{"id":11832,"date":"2015-01-20T15:50:23","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T20:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/?p=11832"},"modified":"2015-01-20T15:50:23","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T20:50:23","slug":"call-for-papers-conservation-and-exhibition-planning-material-testing-for-design-display-and-packing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2015\/01\/20\/call-for-papers-conservation-and-exhibition-planning-material-testing-for-design-display-and-packing\/","title":{"rendered":"CALL FOR PAPERS: Conservation and Exhibition Planning: Material Testing for Design, Display, and Packing"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Lunder Conservation Center and the Foundation for the American Institute for Conservation, present
\nConservation and Exhibition Planning: Material Testing for Design, Display, and Packing<\/strong>
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\nDonald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture
\nMcEvoy Auditorium
\n800 G Street NW (8th and G Street)
\nWashington, D.C. 20001
\nThis two-day event, hosted by the Lunder Conservation Center, on November 19 and 20, 2015, will be an opportunity for exhibition designers, mount makers, registrars, collection managers, conservators, and scientists to explore the challenges of how materials are selected for use with art objects.
\nThe planning for appropriate collection care before, during, and after display is dependent on accessing reliable information about the materials we use. The production of fabrics, painted surfaces, mounts, foams, and board materials present many opportunities for the creative display of art objects. Understanding how these materials will react with artworks over time is a fundamentally challenging, but necessary, undertaking.
\nThis conference will seek to convey practical considerations that facilitate and benefit collection care in museum exhibition workflows, and how they impact staff across departments. We hope to focus a large part of this conference on advances in the field of conservation science, in order to grant participants access to the available resources that address the challenging question of how the materials used in display and storage environments interact with the objects contained within. A particular focus of the conference will be the interpretation and sharing of analytical results from Oddy testing and alternatives to the Oddy test.
\nCall for Papers: Deadline March 13, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n