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

NTAAC Golden Fried Fish Lunch

It's time we all got together and talked about broken stuff!

It's also time to bring on some new NTAAC Board Members! So if you would like to help build the NTAAC community drop by and raise your hand.

NTAAC Lunch
Thursday, April 28th
Big Shucks
6232 E Mockingbird ln
Dallas TX

See you there,
Brad

Art Conservation Angel Day May 11th

The original Angel Day was started at the American Institute for Conservation (AIC) annual conference, which brings together a lot of art conservators into one place. Angel Day asks for volunteers to help a small local museum or historic collection on a small project. By donating a little of time and skills, simple projects like sorting files, applying catalogue numbers to objects or dusting old victorian parlors (projects that are the bane of most institutions) can be accomplished in a single day. The AIC Angel Day program has been so successful that NTAAC is adopting the idea.

So, we are happy to announce the first annual NTAAC Angle Day. On Saturday, May 11th we will be meeting up with Evelyn Montgomery at the Dallas Heritage Village at 9:30am.

The focus of our project will be rehousing and photographing the boxed textile collection. Of course if a big bunch of people show up I am sure Evelyn can find other things on her to do list for us to work.

Saturday May 11^th, 2013
9:30 am till we get tired
Dallas Heritage Village
1515 S. Harwood st
Dallas TX 75215

Please RSVP to NTAAC@yahoo.com this will give us and Evelyn and idea of how many volunteers to expect for the day.

This event is open to all members and friends of NTAAC. Please bring a bagged lunch and water. Wear long pants and sensible closed-toe shoes. You are also welcome to bring your kits and safety equipment. You never know what Evelyn may come up with for the group to do.

NTAAC looks forward to continuing Angel Day as an annual event, with that in mind, if you know of collections that could benefit from a day of conservator/curator help please let us know.