For our community project in 2024, we paid homage to our generous hosts – the American College of the Building Arts, by completing three projects. Their library houses the Jefferson Collection of rare and historic books, as well as a painting of Thomas Jefferson. Our thanks go out to Micki and Mitch Cavanah of Reed’s Gold Leaf, who donated and demonstrated the restoration process on an antique frame for a painting of Thomas Jefferson. The second project was a reverse glass gilded sign exhibiting the ACBA logo with textural embellishments. Our thanks to Sean Michael Felix for his beautiful rendition of the ACBA logo. Volunteers worked together to apply 4 different colors of genuine leaf onto the letters. Glass gilding techniques included using Kolner Ceramic Size. Peter Miller of P.H. Miller Studios, provided the exquisite custom frame for the glass logo. In the third project, volunteers replaced the old vinyl building address numbers with new gilded numbers. Thanks to W& B Gold leaf for their generous donation of gold for all three projects as well as to all our conference attendees who volunteered!
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