{"id":1717,"date":"2009-12-16T15:23:42","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T20:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/preservation\/?p=1717"},"modified":"2009-12-16T15:23:42","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T20:23:42","slug":"endless-possibilities-grand-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/2009\/12\/16\/endless-possibilities-grand-opening\/","title":{"rendered":"Endless Possibilities Grand Opening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, December 16, 2009<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1720\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15px\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2010\/02\/Blog-IMG_0510.jpg\" alt=\"Blog IMG_0510\" width=\"365\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2010\/02\/Blog-IMG_0510.jpg 365w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2010\/02\/Blog-IMG_0510-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 365px) 100vw, 365px\" \/>Last night I attended a reception for the grand opening of the African American Museum of Iowa\u2019s permanent exhibit &#8220;Endless Possibilities&#8221; which traces the journey of Iowa\u2019s African Americans. This event was also a farewell to curator Susan Kuecker who is moving to Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p>Susan and I have crossed paths many times, sitting on the same board, giving presentations, sharing <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1718\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15px\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2010\/02\/Blog-IMG_0501.jpg\" alt=\"Blog IMG_0501\" width=\"365\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2010\/02\/Blog-IMG_0501.jpg 365w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2010\/02\/Blog-IMG_0501-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 365px) 100vw, 365px\" \/>preservation concerns. Since the flood I&#8217;ve gotten to know Susan even better and am impressed with all the work she&#8217;s done post flood. This exhibit is a fine example of her ability to bring a story to the public.<\/p>\n<p>It was a lot of fun to go through the exhibit and see all the items that we had worked on put into context. There was no signage indicating what had and had not been in the flood. I doubt very much that anyone <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1722\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2010\/02\/Blog-IMG_05021.jpg\" alt=\"Blog IMG_0502\" width=\"366\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2010\/02\/Blog-IMG_05021.jpg 366w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2010\/02\/Blog-IMG_05021-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 366px) 100vw, 366px\" \/>going through the exhibit could discern which was which.<\/p>\n<p>If you have been reading the blog, you should recognize the gourd, basket, money (the long thin metal),<br \/>\nsuitcase, and buttons as items that we have cleaned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, December 16, 2009 Last night I attended a reception for the grand opening of the African American Museum of Iowa\u2019s permanent exhibit &#8220;Endless Possibilities&#8221; which traces the journey of Iowa\u2019s African Americans. This event was also a farewell to curator Susan Kuecker who is moving to Pittsburgh. Susan and I have crossed paths many<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/2009\/12\/16\/endless-possibilities-grand-opening\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Endless Possibilities Grand Opening&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,8],"tags":[],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1717"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=1717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}