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08/26/2026

Thank you to Corita Art Center, ICA LA (Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles), and The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens for helping us close out the summer with two wonderful Getty Marrow Alumni gatherings! Created in response to interest in networking, these events brought together alumni, mentors, and host organizations to connect through conversation and shared arts experiences.

Earlier this month alumni gathered at Corita Art Center for a reception and networking event before making their way to ICA LA, participating in a collaborative viewfinding activity led by the Corita team along the way. Later in August, alumni reunited at the Huntington for another evening of networking and connection, along with a special tour of the exhibition “This Land Is...”

We're grateful to our host organizations and all who joined us for making these gatherings so meaningful. We look forward to strengthening our alumni community and carrying these connections into the year ahead!

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1-3. Getty Marrow alumni at Corita Art Center
4-6. Getty Marrow alumni participating in a viewfinding activity led by Corita Art Center.
7-8. Getty Marrow alumni at ICA LA.
9. Getty Marrow alumni at the Huntington.

08/20/2026

We're grateful for Williamson Gallery, Scripps College and the Millard Sheets Library at Otis College of Art and Design for hosting our first two Getty Marrow Alumni events!

In a recent survey, many shared their interest in attending events to network and meet other alumni. As a result, we partnered with a select group of long-standing internship host organizations to support a pilot-phase of Getty Marrow Alumni Gatherings. These smaller events were designed strategically to continue connections former interns have with their host organization, allowing alumni from different cohort years to meet one another, and enable them to continue relationships with supervisors and mentors. Plus, the gatherings enabled alumni to engage with exhibitions and collections, art making activities, and shared conversations—deepening existing connections and creating new ones.

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1-2. Getty Marrow alumni at Scripps College.
3-6. Getty Marrow alumni with old photos of themselves at Scripps College.
7. Getty Marrow alumni at Otis College.
8. Artbook table at Otis College.
9. Screenprinting tote bags at Otis College.
10. Screenprinted tote bags at Otis College.

08/11/2026

OPEN BUZLUDZHA 2026 is offering an opportunity to experience Bulgaria’s iconic Buzludzha Monument in a new way!

From August 14-16, Keeping It Modern grantee Buzludzha Monument will host a festival that features contemporary art, music, light installations, and public programming while supporting the conservation and adaptive reuse of the landmark. During the festival, visitors will have the opportunity to engage with the monument’s complex history through immersive 3D mapping, digital exhibits, and more.

Learn more about the festival: https://buzludzha-project.com/en/festival/

08/10/2026

Great feature in Chicago Sun-Times!

St Mark AME Zion Church-East Chicago, Indiana was one of the organizations awarded a $150,000 grant through Conserving Black Modernism—a joint project with National Trust for Historic Preservation. The funding will help the congregation develop a plan to preserve and restore its 53-year-old church, designed by pioneering Black architect Wendell Campbell. Known for its modernist design that evokes the form of symbolic "praying hands," St. Mark stands as an important piece of both local and Black architectural history.

Read the article:

The $150,000 award will help St. Mark A.M.E. Zion Church's congregation create a plan to preserve the unique 53-year-old structure designed by the late Black Chicago architect Wendell Campbell.

07/31/2026

Canvas conservation resource now available on Lulu: the Japanese edition of “Mist Lining Handbook: De-mist-ifying Mist Lining”

Originally published by Stichting Restauratie Atelier Limburg in the Netherlands with support from a Conserving Canvas grant, this handbook is the product of an international collaboration dedicated to sharing conservation knowledge. It provides a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of mist lining, a specialized technique used in the conservation and restoration of canvas paintings. Featuring workshop photographs, material reference charts, and step-by-step guidance, the handbook explores the materials, tools, and scientifically tested methodologies associated with the practice.

Read the guide: https://www.lulu.com/shop/kate-seymour-and-joanna-strombek-and-hidemi-toriumi-and-saki-kunikata-kunikata/mist-lining-handbook-japanese-edition/ebook/product-v82g6rd.html

07/30/2026

Did you know that every year Getty sponsors internships at arts organizations across Los Angeles? Paid summer internships can be an invaluable way for students to see themselves in a career in the arts.

According to alumni, their internship influenced their decision to pursue a long-term arts career.

Today is —if you work in the arts, leave your best advice for interns this summer in the comments.

07/29/2026

Keeping It Modern grantee Paimio Sanatorium / Paimion parantola is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site – one of 13 across Finland recognizing the architectural legacy of Alvar, Aino, and Elissa Aalto! Paimio Sanatorium was built between 1930 and 1933 in a pine forest in southwest Finland and is a renowned example of early modernist functionalist design. In 2014, a Keeping It Modern grant funded the creation of a conservation management plan, establishing long-term preservation guidelines to protect the sanatorium’s historic features while enabling its future adaptive reuse.

Congratulations to the Paimio Sanatorium and Alvar Aalto Foundation Alvar Aalto -säätiö team on this historic moment for Finnish architecture and cultural heritage. Check out their conservation management plan: https://www.getty.edu/publications-reports/item/2K7KYE
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Images 1, 2, 4: Maija Holma/Alvar Aalto Museum
Image 3: Sakari Mentu/Alvar Aalto Foundation

07/24/2026

More than 200 specialists in the Middle East and North Africa participated in site visits, workshops, intensive training programs, convenings, and conferences over the course of MOSAIKON, establishing a robust network of skilled professionals who are now better equipped to care for ancient mosaics in the region.

We’re grateful to all of our collaborators who organized projects including workshops for site managers, archaeologists, and technicians in Libya through King's College London, hands-on experience with in situ mosaics at Italian sites Herculaneum and Ercolano through the British School at Rome, the BSR, and courses for mosaic conservation technicians through the Centre Interregional de Conservation et Restauration du Patrimoine (CICRP)—including a month-long training program at the UNESCO World Heritage Site in Tipasa, Algeria.

Together with our numerous trainers, trainees, and other MOSAIKON participants we helped build a regional community of practice and a stronger future for mosaic conservation across the Mediterranean.

Read the MOSAIKON final report: https://gty.art/mosaikon-report

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Images:
1. MOSAIKON training participants gluing the surface of a mosaic in Tipasa, Algeria. Image courtesy the Conservation and Restoration Workshop of the Arles Antiquities Museum
2. Herculaneum site visit as part of The British School at Rome's MOSAIKON project. Credit: Eleanor Murkett/HCP
3. MOSAIKON training participants prepare to move a lifted mosaic for treatment in Byblos, Lebanon. Image courtesy the Conservation and Restoration Workshop of the Arles Antiquities Museum
4. Participants of the Tripolitanian Site Controllers' workshop in November 2012 in Libya. Photograph by Will Wootton
5. Herculaneum site visit as part of The British School at Rome's MOSAIKON project. Credit: Eleanor Murkett/HCP
6. The participants of the September 2013 Symposium on Protective Shelters for Archaeological Sites. Credit: Eleanor Murkett/HCP
7.Participants in the 2018 MOSAIKON training course in Tipasa, Algeria. Image courtesy the Conservation and Restoration Workshop of the Arles Antiquities Museum
8. MOSAIKON training participants moving a lifted mosaic for treatment in Byblos, Lebanon. Image courtesy the Conservation and Restoration Workshop of the Arles Antiquities Museum
9. Participants during a site visit in Sabratha, Libya as part of King's College London's MOSAIKON project. Photograph by Will Wootton
10. Visit to Herculaneum's House of the Bicentenary where participants saw the work underway to repair the roofs by the Herculaneum Conservation Project. Credit: Jane Thompson/HCP
11. MOSAIKON training participants receive diplomas upon completion of the course in Tipasa, Algeria. Image courtesy the Conservation and Restoration Workshop of the Arles Antiquities Museum
12. Participants in the 2016-17 MOSAIKON training course in Arles, France. Image courtesy Patrick Blanc and the Conservation and Restoration Workshop of the Arles Antiquities Museum

07/23/2026

As a key MOSAIKON collaborator, the CCA - Centro di Conservazione Archeologica, Roma organized numerous training programs for restorers from Syria, Tunisia, Jordan, Libya, and Algeria with Foundation support. The courses covered the maintenance and preventive conservation of both in situ mosaics and mosaics that had been removed for display in addition to planning, budgeting, and pedagogical skills that primed participants to become trainers themselves and teach the next generation of restorers.

Following the success of these programs and recognizing the need for ongoing support on the ground, two permanent ateliers for lifted mosaic conservation were created at Tipasa, Algeria and Byblos, Lebanon with Foundation support. The ateliers were designed as active conservation labs or workshops that remain in use beyond the completion of MOSAIKON. They are continuing to serve as centers for training and specialized work on mosaics and other archaeological objects with support from their home countries.

Read more about the outcomes of MOSAIKON: https://gty.art/mosaikon-report

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Images:
1. MOSAIKON training participants present their work to government officials touring the new mosaics conservation laboratory in Tipasa, Algeria. Image courtesy the Conservation and Restoration Workshop of the Arles Antiquities Museum
2. MOSAIKON training participants test the surface sizing of a mosaic during treatment in Tipasa, Algeria. Image courtesy the Conservation and Restoration Workshop of the Arles Antiquities Museum
3. Members of the Mosaikon MCC 2016 course at Ephesus when consolidating a mosaic in Terrace House, Domus 2.Image courtesy CCA-Roma
4. Mosaikon in situ training at the archaeological site of Ephesus in spring 2016 for professionals for Jordan, Libya, and Tunisia. Image courtesy CCA-Roma
5. Participants in the MOSAIKON training course for Libyan mosaic technicians at the Centro di Conservazione Archeologica work on the "Pietra Papa" mosaic with CCA staff. Photo: Araldo De Luca
6. The Syrian conservators and the conserved mosaic of "Quadraro" at the end of Module 1 of MOSAIKON Mosaic Conservation Course (MCC), held in Belmonte in Sabina, at the Convento di San Nicola, CCA's headquarter, during September-December 2011. Photo: Roberto Nardi, courtesy of CCA-Roma
7. Mosaikon in situ training at the archaeological site of Ephesus in spring 2016 for professionals for Jordan, Libya, and Tunisia. Image courtesy CCA-Roma
8. The Syrian conservators and the conserved mosaic of "Quadraro" at the end of Module 1 of MOSAIKON Mosaic Conservation Course (MCC), held in Belmonte in Sabina, at the Convento di San Nicola, CCA's headquarter, during September-December 2011. Photo: Roberto Nardi, courtesy of CCA-Roma
9. Integrating lacunae for treatment of Pietra Papa mosaic during 2014 Mosaikon training for professionals from Jordan, Syria, and Tunisia. Image courtesy CCA-Roma
10. A participant in the MOSAIKON training course for Libyan mosaic technicians at the Centro di Conservazione Archeologica removes gauze facing from the "Pietra Papa" mosaic. Photo: Araldo De Luca
11. Participants in the MOSAIKON training course for Libyan mosaic technicians at the Centro di Conservazione Archeologica reassembling the "Pietra Papa" mosaic. Photo: Araldo De Luca
12. MOSAIKON training participant Mohammed Reda Hakem conserving a Baiae mosaic fragment on loan from the National Archaelogical Museum of Naples. Image courtesy CCA-Roma

07/22/2026

MOSAIKON generated a significant body of multilingual publications, didactic materials, guidelines, and other practical tools, including the first Arabic translation of key readings on the conservation of mosaics. These materials are free resources to be used not only by participants as they continue their work but by conservation professionals across the globe.

As former International Committee for the Conservation of Mosaics (ICCM Foundation) president Demetrios Michaelides says, “MOSAIKON created an intellectual community that goes beyond the practice and material results. It represents an investment in scholarship and discourse.”

Check out the International Centre of the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM - conserving culture, promoting diversity)'s Arabic translation of key mosaic conservation texts:https://media.getty.edu/Text/777d3c57-859c-5d2c-a92c-2f751208e252.pdf

Browse the library of MOSAIKON publications: https://www.getty.edu/publications-reports/search?q=mosaikon

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Image 1: MOSAIKON publication of key texts related to the conservation of mosaics translated into Arabic for the first time. Image courtesy ICCROM