EDUCATION

Camille Myers Breeze is an internationally known textile conservation educator and author. One of the missions of Museum Textile Services is to educate museum professionals, volunteers, students, and the public on issues related to textiles, conservation, archaeology, and museum studies. Please contact Camille if you would like her to speak or teach a workshop at your institution.




Special fund-raising lectures can help raise money for your conservation project. We can create a presentation for your Board or the public that places your historic textiles in the spotlight and educates donors on what their support will accomplish.

Camille Myers Breeze travels to Peru every January to teach a Pre-Columbian Textile Conservation Workshop. She founded this program to foster collaboration between American and Peruvian archaeologists and conservators.
See photos at http://www.flickr.com/photos/patina_green/sets/.

More about Peru

2010 Ancient Peruvian Textiles Workshop
Date: January 12-22
Location: Lima , Peru
Cost: $1300 per person

Museum Textile Services is pleased to announce that the 2010 Ancient Peruvian Textiles Workshop will take place from January 12-22 in Lima , Peru. The theme of the workshop is Animal Iconography. We will document, conserve and mount pre-Columbian textiles from the collection of the Huaca Huallamarca Museum and Huaca Malena Museum. Prior to the start of classes we will make a three-day excursion down the South Coast to see animal-related sites in Nazca and Paracas including the Nazca lines and the Islas Ballestas.
 
This course is geared toward museum professionals and others with museum sensibilities and excellent hand skills who want to learn about textile conservation and pre-Columbian cultures while visiting Peru . Past students have included conservators from all disciplines, archaeologists, weavers, historians, and textile aficionados ranging in age from college students to retirees. To see photos from past years please visit   http://www.flickr.com/photos/patina_green/sets/ .  
 
The course cost is $1300 per person. This includes up to eleven nights of double-occupancy accommodation, ground transportation, tuition, and guides. Single rooms may be available upon request at a higher cost. This fee does not including airfare to and from Peru , return transportation to the airport after the course, lunches, or dinners. All Peruvian students will receive a scholarship for free tuition.   
 
Please email Camille Myers Breeze at   mtsworkshops@gmail.com   for an application form or for more information. The deadline for receipt of applications is October 15, 2009.

We recently taught a very successful workshop at the Intermuseum Conservation Association

Read about our workshop at the Woodlawn Museum in Ellsworth, Maine here (PDF)

Our series of workshops for the Denison Homestead is described here

Museum Textile Services
PO Box 5004
Andover, MA 01810
978-474-9200