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

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

Salt Cured Proof Of Occupancy

Ron Siebler and Mark Birnbaum keep making great videos about historic preservation. This time the project involves a 155 year old curing shed on the Opel Lawrence Farmstead in Mesquite Texas, a clump of salty newspaper and Tish Brewer, a paper conservator.

A clump of newspaper, bricked by salt and sand, is unearthed from the dirt floor of a 155 year-old curing shed and provides a clue to its history.

Click the video link below to see the video on Vimeo
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Do you have a conservation or preservation project you would like to share? NTAAC would love to see it! Contact Brad at info@studiosixartconservation.com

Presentation On Gels In Conservation at the DMA Feb 23rd

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Jodie Utter, the Senior Paper Conservator at the Amon Carter has invited NTAAC to join her, Kimberly Kwan and Laura Hartman for an afternoon at the DMA.

The event titled, Gels in Conservation, an Afternoon of Talks, is hosted by the Dallas Museum of Art. The event will take place in the Founders Room, February 23, 2018 from 2:00  - 4:30pm.   

Jodie Utter will give an overview of the gels conference held in London last October.  Kimberly Kwan will present her work with gels, and Laura Hartman will present a treatment using gels on paintings. 

Gels In Conservation, an Afternoon of Talks

Friday, February 23^rd, 2 to 4:30pm

Founder's Room at the Dallas Museum Of Art

This event is free but please do RSVP.

RSVP: Laura Hartman lhartman@dma.org or Jodie Utter jodie.utter@cartermuseum.org

This is going to be very informative and a great reason to pull yourself away from your work desk. 

See you there,

Brad

PS: We'll be posting the notes from Jodie's presentation on the NTAAC blog/website. So keep an eye open for those.

Tour of Martin and Martin Fine Art Services Sept 21st

NTAAC is having a tour and lunch this Thursday Sept 21st.

Please join us Thursday, September 21st at 11am for a tour of Martin & Martin Fine Art Services. We'll be taking a look at their new 18,000 sq.ft warehouse with climate controlled storage and fabrication facilities. 

We'll follow up the tour with lunch at a nearby taqueria.

Thursday September 21st, 11am
Martin & Martin FAS

2819 Anode Lane,

Dallas TX 75220

Hope you can join us,

Brad

 

Art Conservation Happy Hour

Join NTAAC for our first Happy Hour of 2017. Wed. April 19th 6:00- 7:30...
We'll be talk about broken stuff while enjoying a cold beer or glass of wine.
This event is open to all art conservators and people, businesses, museums, organizations and societies who focus on the conservation, preservation, display or handling of art or historic artifacts. So pull yourself away from that work desk and lets talk about broken stuff!
We'll be meeting at a great little dive in the Exposition Park area called 8 Bells Alehouse.
Wednesday, April 19th 6:00- 7:30...
8 Bells Alehouse
831 Exposition ave
Dallas TX 75226 

Join us, Brad

Broken Stuff and Fried Fish Lunch

It's time we got together to eat some catfish and talked about broken stuff!

NTAAC is also looking for new Board Members! So if you would like to help build the NTAAC community drop by and raise your hand.

NTAAC Lunch

Thursday, April 28th 12:noon

Big Shucks

6232 E Mockingbird ln

Dallas TX 

See you there,

Brad

October 5th NTAAC Event - Discussion and Lunch

Do you know which conservation glass or plexiglas to choose for your next framing project? Join NTAAC and Jerry Cornelius of Canyon Creek Art, where he will discuss these conservation materials, how to decide which you should be using and what are the new products on the market. Jerry and staff have goodies and free items that they are going to be giving away. Who doesn't like free conservation items?

After our visit at Canyon Creek Art we will go across the street to Chiloso Mexican Bistro for lunch.


Monday October 5th, 12:30 pm
Canyon Creek Art
2051 North Central Expressway
Richardson, Texas 75080
Jerry Cornelius

Lunch to follow (across the street)
Chiloso Mexican Bistro: Fresh, Bold Tacos and Burritos
700 E. Campbell Road Suite 190
Richardson, TX 75081

Wednesday Art Conservation Fish Fry

It's time we all got together for a crispy fried fish lunch and talked about all our big projects, road trips and issues with glue.

Wednedsay June 24th 12:noon
Big Shucks
6232 E Mockingbird ln
Dallas TX

If you have been to a conservation event, conference or workshop we would love to hear about it. I just finished a workshop at the West Dean College in the UK and it was fantastic.

See you there,
Brad