Jana Dambrogio, Thomas F. Peterson (1957) Conservator
| Jan/28 | Tue | 10:00AM-03:00PM | 14-0513, Bring your lunch |
| Jan/29 | Wed | 10:00AM-03:00PM | 14-0513, Bring your lunch |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Attendance: Repeating event, particpants welcome at any session
Prereq: NA
Queen Elizabeth the First did it. Marie Antoinette did it, too. And so did William Barton Rodgers.
Come spend a day in the MIT Libraries Wunsch Conservation lab with Jana Dambrogio, the new conservator and letterlocker-in-residence, learning about the 4,000-year-old tradition of writing a letter on papyrus, parchment, or paper and folding it to function as its own envelope.
Participants will make several types of locked letters with varying levels of built-in security based on historic examples. They will view historic manuscripts and learn how conservators preserve them.
If you identify yourself as an origami maker, paper engineer, letter-writer, secret keeper, or anti-tamper device master, this is the course for you.
Course size: 10
10:00 am-3:00 pm, with breaks.
Offered: Two separate day-long sessions.
When: Tuesday, January 28 or Wednesday, January 29.
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Jana Dambrogio, 14-0513, 617 452-4064, JLD@MIT.EDU