Online course on care of metals

MS223: Care of Metals
Instructor: David Harvey
Price: $475
July 2 - Aug 10, 2012

Description: Outdoor sculpture, silver tea service, gold jewelry,
axe head, wheel rim--metals are found in most museum collections and
may be stored or displayed indoor or outdoors depending on the
object. Learn how to identify different types of metal and their
alloys. Gain an understanding of how and why metals deteriorate and
methods for preventing deterioration from occurring or continuing.
The pros and cons of different popular treatments will be covered
along with recommendations for the least damaging approach to
treatment. Care of Metals provides a simplified explanation of the
chemistry and structure of metals, explaining the importance of the
galvanic series and electrochemistry in care strategies. Starting
with an overview of the history and function of metals and how they
are made, the course will cover guidelines for handling, labeling,
exhibiting and storing metals. An overview of treatments, including
cleaning, used on metals and how appropriate they are for the
long-term preservation of the metal object will help students make
care decisions when consulting with conservators.

Logistics: Participants in Care of Metals work through sections on
their own. Materials and resources include online literature, slide
lectures and dialog between students and the instructor through
online forums. The course is limited to 20 participants.

Care of Metals runs six weeks. To reserve a spot in the course,
please pay at <URL:http://www.collectioncare.org/tas/tas.html> If
you have trouble please contact Helen Alten at
helen<-at->collectioncare<.>org

The Instructor:

    Dave Harvey is currently a consultant to the producers of a new
    National Geographic Television Series, America's Lost Treasures,
    set in museums across the USA. David is also a senior
    conservator with Rosa Lowinger and Associates--specializing in
    Objects, Architecture, and Sculpture.

    He has thirty years of diverse experience in conservation,
    archaeological fieldwork, and American living history museum
    craftwork and interpretation. David was the archaeological
    conservator for the James River Institute for Archaeology, The
    Yorktown Archaeological trust, and the Virginia Company
    Foundation doing fieldwork, artifact cataloguing, scientific
    analysis, and the conservation and stabilization of diverse
    historical and prehistoric archaeological artifacts. He was the
    lab manager for the Metals and Arms conservation lab at Colonial
    Williamsburg. He was also responsible for the design and
    equipment specifications for the new Metals &Arms laboratory,
    X-radiography facility, and Analytical Laboratory in the DeWitt
    Wallace Collections and Conservation Building on the Bruton
    Heights School Education Center Campus. David was appointed Head
    of the Objects Conservation Department at The Rocky Mountain
    Conservation Center at the University of Denver, was the
    proprietor of his own professional conservation and consulting
    company Artifacts, and was the Senior Associate Conservator for
    Griswold Conservation Associates. David is a Professional
    Associate of The American Institute for Conservation (AIC) and
    has served as the local arrangements chair for the annual AIC
    meeting, program chair, chair, and emeritus chair of the Objects
    specialty group and editor of the New Materials and Research
    Column for the AIC News. David has pursued educational outreach
    during his career in diverse media such as scientific/technical
    journals, popular magazines and journals, television, and
    audio-visual lectures and workshops.

Brad Bredehoft for Helen Alten
Northern States Conservation Center


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