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Your annual membership gift supports the Museum’s exhibits, preserves its collections, funds special events, public programming, and educational programming. We are looking ahead to an exciting and event filled future at the El Paso Museum of Archaeology and hope that you will join us.
You’re Invited to Our
Museum Member and Volunteer Appreciation Party
January 28, 2012
2:00 to 4:00 pm
Membership is the price of admission to the party.
The El Paso Museum of Archaeology welcomes new, current, and renewing members to this Member and Volunteer Appreciation Party. Memberships start at $15.00, levels and benefits vary, contact the museum, 915-755-4332, for details about the appropriate membership level for you or click on the membership form above.
This party is designed to thank our current members and to encourage new memberships. The museum appreciates members who support the museum through annual dues and by helping spread the word about our fascinating exhibits and programs. Volunteers contributed 651 hours in the last fiscal year, the equivalent of over sixteen 40-hour weeks of time. This is our way of saying thank you to both members and current volunteers. Those interested in becoming new members or renewing their membership are welcome to do so at the party or at any time.
A special museum store member discount of 20% on high quality Southwestern-style jewelry is available through January 7, 2012.
We invite you to enjoy the following talk at 1:00 pm, just before the party.
Removing Modern Graffiti from Ancient Rock Art
at Hueco Tanks
January 28, 1:00 pm
Free Admission
Speaker Tim Roberts, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Archaeologist, discusses efforts since 2009 to use lasers to remove graffiti from several pictograph (ancient paintings on rock) sites at Hueco Tanks State Park and Historic Site, outside El Paso.
Portable lasers were used to remove the graffiti after non-invasive techniques, including X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF), Raman Spectroscopy, and Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR), were used in the field to identify the pigments, binders, and underlying rock. The resulting information was used to recreate the pictograph and graffiti paints that were subsequently used to create test samples used to verify the safe and effective use of portable lasers to remove graffiti. This information was also beneficial in calibrating the lasers to distinguish rock imagery from the graffiti to be removed. In 2011, for the first time at Hueco Tanks, lasers were used to successfully remove graffiti from pictographs.
This talk is being held in conjunction with the museum’s current exhibit Watercolor Paintings of Rock Art at Hueco Tanks, and a museum membership and volunteer appreciation event from 2:00 to 4:00 pm following the talk. At this event the museum welcomes the public to become new or renewing members, providing financial support to the museum through their dues.
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