Hi TSG – ers

The schedule for AIC's 46th Annual Meeting, “Material Matters 2018”, Houston, Texas, May 29 through June 2, 2018, has been posted. Registration is open and currently pricing at Regular Registration Rates thru March 5, 2018. Registration pricing can be found here http://www.conservation-us.org/annual-meeting/aic-annual-meeting/register. If you know you are going to attend the meeting but unsure of sessions, workshops and receptions you want to attend, go ahead and register for the meeting, you can always add more events to your meeting schedule at a later date.

The list of Textile sessions for the 2018 meeting can be found here, https://aics46thannualmeeting2018.sched.com/overview/type/Specialty+Session/Textiles. This year TSG is combining efforts with both RATS and WAG to bring you some exciting sessions, RATS / TSG (Thursday afternoon) and WAG / TSG (Saturday afternoon). Don’t miss this unique opportunity to hear presenters who will combine topics that span these different groups.

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RATS, WAG and TSG will also be combining for our evening reception to be held on Thursday May 31^st. We have been able to book our evening event at Houston’s Project Row Houses, newly restored historic night club’s Eldorado Ballroom. The building built in 1939 by renowned Houston architect Lenard Gabert and owned by African-American businesswoman Anna Dupree (1892-1977), who wanted to establish a community entertainment venue for black social clubs and other groups in Houston’s Third Ward. Before it closed in the early 1970s, the Eldorado hosted countless blues and jazz performances, such as Houston-born musicians Sam “Lightning” Hopkins and internationally known jazz and bluesmen B.B. King. In 1999, the Eldorado Ballroom was gifted to Project Row Houses. After four years of renovations, the Eldorado re-opened in May 2003. Walking tours and opening art studio tours will be offered to those interested prior to the Reception. Further information about the pre-reception events will be available after February 1^st, https://aics46thannualmeeting2018.sched.com/event/Cz4s/rats-tsg-and-wag-joint-reception. 

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More information to follow on all the events happening at Material Matters 2018, Houston. Hope to see all of you there.

Melanie D Sanford

TSG Program Chair