• 8.21.24
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Adirondack Experience Receives $145,653 IMLS Grant for Drawing Conservation

Blue Mountain Lake, NY – Adirondack Experience, The Museum on Blue Mountain Lake (ADKX), has received a $145,653 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Museums for America program. The Museums for America program supports museums of all sizes and disciplines in strategic, project-based efforts to serve the public through exhibitions, educational/interpretive programs, digital learning resources, professional development, community debate and dialogue, audience-focused studies, and/or collections management, curation, care, and conservation. With this grant, the ADKX can begin to conserve 139 drawings (created between 1850-1926) from its collection over the next two years (2024-2026). This is the first phase of a long-term initiative with a total cost approaching $750,000. Later phases will ultimately involve treating an additional 446 drawings in the years 2026-2030. 

The first phase of conservation will focus on the drawings most urgently in need of treatment as identified by outside conservator, the Williamstown Art Conservation Center (WACC). Some of the artists whose work will be conserved in phase one include Seneca Ray Stoddard, Verplanck Colvin, Louis Kahn, Arto Monaco, Arpad Gerster, and Eliphalet Terry. Phase two conservation efforts will include works by artists such as Winslow Homer, William Trost Richards, Rockwell Kent, and John Frederick Kensett. 

“We are thrilled to have secured this IMLS grant to begin a much needed conservation project of our drawings collection and look forward to working with WACC on this multi-phase plan,” said ADKX Executive Director David Kahn.