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Conserving Fallingwater’s Outdoor Art Online Program Oct. 27

Join art conservator Connie Stromberg for a special online program October 27 on preserving the outdoor art of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater home in Fayette County.

She will highlight the challenges and rewards of conserving the outdoor sculptures at Fallingwater, including Jacques Lipchitz’s Mother and Child, the cast iron Buddha head and Peter Voulkos’s Funiculated Smog.

Connie Stromberg is a private conservator and owner of Stromberg Conservation, LLC. In addition to Fallingwater, her clients include the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian Museum of American History, U.S. Capitol, Barbados Museum, and Johns Hopkins University, to name a few.

Connie majored in sculpture at Carnegie Mellon University and received her M.S. in sculpture conservation from the Winterthur/University of Delaware program in the Conservation of Artistic and Historic Objects.

Click Here to register and for more information. The program will begin at Noon on October 27.

Visit the Fallingwater website to learn more about this UNESCO World Heritage site.

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The Conservancy has helped to establish 11 state parks, conserved more than 250,000 acres of natural lands and protected or restored more than 3,000 miles of rivers and streams, maintains 132 community gardens and other green spaces that are planted with the help of more than 11,000 volunteers and the support of more than 9,000 members.

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