NECA Events Schedule, 2018
Conservation Tour of Life, Death, and Revelry Exhibition | Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Please join us for a special conservation tour of the Gardner Museum’s exhibition Life, Death & Revelry. Conservators Holly Salmon, Jess Chloros and Ellen Promise will discuss their work and the discoveries they made while analyzing and treating the 7,500 lb marble Farnese Sarcophagus, 225 AD. They will highlight the restoration history of the Farnese Sarcophagus as well as discoveries of ancient pigment and gilding and the multiple cleaning techniques they used from water to two different types of laser cleaners.
August 2, 2018, 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Participants should RSVP to Jess Chloros at jchloros@isgm.org by July 26, 2018 (limited to 20 people).
Please join us for a special conservation tour of the Gardner Museum’s exhibition Life, Death & Revelry. Conservators Holly Salmon, Jess Chloros and Ellen Promise will discuss their work and the discoveries they made while analyzing and treating the 7,500 lb marble Farnese Sarcophagus, 225 AD. They will highlight the restoration history of the Farnese Sarcophagus as well as discoveries of ancient pigment and gilding and the multiple cleaning techniques they used from water to two different types of laser cleaners.
August 2, 2018, 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Participants should RSVP to Jess Chloros at jchloros@isgm.org by July 26, 2018 (limited to 20 people).
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NECA Annual Regional Intern/Fellow Presentations
Thursday, March 8, 2018
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s Education Studio
25 Evans Way, Boston, MA 02115
Refreshments at 5:30 pm
Presentations from 6:15 – 8:00 pm
Presentations
From 220v to 110v and Back Again: 7 Illuminated Hotel Signs from the MoMA Collection
Joy Bloser, NYU Graduate Intern, Sculpture Conservation
The Museum of Modern Art
All That Glitters is Not Gold (Or Silver): Technical Analysis and Treatment of Two Gilt Leather-Upholstered Sgabelli from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Sarah Towers, Objects and Paintings Conservation Technician
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
The Many Faces of Conservation: the Treatment of a Mixed Media Mural at the Salem National Historic Site
Sarah Freshnock, Pre-Program Intern, Paper Conservation Lab
National Park Service Historic Architecture, Conservation, and Engineering Center
Creative Technique and Curious Media in a Post-War German Painting
Anne Schaffer, Paintings Conservation Fellow
Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, Harvard Art Museums
