Wonderful news! With COVID numbers down and the weather warming up, we will be holding the usual VCA Spring Field Trip, in person! We would like to invite you to join us on May 7th at 10am for a tour of Fort Monroe and the Casemate Museum. The tour will include a look into the storage facilities and preventative measures taken by staff, a tour of the fort, and possibly a peek into the archaeological lab. The tour will last for 2 hours, so bring your comfortable walking shoes!

Wonderful news! With COVID numbers down and the weather warming up, we will be holding the usual VCA Spring Field Trip, in person! We would like to invite you to join us on May 7th at 10am for a tour of Fort Monroe and the Casemate Museum. The tour will include a look into the storage facilities and preventative measures taken by staff, a tour of the fort, and possibly a peek into the archaeological lab. The tour will last for 2 hours, so bring your comfortable walking shoes!

Please join us on March 17th at 6:30 PM on Zoom for the March member’s meeting and some St. Patrick’s Day fun! For the meeting presentation, Kate Ridgway will be presenting on her recent work at the DHR unearthing time capsules. The time capsules date to 1887 and were buried underneath the statue of Robert E. Lee in Richmond. Join us as Kate discusses the complexities of opening a time capsule on live-stream and future plans for the objects.

Just a reminder that the second January meeting is this week, Thursday January 27th at 6pm. The meeting will feature past VCA President Katherine Ridgway discussing options for VCA reorganization. So please come and express your thoughts and ideas about how to move forward with the VCA!

We would like to invite you to attend the 2nd annual VCA Virtual Holiday Trivia on Tuesday December 14th, at 6pm.

Just a reminder that the next VCA meeting is less than one week away! We will be meeting virtually (Please contact Laurie and Jennifer for Zoom link: membership at virginiaconservationassociation.org) on Thursday, November 18th at 6:30 pm.

So excited to see you all again soon. We wanted to let you know that due to some scheduling conflicts, the first meeting of the year will be Oct 5. at 6pm. Apologies for not holding the members meeting in September as usual, but we went with a date that best suited the speaker. The meeting will be held via Zoom.

The September 2021 Newsletter can be found here.

Please join us this Thursday, May 20th at 6:30pm for our final virtual meeting of the season! This will be held again via Zoom (link below) and we’ll get started right at 6:30pm. We will be having a lab tour from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts followed by a business meeting to announce the new board members for next year.

As a special event to finish this all-virtual year for the VCA, we thought we’d host something a bit more social. As you may have already read in the newsletter, VCA will be hosting a Virtual Craft Night on Wednesday June 30, 7pm.

The May 2021 VCA Newsletter is now available online here.

This is a reminder that we will be holding the rescheduled March meeting tomorrow, April 28th at 6:30pm, which can be accessed via Zoom.

The March 2021 Newsletter is now available here.

Sadly, VCA member Rick Vogt’s wife has passed away. Our deepest sympathies to Rick and his family.

The January 2021 VCA Newsletter is now available here.

The Washington Conservation Guild invites you to a panel discussion on the ethics of preserving Confederate monuments and the obligations of preservation professionals in addressing the needs of various community stakeholders.

Don’t forget to register for Helping Hands!

The deadline to register for Helping Hands is quickly approaching! Our Helping Hands program this month allows social distancing, so get ready to get out there and help out a local community!

Just a reminder that our first meeting of the season is this Thursday, September 17th at 6pm. We will be hosting the meeting on Zoom, which will allow us to have a business meeting as well as a presentation. The presentation is by Gretchen Guidess, entitled “Collaborative Reconstruction: Exhibiting a Loose Cover for an Easy Chair” You can find a full description in the VCA Newsletter!

In an effort to do our part during this current health crisis, the VCA membership meeting scheduled for next week has been cancelled. We will keep the membership updated if we are able to reschedule our speaker. It is unclear how this situation will affect the VCA planning meeting in April. Keep an eye out for more emails and check our Facebook page for information as well. Please everyone stay safe!