Local and National Disaster with Lunch

Museum Disasters: Who Are You Going To Call?!

Join NTAAC at the DMA for Ms. Gina Minks' lecture on local and national disaster assistance organizations 

Ms Minks is the Imaging and Preservation Service Manager at Amigos Library Services Inc., one of the largest library service networks in the nation. Her experience in distater recovery includes being deployed to Galveston, Texas after Hurricane Ike.

Still hungry for disastrous and broken conversation? 

Join NTAAC for the after lecture NTAAC lunch at the historic downtown El Fenix. 1601 McKinney Ave, just two blocks from the DMA.

Monday, May 21st at 12:00 noon

C3 Theater

Dallas Museum of Art

1717 North Harwood St.

Dallas TX, 75201

This lecture is free and open to the public. Please RSVP if you wish to receive free parking at the DMA. gtruly@DallasMuseumofArt.org

To find out more about the North Texas Association for Art Conservation visit the NTAAC website at http://ntaac.blogspot.com/

NTAAC and the DMA May Lecture

Museum Disasters: Who Are You Going To Call?!

Well, you could call Gina Minks... Better yet, you can join us at the DMA for her lecture on that very subject. This 30 minute lecture will focus on local as well as national assistance offered to museums and their staff, weather that disaster is the results of leaky pipers, fire, or even tornados.

Ms Minks is the Imaging and Preservation Service Manager at Amigos Library Services Inc., one of the largest library service networks in the nation. Her experience in distater recovery includes being deployed to Galveston, Texas after Hurricane Ike.

So grab your note pad and join us:
May 21st at 12:00 noon
C3 Theater
Dallas Museum of Art
1717 North Harwood St.
Dallas TX, 75201

This lecture is free and open to the public, but if you RSVP by May 17th you will receive free parking at the DMA. gtruly@DallasMuseumofArt.org

Still hungry for disastrous conversation? 
Join us for the after lecture NTAAC lunch at the historic downtown El Fenix. 1601 McKinney Ave, just two blocks from the DMA.

Millard Sheets Mosaics, NTAAC Studio Tour

The April NTAAC Lunch and studio tour was a very successful, with good food and a wonderful tour of a conservation project at the Michael Van Enter Studio.

Michael and his staff are working on about 90 mosaic panels, some of them are from Millard Sheets. 

The organic shaped mosaics required custom scaffolding and cradles.

These works of art came very close to being demolished due to their large size and tremendous weight. That would have been a real disaster. 

And speaking of disasters,  the May NTAAC Event will be a lecture at the Dallas Museum of Art by Gina L. B. Minks entitled Museum Disasters: Who Are You Going To Call? More on that in the next NTAAC Update.

NTAAC Lunch and Studio Tour April 25th

As a bit of a teaser for the NTAAC April 25th lunch, Michael Van Enter sent over a few photos of the Millard Sheets mosaics he has been restoring.

We'll be stopping by his studio for a tour right after we have lunch at Ali Baba's Mediterranean Grill 1901 Abrams rd, Dallas TX. The buffet starts at 12:00 noon this Wednesday, April 25th. Then we'll roll over to see these wonderful mosaics. 

NTAAC April Buffet and Studio Tour

Join us for a tasty lunch and a studio tour April 25th, 12:00noon at Ali Baba's Mediterranean Grill 1901 Abrams rd We'll enjoy a tasty buffet of conservation conversation.

THEN, it's off to the Michael Van Enter Studio for a look at the restoration Michael is doing on the Millard Sheets mosaics that where rescued from the demolished Dallas Mercantile Bank.


Great article about it in Art And Antiques magazine and Local enthusiast Angel Hunt has some great photos on her Flickr site.

NTAAC Conservation Roundtable TAM 2012

The Conservation Roundtable that NTAAC organized for the 2012 TAM conference played to a full house. With the session broken up into 10 minute time slots all the attendees were able to converse with each of the 5 art conservators. And when that final bell rang, few people were ready to leave.

Perhaps NTAAC will organize another session for the 2013 TAM conference in Waco.

NTAAC hosting Conservation Roundtable

The Texas Association of Museum (TAM) conference starts on Tuesday. This year the 5 day conference is being held down by the River Walk in San Antonio.

NTAAC will be hosting a session on Wednesday called Conservation Roundtable. We'll have 5 art conservators sitting at 5 roundtables. Each conservator will be addressing questions that pertains to their field of expertise:

Paper- Tish Brewer - the Center for Art Conservation, Dallas TX
Paintings- Anne Zanikos - Anne Zanikos Art Conservation, San Antonio TX
Textiles- Melanie Sanford - Textile Preservation Services of Texas, Dallas TX
Photographs- Corinne Dune - DBA Photogragh and Paper Conservation Services, San Marcos TX
Furniture- Brad Ford Smith - Studio Six Art Conservation, Dallas TX

With this line up we should be able to answer most of your questions.