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Friday September 26th: Talks 9:00-10:00. Coffee in the Museum's Pavilion 10:00-11:00. Tour of the Bowdoin Museum Collections 11:15-11:20. Zuckert Classroom, Welcome 11:20-11:50. Jessica Chloros (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum) Cracking the Case: Conserving an Eggshell Piece by Piece 11:50-12:10. Saffie Patel (Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies) Mist Opportunities: Tailoring a new Lining Technique for John Singer Sargent’s Daffodils in a Vase (c.1880) 12:10-12:40. Eric Harrelson (Miami University in Oxford, OH). The Onion as it is Cooked or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Collection 12:40-2:20. Lunch break in the dining hall & time to visit to the Peary Mac-Millan Arctic Museum on campus. 2:40-3:10. Ingrid Neuman (Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art) Alchemy, Artists and Art Conservation: What is our Role and Responsibility to the Public? 3:10-3:40. Kaela Nurmi (Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies). Syringes to Neon: Conservation of Two Charlotte Moorman Cello Sculptures 3:40-4:10. Gianfranco Pocobene (Gianfranco Pocobene Studio) Going In Blind (Almost): The Uncertainties of Taking on Large-Scale Mural Projects in Private Practice 4:10-5:40. Ellen Promise (Private Practice) Dual Devotion: Balancing the Roles of Artist’s Assistant and Art Conservator in Working with Living Artists 4:40. Closing remarks. 5:30. Reception & Dinner at Dutchman's (Fort Andross Mill 14 Maine St. Brunswick, ME 04011) Pizza, Salad, and Dessert. Saturday September 27th: Tours (choice of 1) Each of the locations is an 7 minute walk from one another. Tours are first come first served, max 15 people. Tour 1. Wiscasset, ME Historic New England tours with Michaela Neiro 10 am Castle Tucker A Time Capsule of Victorian Taste Discussion will include wallpaper treatments, inpainting grain paint, select textile and objects treatments, and the general house environment. 11 am Nickels- Sortwell House A Home Becomes A Hotel Discussion around the inhabitants of the house and the passage of time. Tour 2. Portland, ME with Gianfrano Pocobene & Nina Roth Wells Arrive early to find public parking, some info on parking in Portland can be found on the PMA’s website. 10 am Victoria Mansion A time capsule of high end decoration in antebellum America Join director Tim Brosnihan and paintings conservator Gianfranco Pocobene for discussion including the history of the house and the preservation/conservation currently being undertaken on both interior wall decorations and exterior stone work. 11am Portland Museum of Art Maine paintings conservator Nina Roth-Wells will walk you through the museum discussing some of her treatments. |