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The work of art, architectural and archeological conservators is frequently covered in commercial media like The New Yorker, Atlantic, New York Times, LA Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal. Yet only a handful of conservators have been actively writing our stories for general audiences. That is changing now, and this panel aims to show some of the strategies that some practitioners are using to communicate our ideas. The goal of such writing is to bring visibility to our profession and to ensure that what is told about us is accurate as well as interesting. In popular media we tend to be depicted as either basement-dwelling nitpickers or Indiana Jones style swashbucklers. But the true elegance of our work, the mindset that goes into our commitments to doing no harm and protecting work for the future, as well as how our approach to repair can be a metaphor for other ways to live in the world, is rarely seen in writing about conservation done by others. This panel will show current writing by five practitioners who regularly promote conservation to general audiences. Each will read from something they have written and describe their goals and approach to writing. Then we will open it to the audience for conversation and discussion. The goal of the panel is to spur our community to more writing and more communication with the world at large.
