Call for Interns: PKL Scrapbook Conservation 2024
The Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Center is excited to announce the opening of applications for our PKL Scrapbook Conservation Internship for the year 2024.
Undergraduate and graduate students from Archives and Records Management, Library and Information Services, Art Studies, Arts Management, and Fine Arts are encouraged to apply. We also welcome applications from non-students, who are interested in paper conservation.
Interns will be trained in the following areas of work:
- Assist the lead project staff in acquiring materials for basic paper preservation.
- Assist the project consultant in the assessment of scrapbooks.
- Assist in documentation and preparation of scrapbook pages for dry cleaning and encapsulation.
- Gain hands-on experience with surface cleaning, encapsulation and binding of scrapbooks.
Interns are expected to spend 100 hours at the Center within the period from June to November 2024 to receive a certificate of internship. The internship is unpaid, but modest transportation allowance will be provided.
Interested applicants may send their CV and cover letter explaining their motivations for applying. A signed letter of recommendation from a professor/mentor should also be sent.
Kindly address the letter to:
Ms. Anne Marie Ozaeta
President, Kalaw-Ledesma Foundation, Inc.
Applications may be e-mailed to klfi.pklcenter@gmail.com on or before Sunday, 30 June 2024, with the subject: “PKL Scrapbook Conservation Internship Application 2024”.
We look forward to receiving your applications!
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About the PKL Scrapbooks and the conservation work
Purita Kalaw-Ledesma was an arduous chronicler of events, activities, and writings on Philippine modern art. Since the founding of the AAP in 1948 until 2005, she was able to compile 83 scrapbooks containing clippings on art.
With the sponsorship of National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), Kalaw-Ledesma Foundation was able to conserve the 10 volumes of PKL Scrapbooks (vols. 74-83) in 2018 and 2021. In 2024, additional five volumes (Vols. 69-73) will be applied with conservation treatment.
The conservation of the Purita Kalaw-Ledesma (PKL) Scrapbooks (Vols. 69-73) is made possible in part by the NCCA.