Daughters of Utah Pioneers Annual Meeting Features Collection Care Expert

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Daughters of Utah Pioneers Annual National

Directors Meeting Features Scott M. Haskins

Orson Pratt Family

It was a wonderful and unusual opportunity for Scott M. Haskins, world-renownedpainting and art conservator, to be the featured speaker to 450 attendees at themain session of the Annual Directors Meeting of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers inOgden, Utah on June 9, 2012.

What made it so wonderful is the connection Mr. Haskins feels with the DUP havingbeen working on the paintings in the collection of the International Museum of Pioneers in Salt Lake City since 1980.

The museum collection has many important paintings many of which are from theNauvoo Period (1840s) and were brought across the plains by the pioneers. Manywere made by the new immigrants in their new land. In all, its a wonderful
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collection of Early Americana. Besides there being wonderful works of art, thedocumentary value of the Expansionist Period of the United States is priceless. Of course, the museum collection is not made up of only paintings. In fact the thrill of seeing this museum is that of entering a time capsule o f life from the 1800s as youare surrounded by all that they used with the walls lined of photos with facial

expressions from those days.

Brigham Young in Nauvoo c. 1843

Therefore, the slides, photos and stories that Mr. Haskins showed the group and toldwere not High Society high brow narratives for art world conoscenti. The exact opposite! The slides were of DUP paintings and the stories brought laughter andtaught home spun lessons of preserving family memorabilia, heirlooms,

collectibles and stuf f!

Pioneers Crossing the Platte River by Dan Weggeland in 1869 was the last project done for the Daughters of Utah Pioneers by Fine Art Conservation Laboratories Scott M. Haskins

Scott M. Haskins is also the author of the best sold home preservation manualentitled, How To Save Your Stuff From A Disaster. Once again, this down homeconnection has endeared him and helped him to target his message to the attendees


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of the DUP conference, assisting them with tips and stories on how to protect andsave the collectibles, and heirlooms in their care. Mr. Haskins spoke for about 25minutes and no one was seen to have fallen asleep which is quite something givethe median age of this group!

After the main session of the conference, about 50 lucky workshop attendees hadthe fun and educational experience of sitting together with Mr. Haskins as theylooked at examples, saw more slides, asked all the questions they could think of andhad a fun sweepstakes drawing for over $2,000.00 in prizes including free videorecorders for taping the contents of homes for insurance purposes (thats a tip for you!) and a years membership to Ancestry.com. The workshop ended with a veryuseful panel discussion to bring together all the preservation experts at theconference for discussion and questions.

Mr. Haskins sold his book, How To Save Your Stuff From A Disaster, at theconference along with an instructional CD and an anchoring product (in case of hurricanes, earthquakes, tornados and grandkids) called Museum Wax. From the

profits of the items sold, Mr. Haskins company Save Your Stuff LLC donated $326 tothe DUP.

As an ongoing effort to raise money for the Daughters of Utah Pioneers and toeducate its members on preservation techniques for the home and small museum,an educational website showing art restoration- painting conservation projects hasbeen set up at (click on this name to go to the website-blog) Pioneer Art Restoration . This interesting and entertaining website is updated often with new stories, videosand photos. You can sign up for automatic updates in the side bar without being put on a mailing list.

Mr. Haskins was very pleased with the 2012 DUP National Meeting event for itsdirectors and DUP President, Maureen Smith expressed high praises for the messageof the speech and the workshop. The membership seemed entertained and washungry for the education on preserving important treasured items at home and inthe local chapter DUP Museums.

If you would like to see Mr. Scott Haskins speak at your upcoming event, put on aworkshop, contribute to your newsletter or website with tips, stories, video and
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photos call Fine Art Conservation Laboratories and discuss your needs with Mr.Haskins Assistant Francesca Ruggeri at 805 564 3438 or email at [email protected]

To read a recent newspaper article about Scott M. Haskins and his company, Fine

Art Conservation Laboratories, click on this link: FACL Newspaper Article (leave acomment if you like the article!)

If you would like to see a short video tour of Mr. Haskins art conservation laboratoryclick on this link: Lab Tour (leave a comment after your tour!)

Once again, if you would like to see the website set up for Early Americana art,Pioneer Art click here : Pioneer Art Restoration

Art appraisal questions? Call Richard Holgate at 805 895 5121 or click here for thewebsite: Appraisals of fine art, antiques and more

See various YouTube videos on practical lessons on protecting your collectibles andother treasured items at this link (click on this name) Preservation Coach . (leave acomments on the videos you like!)

Pioneer Children by CCA Christensen
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