Conference on exhibition planning

Conference:

"Conservation and Exhibition Planning: Material Testing for Design,
    Display, and Packing"
McEvoy Auditorium
Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery
8th and G Streets NW
Washington DC, 20001
Thursday - Friday, November 19-20, 2015

Presented by the Lunder Conservation Center and Foundation of the
American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works

This two-day conference is an opportunity for exhibition designers,
mount makers, registrars, collection managers, conservators, and
scientists to explore the challenges of how materials are selected
for use with art objects.

The planning for appropriate collection care before, during, and
after display is dependent on accessing reliable information about
the materials we use.  The production of fabrics, painted surfaces,
mounts, foams, and board materials facilitate the creative display
of art objects.  Understanding how these materials will react with
artworks over time is a fundamentally challenging, but necessary,
undertaking.

This conference will convey practical considerations that facilitate
and benefit collection care in museum exhibition workflows, and how
they impact staff across departments.  Presentations will focus on
designing exhibitions and fabricating display furniture; strategic
approaches to collection care during the exhibition implementation
process; designing storage environments; conservation work spaces;
interpretation and sharing of analytical results from Oddy testing
and alternatives to the Oddy test; and monitoring how materials
change over time.

For more information, including a full program schedule of speakers
and registration instructions, please visit:

    <URL:http://www.conservation-us.org/materialstesting>

Support for this conference comes from the Lunder Conservation
Center and the Foundation of the American Institute for Conservation
of Historic and Artistic Works Endowment for Professional

Development, which was created by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation, and donations from members of the American Institute for
Conservation and its friends.

Professional development events are made possible with the
assistance of many AIC members, but no AIC membership dues were used
to create or present this course.

Christopher Wayner
Program Coordinator
Lunder Conservation Center
Smithsonian American Art Museum
202-633-8378
Fax: 202-633-5813


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