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		<title>Updating National Register Guidelines for Identifying, Evaluating, and Documenting Traditional Cultural Properties and Native American Landscapes</title>
		<link>http://ncptt.nps.gov/updating-national-register-guidelines-for-identifying-evaluating-and-documenting-traditional-cultural-properties-and-native-american-landscapes/</link>
		<comments>http://ncptt.nps.gov/updating-national-register-guidelines-for-identifying-evaluating-and-documenting-traditional-cultural-properties-and-native-american-landscapes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 20:24:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Loether</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[C2A: Preservation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bighorn National Forest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cultural landscapes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ethnographic landscapes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federally Recognized Tribes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government-to-Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indian Tribal Governments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lovell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medecine Mountain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicine Wheel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Register of Historic Places]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NHL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NPS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NRIS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TCPs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[traditional community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Traditional Cultural Properties]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WY]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ncptt.nps.gov/?p=17224</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Introduction
The National Register of Historic Places (NR) documents the appearance and importance of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects significant in our Nation’s prehistory and history. To guide the selection of properties included in the NR, the National Park Service (NPS) has developed NR Criteria for Evaluation. These criteria are standards by which every property [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NCPTT to offer LEED Exam Preparation Workshop June 26-28, 2012</title>
		<link>http://ncptt.nps.gov/leedworkshop/</link>
		<comments>http://ncptt.nps.gov/leedworkshop/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 19:47:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Jackson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Architecture & Engineering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Featured]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Training]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Architecture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[green preservation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LEED]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natchitoches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Preservation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sustainability]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ncptt.nps.gov/?p=16619</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
National Center for Preservation Technology and Training will host a three day LEED Exam Preparation Workshop at our office in Natchitoches, Louisiana.

LEED has become an industry standard for demonstrating the “sustainability” of new construction and rehabilitation projects. While LEED is not the only rating system for buildings at this time it is the most widely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paradise Gardens; it&#8217;s Past and it&#8217;s Future</title>
		<link>http://ncptt.nps.gov/paradise-gardens-its-past-and-its-future/</link>
		<comments>http://ncptt.nps.gov/paradise-gardens-its-past-and-its-future/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 12:55:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Church</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Materials Conservation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Videos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Divine Disorder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[folk art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Howard Finster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jordon Poole]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Outsider Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paradise Garden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paradise Garden Foundation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Summerville]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ncptt.nps.gov/?p=17173</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This lecture was part of the Divine Disorder Conference on the Conservation of Outsider Folk art that was organized and hosted by NCPTT. The conference was held February 15-16, 2012 on the campus of Northwestern University in Natchitoches, Louisiana.
Paradise Gardens; it&#8217;s Past and it&#8217;s Future

Abstract
Speakers Biography
Jordan Poole,Executive Director Paradise Garden Foundation
A Chattanooga County native Jordan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iron Fencing Care Workshop in Bloomington, Indiana</title>
		<link>http://ncptt.nps.gov/iron-fencing-workshop-bloomington/</link>
		<comments>http://ncptt.nps.gov/iron-fencing-workshop-bloomington/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 13:58:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Church</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cemetery Conservation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Materials Conservation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Training]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Videos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bloomington]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cast iron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cemetery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cole County Farm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fencing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indiana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iron Fence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Monroe County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NCPTT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ornamental iron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Preservation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Workshop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wrought iron]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ncptt.nps.gov/?p=16217</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[NCPTT, in partnership with <a href="http://www.monroehistory.org/">Monroe County History Center</a> at Indiana University, conducted a workshop focused on the techniques and knowledge needed to preserve ornamental ironwork in an architectural setting. This workshop begin with an opening lecture session at 6:30 p.m. by NCPTT's Materials Conservator Jason Church on Friday, October 14th at the History Center in Bloomington, Indiana. The video seen here is that lecture recorded by the local Community Access Television Services.]]></description>
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		<title>$235,500 Released for NCPTT Grants Program</title>
		<link>http://ncptt.nps.gov/235500-released-for-ncptt-grants-program/</link>
		<comments>http://ncptt.nps.gov/235500-released-for-ncptt-grants-program/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:27:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed FitzGerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Grants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ptt grants]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ncptt.nps.gov/?p=17031</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis announced the awarding of $235,500, in eleven federal competitive preservation technology and training grants.]]></description>
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		<title>Save the Date: Diagnosing Existing Buildings, June 14-16, 2012 at Taliesin</title>
		<link>http://ncptt.nps.gov/save-the-date-diagnosing-existing-buildings-june-14-16-2012-at-taliesin/</link>
		<comments>http://ncptt.nps.gov/save-the-date-diagnosing-existing-buildings-june-14-16-2012-at-taliesin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 22:40:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed FitzGerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Architecture & Engineering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[APT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[APTI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[building envelope]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diagnostics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forensic engineering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frank Lloyd Wright]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[masonry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[structural investigation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taliesin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ncptt.nps.gov/?p=16976</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Association for Preservation Technology International, with support from NCPTT, will hold another in its series of "hands-on" workshops held at the Taliesin estate of noted architect Frank Lloyd Wright in Spring Green, Wisconsin.]]></description>
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		<title>The Strange Procession That Never Moves</title>
		<link>http://ncptt.nps.gov/the-strange-procession-that-never-moves/</link>
		<comments>http://ncptt.nps.gov/the-strange-procession-that-never-moves/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 13:05:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Church</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Materials Conservation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Divine Disorder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[folk art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kentucky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Martin Johnson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mayfield]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MCC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Monument Conservation Collaborative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NCPTT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Outsider Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wooldridge Monuments]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ncptt.nps.gov/?p=16718</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Wooldridge Monuments are a group of eighteen life-sized sculptures located in Maplewood Cemetery, Mayfield, Kentucky. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, they commemorate the life and relatives of Henry G. Wooldridge.]]></description>
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		<title>Planning to Stabilize, Document, Conserve and Interpret Howard Finster’s Paradise Garden in Summerville, Georgia</title>
		<link>http://ncptt.nps.gov/planning-to-stabilize-document-conserve-and-interpret-howard-finsters-paradise-garden-in-summerville-georgia/</link>
		<comments>http://ncptt.nps.gov/planning-to-stabilize-document-conserve-and-interpret-howard-finsters-paradise-garden-in-summerville-georgia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 18:17:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Church</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Materials Conservation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Divine Disorder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[folk art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Howard Finster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jack Pyburn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lord Aeck & Sargent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NCPTT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Outsider Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paradise Gardens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Summerville]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ncptt.nps.gov/?p=16730</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This lecture was part of the Divine Disorder Conference on the Conservation of Outsider Folk art that was organized and hosted by NCPTT. The conference was held February 15-16, 2012 on the campus of Northwestern University in Natchitoches, Louisiana.

Planning to Stabilize, Document, Conserve and Interpret Howard Finster’s Paradise Garden in Summerville, Georgia
Abstract
This presentation will illustrate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Orange Show Center for Visionary Art</title>
		<link>http://ncptt.nps.gov/the-orange-show-center-for-visionary-art/</link>
		<comments>http://ncptt.nps.gov/the-orange-show-center-for-visionary-art/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 17:04:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Church</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Materials Conservation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Divine Disorder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[folk art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Houston]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jefferson Davis McKissack]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marilyn Oshman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NCPTT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Orange Show]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Outsider Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ncptt.nps.gov/?p=16769</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This lecture was part of the Divine Disorder Conference on the Conservation of Outsider Folk art that was organized and hosted by NCPTT. The conference was held February 15-16, 2012 on the campus of Northwestern University in Natchitoches, Louisiana.

The Orange Show Center for Visionary Art
Abstract
The Orange Show Foundation Inc. recently received a grant from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unicultural Ethnography: Preserving Outsider Art Through the Ethnography of Individual Outsider Artists</title>
		<link>http://ncptt.nps.gov/unicultural-ethnography-preserving-outsider-art-through-the-ethnography-of-individual-outsider-artists/</link>
		<comments>http://ncptt.nps.gov/unicultural-ethnography-preserving-outsider-art-through-the-ethnography-of-individual-outsider-artists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 13:24:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Church</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Materials Conservation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Divine Disorder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[folk art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matt DeFord]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NCPTT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSULA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Outsider Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shane Rasmussen]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ncptt.nps.gov/?p=16680</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This lecture was part of the Divine Disorder Conference on the Conservation of Outsider Folk art that was organized and hosted by NCPTT. The conference was held February 15-16, 2012 on the campus of Northwestern University in Natchitoches, Louisiana.

Unicultural Ethnography: Preserving Outsider Art Through the Ethnography of Individual Outsider Artists
Abstract
Certain aspects of the artistic experience [...]]]></description>
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		<title>God&#8217;s Architects; Documenting the Materials, Methods, and Self-Taught Builders of the South</title>
		<link>http://ncptt.nps.gov/gods-architects-documenting-the-materials-methods-and-self-taught-builders-of-the-south/</link>
		<comments>http://ncptt.nps.gov/gods-architects-documenting-the-materials-methods-and-self-taught-builders-of-the-south/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 13:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Church</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Materials Conservation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Divine Disorder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emilie Taylor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[folk art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[God's Architects]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tulane School of Architecture]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ncptt.nps.gov/?p=16666</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This lecture was part of the Divine Disorder Conference on the Conservation of Outsider Folk art that was organized and hosted by NCPTT. The conference was held February 15-16, 2012 on the campus of Northwestern University in Natchitoches, Louisiana.

God&#8217;s Architects; Documenting the Materials, Methods, and Self-Taught Builders of the South
Abstract
Scattered about remote back roads and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taking the Art to the Streets: How the Citizens of Los Angeles Saved Watts Towers</title>
		<link>http://ncptt.nps.gov/taking-the-art-to-the-streets-how-the-citizens-of-los-angeles-saved-watts-towers/</link>
		<comments>http://ncptt.nps.gov/taking-the-art-to-the-streets-how-the-citizens-of-los-angeles-saved-watts-towers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 21:51:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Church</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Materials Conservation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Divine Disorder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[folk art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jo Farb Hernandez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Los Angeles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Outsider Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sabato Rodia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Simon Rodia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SPACES]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Watts Towers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ncptt.nps.gov/?p=16704</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This lecture was part of the Divine Disorder Conference on the Conservation of Outsider Folk art that was organized and hosted by NCPTT. The conference was held February 15-16, 2012 on the campus of Northwestern University in Natchitoches, Louisiana.

Taking the Art to the Streets: How the Citizens of Los Angeles Saved Watts Towers
Abstract
When the assorted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thin-Section Petrography Workshop a Success</title>
		<link>http://ncptt.nps.gov/thin-section-petrography-workshop-a-success/</link>
		<comments>http://ncptt.nps.gov/thin-section-petrography-workshop-a-success/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 21:16:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Striegel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Archeology & Collections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Materials Conservation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[analytical tools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[archeology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[microscope]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[petrographic analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[polarized light microscopy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thin Section Petrography]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ncptt.nps.gov/?p=16833</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Under the microscope sat a thin section of the smaller Bamiyan Buddha from Afghanistan which was destroyed in 2001. As polarizing filters were placed in front of and behind the sample creating cross polarization, grains of large quartz, feldspars, chert, and other components sparkled in vivid color on a dark background. This technique is called [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creating a Conservation Plan for Vollis Simpson’s Whirligigs</title>
		<link>http://ncptt.nps.gov/creating-a-conservation-plan-for-vollis-simpsons-whirligigs/</link>
		<comments>http://ncptt.nps.gov/creating-a-conservation-plan-for-vollis-simpsons-whirligigs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 20:54:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Church</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Materials Conservation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conference]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dennis Montagna]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Divine Disorder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[folk art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jefferson Currie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NC]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[North Carolina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Outsider Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ron Harvey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vollis Simpson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Whirligig Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wilson]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ncptt.nps.gov/?p=16814</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[These lectures were part of the Divine Disorder Conference on the Conservation of Outsider Folk art that was organized and hosted by NCPTT. The conference was held February 15-16, 2012 on the campus of Northwestern University in Natchitoches, Louisiana.
Dennis Montagna

Jeffery Currie

Ron Harvey

Creating a Conservation Plan for Vollis Simpson’s Whirligigs
Abstract
For the past thirty years, 92-year-old Vollis [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Re-evaluation of 1984 Preservation Decisions for the African House Murals by Clementine Hunter</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 20:07:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Church</dc:creator>
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Re-evaluation of 1984 Preservation Decisions for the African House Murals by Clementine Hunter
In 1984 as an Associate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Greatest Show on Earth:  the history and conservation of Jefferson Davis McKissack’s Orange Show</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 18:03:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Church</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Grace Cynkar]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This lecture was part of the Divine Disorder Conference on the Conservation of Outsider Folk art that was organized and hosted by NCPTT. The conference was held February 15-16, 2012 on the campus of Northwestern University in Natchitoches, Louisiana.

The Greatest Show on Earth:  the history and conservation of Jefferson Davis McKissack’s Orange Show
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The Orange Show [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Simon Rodia’s Towers in Watts (The Watts Towers) Four Decades of Interventions and Still Searching for a Solution</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 15:55:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Church</dc:creator>
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		<title>What&#8217;s In and What&#8217;s Out</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:31:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Church</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[James Dixon]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This lecture was part of the Divine Disorder Conference on the Conservation of Outsider Folk art that was organized and hosted by NCPTT. The conference was held February 15-16, 2012 on the campus of Northwestern University in Natchitoches, Louisiana.

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What&#8217;s In and What&#8217;s Out
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James Dixon (1887- 1970) was a primitive landscape painter from Tory Island an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Virtual Conservation of Folk and Outsider Art Environments</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 13:57:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Church</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This lecture was part of the Divine Disorder Conference on the Conservation of Outsider Folk art that was organized and hosted by NCPTT. The conference was held February 15-16, 2012 on the campus of Northwestern University in Natchitoches, Louisiana.

Virtual Conservation of Folk and Outsider Art Environments
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The presentation will address the issue of conserving documents pertaining [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Creative Obsession: Materials and Techniques of the Self-Taught Artist James Castle</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 21:57:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Church</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This lecture was part of the Divine Disorder Conference on the Conservation of Outsider Folk art that was organized and hosted by NCPTT. The conference was held February 15-16, 2012 on the campus of Northwestern University in Natchitoches, Louisiana.

A Creative Obsession: Materials and Techniques of the Self-Taught Artist James Castle
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Identifying the materials of works of [...]]]></description>
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