, flowers, decals, pictures, and more to honor those killed on 9/11. Agency members also began spray painting the Column to tabulate how many of their co-workers had fallen that day. Because of the variety of memorial interactions with the Column, all the items attached to and inscribed on present a variety of preservation issues. Here you see #911Museum Collections and Conservation staff working together to fully document the current condition of these tributes so as to more effectively monitor for any changes over time. The goal is to preserve the accumulated messages and materials that contribute to the Last Column’s authenticity and impact as an ensemble artifact.

[9/11 Memorial & Museum @Sept11Memorial]

Here’s an inside look at a very special Tuesday task when the #911Museum is closed: the delicate maintenance of the 2,983 squares of the Spencer Finch art installation "Trying to Remember the Color of the Sky on that September Morning" in Memorial Hall.

[9/11 Memorial & Museum @Sept11Memorial]

When the #911Museum is closed on Tuesdays, the Collections Dep. cares for the artifacts & exhibitions on display in the galleries. Here's a BTS look at our Tuesday-scheduled activities as conservators inspect a section of the original Slurry Wall in Foundation Hall.

[Kerith Koss Schrager @thefoundobject]

@ArtsWestchester thanks for the great write up! @RPArenstein @EugenieMilroy

[ArtsWestchester @ArtsWestchester]

ArtsNews visits two art conservation teams for an inside look at the intensive and extensive work of an art conservator.

[Read more in #ArtsNews]
"Art Conservation: From Mummies to Hornets’ Nests"
https://t.co/PM1s2XVdxH

Read the full issue at https://t.co/d1cy2LvRn5

[Kerith Koss Schrager @thefoundobject]

If you missed our presentation at #AICmtg2021 on effects of both hazardous materials and emotional trauma on preservation policy you can catch the recording later this week in the Collection Care Network session #hazardouscollections #preservationisabias #worldtradecenterdust

[Kerith Koss Schrager @thefoundobject]

Thanks @ArtsWestchester for a lovely profile on our new studio space! Feels like home already 🎉
with @RPArenstein, @EugenieMilroy, and Anne King

https://t.co/c7xOMbEGKQ

[Kerith Koss Schrager @thefoundobject]

Proud to have contributed to this great initiative. @AIHA has just added a guidance document for reopening Museums and Collection Institutions as part of their Back to Work Safely website.
https://t.co/Fw61HLHpFA