About the Guild
Founded in 1974 and incorporated as a non-profit in 1981, BAACG has served as a networking organization, educational resource, and community-builder for art conservators and allied professionals in the greater San Francisco Bay Area for over 50 years!
Grateful for Our Generous Venues
Mission Statement
"The aim of the Bay Area Art Conservation Guild is to improve knowledge of all subjects related to the conservation of cultural works, to encourage education, study, research, to promote proficiency and skill in the practice of conservation of cultural works, to oppose any influences which would tend to lower standards and ethics, and to disseminate technical and professional information."
The Board Members of BAACG would like to take a moment to thank directors and staff of the following organizations for hosting some very special events over the past 5 decades:
Levi Strauss & Co. Archives
SF Center for the Book
The DeYoung Museum
Skywalker Ranch
History San Jose
The Foster Museum
The Walt Disney Family Museum
The SF Fire Museum
Gawain Weaver Art Conservation
SF Public Library
American Bookbinders Museum
The Museum at the Cliff
The SFO Museum
Filoli Historic House and Gardens
San Mateo County Historical Museum
SF MOMA
Computer History Museum
Stanford Cantor Arts Center And Biochemistry Lab
SF Maritime Museum
Legion of Honor Museum
Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Arcadia Fine Custom Framing
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History
Excerpt taken from the 1974 founding article:
CONSERVATION GUILDS BAY AREA ART CONSERVATION GUILD
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"Conservators of the San Francisco area, under the leadership of Roger Broussal, Chief Conservator of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, have formed a new Regional Group, the BAY AREA ART CONSER- VATION GUILD. The first officers of the newly founded guild are: Chair- man: Roger Broussal, Chief Conservator, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco; Vice-Chairman: Roy Perkinson, Conservator of the Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts, Museum of the California Palace of the Legion of Honor; Secretary: Alexis Pencovic, Assistant Conservator, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco; Treasurer: Ms. Stella Patri, Book and Paper Conservator, San Francisco.
At this time, the new organization has 20 members, with many others becoming interested in joining as the new guild gains momentum and recognition. The Group Advisory Committee which will guide and further establish the direction of the new group includes the elected officers plus the following members: George L. Stout, Gerald R. Hoepfner, Tony Rockwell and Tom Dixon."
