ICA - Art Conservation

Just out, ICA's Quarterly Newsletter! It's all here...a Civil War Flag, Joe Namath, Mickey Mouse, Polymer Scientists and Aerospace Engineers. @#artconservation4thenation #artconservation #icaart https://conta.cc/43I0Re8

The Cleveland International Film Festival (CIFF48) and community partner ICA-Art Conservation are proud to announce the film: MINTED. A renegade group of outsider artists is thrust into the global limelight when they embrace a powerful new technology but must reckon with the controversies that threaten to collapse the wild world of NFTs. Join Minted's Nicholas Bruckman (Director/Producer/Writer) & Shawn Hazelett (Producer/Writer) for a conversation about their film, NFTs, and the art world. Join us Wednesday, April 3, at 10:30 EST for a conversation with the filmmakers of MINTED. This event is free but registration is required. https://bit.ly/3PB3fxu

Working on a new website. So excited. With a new company...watch this space...a new dawn is coming. #icaaart #artconservation4thenation

Working on a new website. So excited. With a new company...watch this space...a new dawn is coming. #icaaart #artconservation4thenation

GRANT OPPORTUNITY: IMLS and the American Institute for Conservation & Foundation for Advancement in Conservation are accepting applications for the Collections Assessment for Conservation (CAP)! The program is designed to help small and mid-sized museums better care for their collections. #IMLSgrants A CAP assessment is a study of an institution’s collections, buildings, and building systems, as well as its collections care policies and procedures. Learn more and apply before February 28, 2024 ➡️ https://lnkd.in/g4mi-Ui

ICA Executive Director Holly Witchey (okay me) was a guest on the "Ideal Idealism" podcast (Episode 20) last week talking about conservation, saving art, and saving stories. #cityyearcle_ideal. This hard working group of individuals have been interviewing so many interesting people around the Cle. #icaart #artconservation #artconservation4thenation https://lnkd.in/eJZssNKk

A recent article in AIC Journal discusses a type of spring stretcher for paintings, designed by Richard Buck, the Director of ICA - Art Conservation in the 1950s. The stretcher used an off-the-shelf coating for the stainless steel stretcher springs. Sometimes the coating includes cadmium, and sometimes zinc as a sacrificial (protective) coating, while the zinc corrosion is non-toxic, the cadmium corrosion produces a toxic cadmium salt. This is a known issue, not new. If you have questions, we have an information sheet, please email us. info@ica-artconservation.org. You can also find the information on our website.: https://lnkd.in/eq6dMVqV

Thank you to the The Callahan Foundation for their support of ICA - Art Conservation in their Fall 2023 grant cycle. ICA received a grant to support the work of Marika Kesler, ICA's new textile conservator, during her first year in the lab. Here's a little video of Marika explaining a method for lace storage. #icaart #artconservation #ArtConservation4theNation

Do you work at a museum? Do you have something that needs conservation or preservation--an object, a collection, your storage? Time to plan and luckily Galley Systems has released its Grants for Museum Conservation Guide just in time to be of help to you. https://lnkd.in/enPCYu2h

New York looking for a State Archivist. You will have the opportunity to work with great people like Cher Schneider. See link below.