Furniture Conservation Presentation at next NTAAC Event

Recent Conservation Projects By Alton Bowman

The North Texas Association for Art Conservation and the Dallas Museum of Art are happy to host a lecture by Alton Bowman; Recent Projects: Frames, Chairs and a Desk.  

Mr. Bowman is an art conservator who specializes in French, English and American furniture. He has a long history of working with museums and private collectors on some very important pieces of furniture, such as the Rosedown American Goth Bed on exhibit at the DMA. 

In this presentation he will highlight several new projects, and discuss the various conservation treatments he used on them. For those who work with fine antique furniture and those who work in wood this is a must attend event.

After the lecture we'll continue the discussion over lunch at the Klyde Warren Park food trucks.

Monday, September 9th at 12:00pm noon 

Dallas Museum of Art

1717 N. Harwood st

Dallas TX. 75201 

The DMA auditorium is open special just for this event, so please RSVP by September 5^th to Gabriela Truly at GTruly@DallasMuseumofArt.org. 

For more information about this event or future NTAAC events, please contact us at NTAAC@yahoo.com

See you there, 

Brad

NTAAC August Lunch

There's been some welcome rain these last few days, but I'm sure the August heat has finally found us in North Texas. That being said, how about lunch, indoors! 

Please join NTAAC, Tuesday, Aug 20th, 2013 at 12:00 noon for a casual lunch buffet at the Ali Baba Mediterranean Grill, Dallas.

Ali Baba Mediterranean Grill
1901 Abrams Road.
Dallas, Texas 75214


Also, mark you calendars for the September 9th NTAAC event. Alton Bowman will be talking at the DMA about some of his resent conservation projects. Should be really good! Stay tuned for more info.

Respirator Review And Spicy Lunch

Please join the North Texas Association for Art Conservation and Art Restorations Inc. on Wednesday, July 31, 2013 at 11:00 am for a review of respirator essentials. 

Cher Goodson and Kenn Darity will give us the low down on respirators such as; How to choose the correct respirator for your face, Which filters to choose for the materials you may be using, and How to care for your mask when not in use. Bring your respirators for review and we'll test them with banana oil.


And speaking of food, We'll have lunch across the street at Cafe Istanbul. Yum! This event is open to anyone who uses a respirator or may need to use one in the future. Please RSVP to NTAAC or contacting Cher at Art Restorations Inc.


Respirator Review and Test Fitting
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
11:00 am to after lunch

Art Restorations Inc.
7803 Inwood Road, Dallas, Texas 75209
214-350-0811

Cheers,
Brad

Cool Down at the NTAAC Happy Hour

On June 18th, NTAAC will be meeting up at the Elbow Room for cold drinks, pizza and casual conversation. It's happy hour with an artifact flair.


We'll start the cooling down around 6:00pm on the back patio. For those of you who have not been to the Elbow Room. It's a classy little dive with shuffle board, a patio and thin crust New York style pizza that is yumm. Located on Gaston Ave just west of the Baylor Medical Center

Tuesday, June 18th at 6:00pm
Elbow Room3010 Gaston AveDallas Tx.

As you all know, NTAAC is a social group made up of people who work with art, artifacts and/or historic objects. Every month we meet for some sort of event such as lunch, happy hour, a lecture or studio visit. If you would like to host an NTAAC meeting, or have suggestions for events, please contact us at NTAAC@yahoo.com

Big Turn Out For Emergency Workshop

Rebecca Elder from AMIGOS Library Services presented to an almost sold out crowd at the Emergency Preparedness, Response and Recovery Workshop. She did a great job of presenting a lot of information in a clear and organized format.

With the combined efforts of NTAAC, TAM and NETMA we were able to reach out to a much wider group of people, covering a wider range of professions, from art conservators to museum staff to art handlers and even a few art teachers.

One of the great take aways from the workshop was the supplies and resources list. Also learning that the famous Heritage Preservation Emergency Response and Salvage Wheel now comes as an app for your iPhone. Here's the link.

Coming next month join us for the NTAAC Happy Hour. A great chance to hang out with fellow art handling friends. Date and location to be announced soon.

First NTAAC Angel Day Big Success

The first NTAAC Angels Day was held at the Dallas Heritage Village. Evelyn Montgomery the Director of Exhibits and her assistant and Susan Finky chose a couple of really great projects for us to work on. We broke up into three groups.

The first group photographed, measured and checked museum tags on 28 quilts.

And there were some really wonderful quilts to be seen.

This may look like a map of a civil war battle field but it's actually the back of a very old crazy quilt.

The second group padded and boxed all the quilts for storage.

And the third group focused on cleaning some recently acquisitioned trunks.

 This royal portrait is one of the color lithograph decals that decorated one of the trunks.

Over all these were ideal projects for the NTAAC Angel Day. They were must do projects, and ones that would have taken several days forEvelyn's staff to complet. But with eight NTAAC Angels , we knocked it out and still had time to enjoy a picnic. So a big THANK YOU to all the wonderful people who donated their Saturday morning:
Evelyn Montgomery - Dallas Heritage Village
Susan Finky - Dallas Heritage Village
Tish Brewer - Center For Art Conservation
Lauren Callahan - Conservation Intern
Christina Januszewshi - Art conservation student
David Page - Center For Art Conservation
Evelyn Pate - Brown Mountain Art and Antique Restoration
Laura Pate - Brown Mountain Art and Antique Restoration
Melanie Sanford - Textile Preservation Services of Texas
Maria Sheets - Maria Sheets Studio
Brad Ford Smith - Studio Six Art Conservation

We're looking for an NTAAC Angels Day project for next year!!!

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.