A discussion around cultural conservation and preservation, this panel is in conjunction with the National Museum's NEA grant to support the conservation treatment of paintings by Benji Okubo, a Nisei artist who painted while incarcerated at Heart Mountain, Wyoming during World War II. Panelists includ Rushmore Cervantes, chief deputy controller -- City of Los Angeles and former general manager of El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument; Jo Hill, director of conservation, Fowler Museum at UCLA; Jill Moniz, program manager, Visual Arts, California African American Museum; and Linda Strauss, senior director of Collections, Autry National Center of the American West. Moderated by Leslie Rainer, senior project specialist, Getty Conservation Institute. Following this discussion, Scott M. Haskins, conservator, Fine Art Conservation Laboratories, focuses on the work he performed on the Okubo paintings. A unique opportunity to get a behind-the-scenes view of the conservation process.

This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.