John Canning & Co.'s Professional Development

 

A champion of education, John Canning & Co. is constantly sharing our architectural arts knowledge with clients, architects, preservationists, conservators, craftspeople and professionals, through lecturers, providing continuing education courses and by leading decorative finish workshops and professional development presentations. The culmination of knowledge in historic restoration, preservation and conservation fields continues to be shared. Below are a few of the panels and presentations that the Canning leaderships has participated in.

Panels & Presentations

Led by David Riccio

2020 – Woodgraining and Gilding Workshop, APTNE, Boston, MA

2019 – The Preservationist's Toolkit, Reattaching the Past to the Present: Traditional Methods & Modern Devices, APT DC Symposium, Mount Vernon, VA

2019 – Decorative Finishes Gilding Workshop, APT DC, Sterling, VA

2016 – Sterling Memorial Library Restoration, Yale University, Traditional Building Magazine Conference Series, New Haven, Connecticut

2013 – Let There be Light: Restoring the MIT Great Dome and Barker Library Rotunda, ABX Conference, Boston, Massachusetts

2013 – Traditional Plaster Attachment, Historic Finishes Workshop, APTI Meeting at Taliesin, Green Spring, Wisconsin

2013 – Re-gilding the Gilded Age, ICCA-Mid-Atlantic Region, Washington, DC

2012 – Complexity & Collaboration: Tradition and Practice in the Decorative Arts, Traditional Building Conference Series York, NY (March 2014) 

Led by John Canning

2020 – Woodgraining and Gilding Workshop, APTNE, Boston, MA

2019 – Decorative Finishes Gilding Workshop, APT DC, Sterling, VA

2014 – Inaugural Classic Tradition Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah

2013 – Traditional Paints 1800's Through 1960’s” Meeting and Workshop APTI, Taliesin, Green Spring, WI

2013 – Where The Water Flows, American Institute for Conservation, Indianapolis, IN

2013 – Re-gilding the Gilded Age, ICCA –Mid Atlantic Region, Washington, DC

2012 – Complexity & Collaboration: Tradition and Practice in the Decorative Arts, Traditional Building Conference, Boston, MA

2012 – Traditional Painting Materials, American Institute for Conservation, New Mexico

2011 – Restoring Beauty, Academy of Music, NECOCN, Chicago, IL

2008 – Bringing Ecclesiastical Beauty to the Shrine Church, The Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe, La Crosse, WI

2008 – Lockwood Matthews Mansion Then and Now, Antique & Appraisal Weekend, Norwalk, CT

2008 – Collaborative Approach to Decorative Painting Trinity Church, Restoring the LaFarge Murals Restoration & Renovation, Boston, MA

2008 – Graining demonstration/Tour Grand Central Terminal Conservation and Restoration of the 1944 Ceiling, Architectural Paint Research Conference, NYC

2007 – Recreation of Spanish Colonial Interior Decoration at the Casa Ramon Power Y Girait, Old San Juan, for the Conservation Trust of Puerto Rico, Association of Preservation Technology, San Juan Puerto Rico

2006 – Doris Duke’s Shangri La: Restoration of the Playhouse Frieze and Talar Ceiling, Association for Preservation Technology International Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA

2006 – Traditional Decorative Painting Materials, Traditional Building Exhibition and Conference, Chicago, IL