Fall 2008 - Spring 2009 Schedule
March 7, 2009 Frame Conservation at Smith College Museum of Art
Bill Myers, Chief Preparator, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
11 am SCMA classroom
Lunch provided at the Museum café afterwards. Please RSVP to David Dempsey at so we can have a headcount for lunch: ddempsey@email.smith.edu
Please join us for a look at the SCMA’s training program for undergraduate students in the conservation of frames. Each year the program takes on the conservation of two historic frames and the construction of one or two period reproductions. The students research the framing preferences of the artists whose paintings will occupy the frames and the correct historic style for the reproduction frames. Bill will present this year's work in progress and discuss finished work from early years of the program.
March 26, 2009 Simple cradles for book exhibitions
Susi Barbarossa, Conservation Technician, Houghton Library, Harvard U.
5:00-7:00 pm Houghton Library, Edison and Newman Room
The first book exhibition Susi Barbarossa worked on was back in the days when wooden blocks, glass bars and velvet snakes were the only supports used. Nowadays cradles made from 4-ply board are easy to make, and offer more support to the books on display. Join NECA for an illustrated talk on how to make them.
May 5, 2009
Annual Regional Intern Presentations
NECA
Annual Regional Intern Presentations
May 5, 2009
Sackler Art Museum auditorium, Cambridge, Mass.
Refreshments at 6pm in Sackler lobby
Program from 6:30pm—8pm Conservation of a Carved Amazonite Vase from the China Trade Room at Beauport
Jill Hari—Andrew W. Mellon Conservation Fellow, Historic New England
Forty Points of Light in the Service of Conservation: Polynomial Texture Mapping at the Worcester Art Museum
Winifred Murray—Samuel H. Kress Fellow in Paintings Conservation, Worcester Art Museum
The Harvard Glass Flowers and More: A Technical Study
Astrid Van Giffen—Samuel H. Kress Fellow in Objects Conservation, Straus Center for Conservation, Harvard Art Museum
Rock Posters from the Summer of Love: Haight Ashbury and the Art of Offset Lithography
Victoria Binder—Claire W. and Richard P. Morse Advanced Training Fellow in Paper Conservation, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
June 11-12, 2009
Digital Photography for Conservators – Yosi A. R-Pozeilov, Staff Photographer, Los Angeles County Museum of Art Conservation Center Worcester Art Museum, 9-5 both days
$150.00 per person, morning coffee and lunch provided. Fee also includes a copy of Yosi’s publication Digital Photography For Art Conservation.
Learn the basics of digital imaging and unique applications that are vital to the conservator’s proper documentation of treatments with this popular workshop. Many conservators express the desire to make better use of this relatively new medium to obtain appropriate, accurate records of their work. The workshop specifically addresses issues encountered by the conservator. It will cover the basics of the digital imaging, starting with the identification of proper digital imaging capture devices (i.e. digital cameras, scanners, etc.) and their most efficient methods of use; the importance of knowing the purpose or intended destination of the images generated; some aspects of lighting; image transfer mechanism and preservation; and instruction on image correction and editing using Photoshop software.
Yosi A. R-Pozeilov is the Senior Photographer at the Conservation Center of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) Since his return to Los Angeles and to LACMA at the end of 2003 Yosi was given the task to convert the analogue photographic studio into a digital one. Benefiting from the invaluable experience gained during the two years that he worked at the Harvard College Library in Cambridge, MA at the digital imaging studio, as well as his experience at the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), Boston, Yosi was successful in fully implementing a digital workflow in the Conservation Center. In 2004 he was invited by the AIC to teach his first workshop on digital photography at the annual meeting in Portland, OR. Since then, Yosi has taught his workshop at several venues across the country and on-line through the FAIC.
The workshop can accommodate 25 participants. Please email Kate Smith at kateccsmith@hotmail.com to reserve a spot on the list!
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