Baird Travel Research Fellowship
Please join the Harvard Art Museums in welcoming back two former Craigen W. Bowen Fellows to present research made possible by the Baird Travel Research Fellowship. The Baird award is given to support further research on the Fellow’s technical study, a key part of the Straus Center Fellowship.
When: Thursday, September 15th. 3 pm – 5:15 pm
Where: Lamont Forum Room, Lamont Library*, Harvard University. (If you do not work at Harvard, please bring an i.d. and email Penley Knipe, penley_knipe@harvard.edu, so a list of attendees can be compiled ahead of time.)
Schedule: 3:00-3:45 Adam Novak and Q&A
3:45-4:30 Matt Brack and Q&A
4:30-5:15 Reception
Adam Novak: Veils and Decay: Robert Rauschenberg’s Hoarfrost Editions
Adam Novak received an MS in Art Conservation from the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation in 2008. As an outcome of his advanced training fellowship at the Straus Center for Conservation, Harvard Art Museum, he has completed extensive research on a series of prints by Robert Rauschenberg. Currently at the Weissman Preservation Center, Adam is a paper conservator for Special Collections in the Harvard Library.
Matt Brack: The Form and Function of Buddhist Portable Paintings on the Silk Road
Matthew Brack studied Conservation of Fine Art at the University of Northumbria at Newcastle in the UK before joining the Harvard Art Museums as Craigen W. Bowen Fellow in Paper Conservation in 2009. During the last year he has been a Baird Fellow of Technical Art History with the Museums while working on digitization projects for the Wellcome Trust, a large bio-medical charity in the UK.
*Lamont Library is located at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Quincy Street in the far southeast corner of Harvard Yard, east of Harvard Square. The only entrance to Lamont Library is the main entrance, which is in the front of the building off of Quincy Street. Bring an i.d. please.
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