Thursday, October 24, 2019
6:00 pm to 7:00 pm

Michigan Central Terminal, image courtesy of Jablonski Building Conservation

We're trying something different!  Please join us for our next event via video conferencing on Art or Awful: Preservation and Conservation of Graffiti presented by Stephanie Hoagland, Principal at Jablonski Building Conservation.

Stephanie will be presenting at SGH's office in NYC.  You can join us at SGH's office, satellite locations at Goody Clancy's office in Boston or Upstate Masonry Institute in Albany, or simply login to your personal computer or mobile device.  We encourage everyone to join us in person or virtually!

Graffiti comes in many different forms: from carving in stone, spray paint on a brick wall, marker on a marble statue, pencil on walls, etching on glass, to stickers on everything.  The National Park Service has two documents related to the removal of graffiti but information and guidelines on the preservation of graffiti is scarce.  Papers have been presented on the conservation of murals and graffiti-style street art, but what about graffiti that was created just as an act of defacement?

Graffiti exists in our public places, our communities, and our streets.  It can be thoughtful, crude, political, humorous, simple, artistic, territorial, offensive, creative, or a combination of these.  Can conservators work together to create guidelines and standards for the preservation and conservation of graffiti?  Or is it like many issues of conservation where the answer is "it depends"?

This presentation will outline several graffiti-related projects including the preservation of pencil graffiti on wallpaper in a museum, protection and conservation treatments to a spray-painted graffiti mural in a previously industrial neighborhood, and the removal of offensive graffiti from the side of a church.  Each project requires us to stop and think about the consequences of removal versus preservation. 

Event Leader- Stephanie Hoagland

Stephanie Hoagland joined Jablonski Building Conservation, Inc. in 2003 and became a Principal in 2012.  She works with a wide range of clients, with a focus on condition assessments and finishes investigations, as well as hands-on conservation treatments for stone, wallpaper, and paint.  She is a regular presenter at numerous industry associations and conferences, and a Fellow of and Past Chair of the Architecture Specialty Group of AIC.

Details & Logistics:

• Cost: Complimentary
• Event time: 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm.  Those attending in NYC, Boston, and Albany are asked to arrive at 5:30 pm
• AIA Credits: 1.0 CEU (pending)
• Light refreshments will be served at the NYC, Boston, and Albany locations.

Location

The meeting will be held both virtually and in three locations:

• Virtual meeting will be held using Zoom.  Log-in information will be distributed to all registrants the week of the meeting. 
• New York City, NY- SGH's Office, 550 Seventh Avenue, 10th Floor, NY, NY (50 attendees only)
• Boston, MA- Goody Clancy, 420 Boylston Street, 2nd Floor, Boston, MA (30 attendees only)
• Albany, NY- Upstate Masonry Institute, 6 Airline Drive, Albany, NY 12205