2007 Events
April 6-7, 2007
Cheryl Porter, Medieval Pigments Workshop, Isabella Stewart Gardner MuseumThrough illustrated lectures, participants will examine the story of color in medieval times. The course will address the history, geography, chemistry, iconographic importance and the actual techniques of color manufacture, with special reference to manuscript painting. Using original recipes, each participant will make and paint out the colors. No previous experience is necessary.Two workshops will be available, one each on 4/6/06 and 4/7/06 from 1-4pm in the Multi-Purpose Room of the ISGM. 16 people can attend each session and the cost is $30/person. NECA has underwritten a portion of the cost of the workshop.
April 25, 2007
Ron Cieciuch, Senior Photographic Scientist in the Research Division of Polaroid, retired, who also served as the Polaroid representative on the ANSI committee for the Stability of Photographic images.Ron will discuss the research he conducted at Polaroid until his retirement in 1996, covering such topics as the stability properties of the substrate and image-making materials (dyes, pigments, etc.), and the conditions under which the image is expected to be stable.Sackler Museum, Room 318
May 2007
Regional Intern Presentations by Lou Di Gennaro, Meta Chavannes, Jessica Arista, and Craig Uram at the Sackler Museum auditorium
"The Alhambra: Treatment of an oversized volume in a failed caoutchouc binding". Lou Di Gennaro graduated from the North Bennet Street School's bookbinding program in 2006 and is currently a Conservation Technician at New York University. "Van Gogh's 'Ravine': the Underlying Story". Meta Chavannes is currently the Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Paintings Conservation @ MFA, Boston on a 3-year fellowship.
"Pre-Columbian Textile Conservation Workshop 2007: Headgear and Human Remains from Huaca Malena". Jessica Arista is the pre-program conservation intern at the Worcester Art Museum and has been accepted into the University of Delware/ Winterthur graduate program for conservation where she will begin studies this fall.
“Is That Supposed to be There?: An Examination of Joseph Beuys’ Multiples with Metal Components.” Craig Uram is the Samuel H. Kress Advanced-Level Intern in Objects Conservation, Straus Center for Conservation, Harvard University Art Museums.
June 6-7 2007
Dwight Primiano, Digital Photography Workshop, Smith CollegeDwight Primiano has produced over a dozen personal portfolios that are included in private and public collections and have been exhibited on three continents. He has received Individual Artists Grants from the Polaroid Collection and the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. Dwight earns his living photographing two and three dimensional art work and architecture. He has produced dozens of exhibition catalogs, posters, books and digital catalogs for institutions such as the New York Public Library, Columbia University, Boston University, The Municipal Art Society of New York, The Architectural League of New York, Alliance Capital, Museum of Art/ Rhode Island School of Design, Jewish Theological Seminary of America and other museums and businesses throughout the United States.
Workshop will include discussion of digital vs. traditional photography, "levels/types" of digital cameras, functions and features of digital cameras, lighting and color balance, management of image files and size for storage and output, among other topics of interest. Hands-on opportunities are expected to be part of this workshop; therefore, the workshop will have a limited enrollment (number to be determined).
September 20, 2007
Johnny Carrera, Quercus Press: Letterpress and Bindery, Waltham, MA
“Pictorial Webster’s: 4000 Engravings From Merriam-Webster Dictionaries of the 19th Century.” The talk will include an overview of the repair of an original 19th c. Webster’s Dictionary, conservation work on the original blocks from the dictionary, and Mr. Carrera’s own design binding of a Quercus Press printed text block.
October 7, 2007
Sandra Kelberlau and Charlotte Ameringer, Paintings Conservators, Museum of Fine Art, Boston
Andrew Haines, Frame Conservator, Museum of Fine Art, Boston
“Conservation of Thomas Sully’s The Passage of the Delaware and its Original Frame” The Passage of the Delaware is the largest easel painting in MFA, Boston’s collection, but due to its size and condition, the painting has never been shown with the American paintings collection, and has never been displayed with its original frame. The talk will present the treatment at its current stage and discuss the pros and cons of working in a public space.
November 1, 2007
Walter Newman, Director of Paper Conservation, NEDCC
“Preservation of New York's Bellevue Wall of Prayers from 9/11” This talk is an overview of the preservation of the paper postings on the Bellevue Hospital Wall of Prayers, a makeshift 9/11 memorial composed of forty plywood panels that now belongs to the Museum of the City of New York. The treatment project was undertaken by Northeast Document Conservation Center in 2005 and is still in progress. The treatment design is a minimal but critical intervention that respects the spontaneity of the way the panels were made. New England Document Conservation Center, North Andover, MA
April 6-7, 2007
Cheryl Porter, Medieval Pigments Workshop, Isabella Stewart Gardner MuseumThrough illustrated lectures, participants will examine the story of color in medieval times. The course will address the history, geography, chemistry, iconographic importance and the actual techniques of color manufacture, with special reference to manuscript painting. Using original recipes, each participant will make and paint out the colors. No previous experience is necessary.Two workshops will be available, one each on 4/6/06 and 4/7/06 from 1-4pm in the Multi-Purpose Room of the ISGM. 16 people can attend each session and the cost is $30/person. NECA has underwritten a portion of the cost of the workshop.
April 25, 2007
Ron Cieciuch, Senior Photographic Scientist in the Research Division of Polaroid, retired, who also served as the Polaroid representative on the ANSI committee for the Stability of Photographic images.Ron will discuss the research he conducted at Polaroid until his retirement in 1996, covering such topics as the stability properties of the substrate and image-making materials (dyes, pigments, etc.), and the conditions under which the image is expected to be stable.Sackler Museum, Room 318
May 2007
Regional Intern Presentations by Lou Di Gennaro, Meta Chavannes, Jessica Arista, and Craig Uram at the Sackler Museum auditorium
"The Alhambra: Treatment of an oversized volume in a failed caoutchouc binding". Lou Di Gennaro graduated from the North Bennet Street School's bookbinding program in 2006 and is currently a Conservation Technician at New York University. "Van Gogh's 'Ravine': the Underlying Story". Meta Chavannes is currently the Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Paintings Conservation @ MFA, Boston on a 3-year fellowship.
"Pre-Columbian Textile Conservation Workshop 2007: Headgear and Human Remains from Huaca Malena". Jessica Arista is the pre-program conservation intern at the Worcester Art Museum and has been accepted into the University of Delware/ Winterthur graduate program for conservation where she will begin studies this fall.
“Is That Supposed to be There?: An Examination of Joseph Beuys’ Multiples with Metal Components.” Craig Uram is the Samuel H. Kress Advanced-Level Intern in Objects Conservation, Straus Center for Conservation, Harvard University Art Museums.
June 6-7 2007
Dwight Primiano, Digital Photography Workshop, Smith CollegeDwight Primiano has produced over a dozen personal portfolios that are included in private and public collections and have been exhibited on three continents. He has received Individual Artists Grants from the Polaroid Collection and the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. Dwight earns his living photographing two and three dimensional art work and architecture. He has produced dozens of exhibition catalogs, posters, books and digital catalogs for institutions such as the New York Public Library, Columbia University, Boston University, The Municipal Art Society of New York, The Architectural League of New York, Alliance Capital, Museum of Art/ Rhode Island School of Design, Jewish Theological Seminary of America and other museums and businesses throughout the United States.
Workshop will include discussion of digital vs. traditional photography, "levels/types" of digital cameras, functions and features of digital cameras, lighting and color balance, management of image files and size for storage and output, among other topics of interest. Hands-on opportunities are expected to be part of this workshop; therefore, the workshop will have a limited enrollment (number to be determined).
September 20, 2007
Johnny Carrera, Quercus Press: Letterpress and Bindery, Waltham, MA
“Pictorial Webster’s: 4000 Engravings From Merriam-Webster Dictionaries of the 19th Century.” The talk will include an overview of the repair of an original 19th c. Webster’s Dictionary, conservation work on the original blocks from the dictionary, and Mr. Carrera’s own design binding of a Quercus Press printed text block.
October 7, 2007
Sandra Kelberlau and Charlotte Ameringer, Paintings Conservators, Museum of Fine Art, Boston
Andrew Haines, Frame Conservator, Museum of Fine Art, Boston
“Conservation of Thomas Sully’s The Passage of the Delaware and its Original Frame” The Passage of the Delaware is the largest easel painting in MFA, Boston’s collection, but due to its size and condition, the painting has never been shown with the American paintings collection, and has never been displayed with its original frame. The talk will present the treatment at its current stage and discuss the pros and cons of working in a public space.
November 1, 2007
Walter Newman, Director of Paper Conservation, NEDCC
“Preservation of New York's Bellevue Wall of Prayers from 9/11” This talk is an overview of the preservation of the paper postings on the Bellevue Hospital Wall of Prayers, a makeshift 9/11 memorial composed of forty plywood panels that now belongs to the Museum of the City of New York. The treatment project was undertaken by Northeast Document Conservation Center in 2005 and is still in progress. The treatment design is a minimal but critical intervention that respects the spontaneity of the way the panels were made. New England Document Conservation Center, North Andover, MA
