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Washington Conservation Guild The Washington Conservation Guild is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization of conservation professionals dedicated to preserving art and historic materials.

Please join the Washington Conservation Guild for the 2nd gathering of the 2026/2027 Season! 🏛️🍂We will be meeting at th...
09/22/2026

Please join the Washington Conservation Guild for the 2nd gathering of the 2026/2027 Season! 🏛️🍂

We will be meeting at the National Building Museum for tours and a lecture on the Preservation of their Northwestern Terra Cotta Collection. The collections department is currently working on a digitization and cataloging project for their Northwestern Terra Cotta collection of architectural drawings. Their team of collections managers and catalogers will provide tours of storage and will talk about the history of the terra cotta company and industry in America, provenance of the collection, digitization, cataloging and conservation findings, concerns and solutions.

This event is free for WCG members and $10 for non-members.Please contact [email protected]
if you need to check your membership status.

Would you, or someone you know, like to volunteer with us?New WCG Board Members are needed to help share responsibilitie...
09/16/2026

Would you, or someone you know, like to volunteer with us?

New WCG Board Members are needed to help share responsibilities of the organization.

~ Emerging professionals who serve on the WCG Board receive free membership~

Interested?
Email [email protected]

Silk Level Sponsor $200+Julia Brennan has been a WCG member since 1988 and served on the board multiple times in various...
09/16/2026

Silk Level Sponsor $200+

Julia Brennan has been a WCG member since 1988 and served on the board multiple times in various capacities. Her Washington, DC based company, Caring For Textiles, offers a range of textile treatments, display, installations, storage, assessments, and survey work for institutions, historical sites, and private clients.

Visit caringfortextiles.com to learn more.

Emerging Professionals it’s that time of the year! The Williston memorial fund applications are open now until September...
08/24/2026

Emerging Professionals it’s that time of the year! The Williston memorial fund applications are open now until September 20th at 5pm. Up to 5 applicants will be chosen to receive free WCG membership, reimbursement for AIC membership fees, and reduced membership for WCG sponsored workshops (among other networking opportunities).

Applications will be accepted via google form- linktree in our bio, and will be made available via membership email and on our website.

For more information about the Williston Fund, please visit our website at https://washingtonconservationguild.org/williston-fund/.

Please join the Washington Conservation Guild in welcoming the 2026/2027 season with our first gathering of the year at ...
08/14/2026

Please join the Washington Conservation Guild in welcoming the 2026/2027 season with our first gathering of the year at Peirce Mill in Rock Creek Park on Saturday, September 12th from 3-4:30pm.

This is a free tour for WCG members only. RSVP is required to attend, link sent through email. RSVP deadline September 4th 2026.

Please contact [email protected] if you need to check your membership status. 2026/2027 WCG season memberships are $35 for professionals, $25 for renewing emerging professionals, and free to emerging professionals who are entering their first season as a WCG member.

Join or renew at www.washingtonconservationguild.org/membership

For more information about this season’s meeting, please visit http://washingtonconservationguild.org/meeting-schedule-2026-2027-season/

Hello all and welcome to the 2026/2027 WCG season ☀️
08/14/2026

Hello all and welcome to the 2026/2027 WCG season ☀️

Please join us at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) Arlington for our final meeting of the 2025/2026 season! ☀️MoCA ...
05/08/2026

Please join us at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) Arlington for our final meeting of the 2025/2026 season! ☀️

MoCA Arlington is ADA compliant and wheelchair accessible, please use the elevator entrance on the parking lot side of the building.

MoCA Arlington will keep their Chairmen and Smith + Meyer galleries open for WCG attendees to enjoy the James Stephen Terrell: Take Me to the Water and Within Reach: Artists & the Built Environment exhibits.

Members receive 1 free raffle ticket; early renewals, starting April 14 for the 2026/2027 season, receive 1 free raffle ticket. See Raffle Prize Document for more details. Members are welcome to donate raffle prizes. Tickets can be used to win a wide variety of prizes including:

>District Clay Center ceramics 🫖
>Stainless Steel Measuring Cups and Spoons 🥄
>Hopi wicker basket craft kit
>Woobles craft kits
(And more)

A huge thank you to those who have donated to the raffle! Proceeds from the raffle sales support WCG programming and the Williston Fund.

Members: Free | Non-members: $10 or Free if you join/renew starting April 14 for the 2026/2027 season

Join or renew at www.washingtonconservationguild.org/membership/

This past Saturday, our members had a great time learning about the art (and science) of natural dyeing 💛 With the wonde...
04/02/2026

This past Saturday, our members had a great time learning about the art (and science) of natural dyeing 💛 With the wonderful instructor Fatima Janneh , we created yellow bandanas using marigold flower extract.

🌼 Marigolds are rich in natural pigments that release warm yellow and orange tones when simmered. Applying our own creative tying styles, we soaked the prepped cotton fabric (prepped through a process called mordanting to help the color bind) in the marigold bath and watched each piece transform into something unique ✨

It was a morning filled with hands-on fun and a deeper connection to natural materials. A big thank you to our host and treasurer Kaitlyn Munro Seymour for providing a space where we could be creative and a little messy!

This was a Washington Conservation Guild member event: Natural Dye Workshop, 2025-2026 season

Please join the Washington Conservation Guild for the 4th in-person meeting of the 2025/2026 Season for our Emerging Pro...
03/20/2026

Please join the Washington Conservation Guild for the 4th in-person meeting of the 2025/2026 Season for our Emerging Professionals Talk. The meeting will be held on April 2nd at Folger Shakespeare Library from 5-7pm with a social hour from 5-6pm. This is a free in-person meeting for WCG members. Since space is limited, RSVP is required to attend. RSVP closes March 30th. https://forms.gle/v4nHvxvKUpgWizMx8. For more information about this season’s meetings, please visit our website linked in our bio. Excited to see you there!

Fatima Janneh is a Gambian-American interdisciplinary, textile artist and instructor. She works primarily within the Wes...
03/06/2026

Fatima Janneh is a Gambian-American interdisciplinary, textile artist and instructor. She works primarily within the West African natural dye tradition. In this workshop, participants will work with 100% cotton bandanas and ground marigold flowers to learn and practice a variety of dye techniques. Members will leave with working knowledge of the ins and outs of the natural dye process as well as their own one of a kind hand dyed bandana. This event is held outdoors, please wear clothing that you don’t mind getting dirty and is appropriate to the climate. More about the instructor: www.Fatimaknits.com and IG:

>This workshop will be free for 2025/2026 WCG Williston recipients and it costs $5 for all other WCG members. Registration fees cover supplies and snacks.
>The workshop is open to WCG members who RSVP here: https://forms.gle/Bdf9x6a2UoJnWY8u8

Once your membership status is verified (2025/2026 season), our Member Events Coordinator will send a payment link. The first 13 WCG members to submit payment will be registered for the event, and they will be provided with the workshop location; any remaining RSVPs will be kept on a waitlist.

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