North Texas Art Conservation Symposium Postponed

I am sad to be posting this announcement that the North Texas Art Conservation Symposium has been postponed until later this year. We will be hosting this event as soon as the all clear for social normality is announced, so keep an eye on your inbox. Until then read a good book and write a few letters.

Brad

North Texas Art Conservation Symposium April 7th

Join us for our annual afternoon talk with five art conservators from Dallas/Fort Worth museums, library archives, and private practice as they discuss the challenges of preserving our cultural heritage. This symposium sponsored by the City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs and the North Texas Association for Art Conservation aims to broaden community awareness of recent art conservation projects in Texas. Attendees with an interest in art, history and science will enjoy this opportunity to look beyond the surface and witness the challenges faced by art conservators as they evaluate and implement treatments to forestall the march of time.

This year’s five panelists are:

Tish Brewer, “A Foray into Artificial Anatomy: Conserving a Papier-Mache Model of a Horse's Hoof”

Jesse Hunt, “The Conservation of Distinctiones Dictionum Theologicum, Strassburg 1474.”

Diane Knauf, “The Gentling Collection: Treatment of Multi-Layered Works on Transparent Paper”

Elena Torok and Lance Lander, “Recent Projects and Conservation of Time-Based Media”

This event is free and open to the public. Tickets available through Eventbrite

Tuesday, April 7, 1:00 PM– 5:00 PM
Latino Cultural Center 

2600 Live Oak St.

Dallas TX 75204

For more information please contact the North Texas Association for Art Conservation at NTAAC@yahoo.com

Call For New NTAAC Board Nominees

NTAAC (The North Texas Association for Art Conservation) is currently accepting nominees for its new Board. Nominations are open to all professionals in the art conservation, preservation, museum services and affiliated fields. You can nominate a colleague or nominate yourself. The elected candidates will serve for a 2 year term helping direct and grow this important resource for the art and history community of North Texas.

Visit the NTAAC Blog for an overview of past events at:

North Texas Association for Art Conservation

Please send your nominee's name and contact info to Brad no later than Friday, 1/31/2020. 

Brad Ford Smith

NTAAC@yahoo.com

Art Conservation October Happy Hour

Join us for the next NTAAC Happy Hour. Let's catch up and also talk about the recent NTAAC Conservation Symposium held last August.  Looking for some feedback .... how can it be better, more inclusive, more impactful? Who knows, maybe you already have a topic you would like to present at the next symposium?!

Tuesday Oct 15th at 6:00 

Join us at the one of the best pizza places in Dallas: 

Social Pie

5855 Maple Ave

Dallas 75235

See you there,

Brad

Art Conservation Conversations Event Aug 20th

Curious about who takes care of art and cultural property? Go behind-the-scenes with 8 local art conservators.  An afternoon all about history, conservation treatments and restoration of fine art. Come hear conservators in private practice discuss the care taking of cultural objects from murals, to NASA chairs! It's all about conserving some of the best art and saving it for later.  

Tuesday, August 20, 1:00 PM– 5:00 PM 
Latino Cultural Center 

2600 Live Oak St.

Dallas TX
Sponsored by The City of Dallas & the North Texas Association for Art Conservation

Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/381691749156415/

This event is free and open to the public so come join us and invite your colleagues. 

See you there,

Brad

A Thursday Lunch To Talk About Broken Stuff

It's been too long since we all got together over some golden fried filets of fish and talked about broken stuff!!! Let's fix that by meeting up this Thursday at Big Shucks. 

I know everyone has been working hard on some interesting projects, exhibits, presentations... and we would all love to hear about them. This would also be a great time to talk about the future of conservation, preservation and restoration in DFW. So get out of your studio, lab, office and join the conversation.

This Thursday April 25th at 12:30

Big Shucks

6232 E Mockingbird Ln

Dallas, TX 75214

See you there,

Brad

NTAAC Meetup Looks at the Artwork of Tracy Hicks

This NTAAC get together will be at the Sp/n Gallery at UTD and will focus on the artwork of Tracy Hicks. Tracy approached art with a documentation/scientific flair, creating works in many different mediums including works on paper, video, photography, bronze, plastic resin, and taxidermy just to name a few. 

This retrospective exhibit is a great opportunity us to observe and discuss the long term conservation issues surrounding a wide range of modern art mediums. 

In attendance with be Assistant Gallery Director Brian Scott and Ron Siebler. They will be sharing their special insights on the creation and installation of this unusual exhibit.

We'll meet at the gallery on Thursday, Oct 18th at 4:00pm. 

Sp/n Gallery

UTD campus

3020 Stewart Dr

Richardson, TX 75080

We'll follow the conversation with a Happy Hour at the Northside Drafthouse

As always this NTAAC event is open to people, businesses, museums, organizations, societies and students who work with conservation, preservation, display or handling of art or historic artifacts. Please feel free to share this event notice.

Pull yourself away from that work desk and let's talk about broken stuff!

See you in the gallery,
Brad