January 1999
Helen McKay and James Bourdeau met with Gilbert
Gignac to discuss the conservation of portrait miniatures in the
collection of the National Archives of Canada and the development
of training opportunities for conservators who will be responsible
for this treatment.
Brian Laurie-Beaumont visited the Kelowna Art
Gallery to review issues of security and collection preservation
as well as storage and display areas as the background for future
building redevelopment; he toured the facility and interviewed all
staff as well as select members of the board.
CCI Seminars
"Storage Planning for Cultural Facilities" Siegfried
Rempel and Deborah Stewart at the Association of Manitoba Museums
in Brandon, MB, January 15–16.
February 1999
At the historic Haskell Opera House, Stanstead,
QC, James Bourdeau provided supervision and guidance for a film
crew shooting several scenes for a forthcoming television miniseries
"The Fabulous Showman P.T. Barnum: Inventing the American Age."
At the request of the Mohawk Native Council, Jane Sirois
and Tom Stone visited Akwesasne to analyse a number of masks and
figurines that had recently been repatriated from a museum in the
United States for the presence of arsenic and mercury.
At the Lester B. Pearson Building in Ottawa,
Bob Arnold, Kate Helwig, and Jeremy Powell carried out a comprehensive
examination and study of the condition and conservation needs of
a large painted ceramic mural "Veneration of the White Collar Worker,
No. 1 and No. 2" created by artist Gathie Falk in 1973.
Renée Dancause gave a presentation to the
Ottawa Doll Guild on three dolls conserved at CCI.
Siegfried Rempel and Janet Wagner visited the Museum
for Textiles, Toronto, to conduct a site visit of the museum's
storage facilities.
Michael Harrington presented the conservation component
of Federal Heritage Buildings Review Office (FHBRO) Maintenance
and Repairs Workshop, in Ottawa, to property managers from across
Canada; he also presented a 2-day workshop "Furniture and Decorative
Arts" to students in the Art Conservation Techniques program
at Sir Sandford Fleming College, Peterborough, ON.
Scott Williams presented a 3-day workshop "Plastics
in Museums" to students in the Master of Art Conservation program
at Queen's University, Kingston, ON.
March 1999
At the Musée de la civilisation in
Quebec, QC, Scott Williams performed on-site infrared spectroscopic
analysis of various objects in the museum collection, and discussed
the implication of the chemical composition of these objects on
their conservation and curation.
Jan Vuori attended a meeting of the Steering
Committee of the North American Textile Conservation Conference
in Washington, DC, to select the program for Textile Symposium 2000
(scheduled for March 29–31, 2000, in Asheville, NC); she also
visited the National Gallery of Art to examine a large silkscreen
by Matisse that had been treated with a suction disk, a treatment
similar to one being carried out in the Textile Lab at CCI.
James Bourdeau presented a lecture "The Use of
Additives for the Stabilization of Surface Coatings" to students
in the Master of Art Conservation program at Queen's University,
Kingston, ON.
Jean Tétreault gave a series of seminars
on the selection of display, storage, and transportation materials
in three European countries: in France to students of the DESS
program in preventive conservation of the Université de Paris
I and to professional conservators of the ARAAFU (members
of the Réunion des musées de France could attend
either presentation); in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, to members
of the Association Suisse de conservation et restauration;
and in Sweden to students of the Conservation Institute of Göteborg
University. He also presented a paper on storage and display
materials during the seminar "La conservazione Preventiva delle
Raccolte Museali" sponsored by Instituto per i Beni Artistici
Culturali e Naturali della Regione Emilia Romagna in Ferrare,
Italy; and a workshop "Commercial Coatings for Storage and Display
Purposes" to students in the Master of Art Conservation program
at Queen's University, Kingston, ON.
Bob Barclay was on a panel discussion regarding
conservation and restoration of historic musical instruments at
a conference of the Historic Brass Society at the Cité
de la musique in Paris.
CCI Seminars
"Emergency and Disaster Preparedness for Cultural
Institutions" Deborah Stewart and David Tremain to the Archives
Association of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC, March 18–19.
"The Preservation of Optical Disks and Magnetic
Media Records" Stefan Michalski and Joe Iraci to the Association
of Newfoundland and Labrador Archives in St. John's, NF, March
29–30.
April 1999
Debra Daly Hartin presented a half-day workshop
"Making It Last: Taking Care of Your Art" at the Art Gallery
of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON, April 25, 1999. The workshop, aimed
at the general public, provided the opportunity for members of the
general public to learn more about the basic care of paintings on
fabric and wood supports.
Tom Stone presented a lecture on materials and
deterioration processes to students of the Aboriginal Cultural
Interpretation program of Sir Sandford Fleming College, Peterborough,
ON; the lecture was presented via two-way video conference from
the college to the students at the Rainy Lake Ojibway Education
Authority in northwestern Ontario.
CCI Seminars
"Archaeological Conservation: Specialized Techniques
and Research for Wet Objects" Carl Bigras, Malcolm Bilz, Nancy Binnie,
Cliff Cook, Tara Grant, David Grattan, Judy Logan, Lyndsie Selwyn,
and Gregory Young to a group of 22 people from Norway, France,
the United Kingdom, the United States, and various parts of Canada,
at CCI, April 12–15.
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