Name: (Textiles) Tips Session on Mount Making: Materials and Methods for Exhibition and Display
Start: 2015-05-15T10:30:00-0400
End: 2015-05-15T12:00:00-0400

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(Textiles) Tips Session on Mount Making: Materials and Methods for Exhibition and Display

Please join us for a practical session on mount making tips for textiles. This session will focus on mounting solutions for exhibition and display of textiles and costume. Topics to be covered include mannequin arm attachments, mounting hats on bald mannequins, mounting a paper backed sampler, reusable slant board mounts, flexible mounts for pre-Columbian Wari tunics, and tips for mounting textiles with magnets. The 10 minute tips presentations will be followed by a question and answer session and hands-on time for presenters to share materials and suppliers lists.

Speakers

Joy Gardiner

Assistant Director of Conservation, Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library

Robin Hanson-[Fellow]

Associate Conservator of Textiles, Cleveland Museum of Art

Robin Hanson has managed the textile conservation lab at the Cleveland Museum of Art for the past 17 years. In 1997 she completed graduate training in conservation, with a specialization in textiles, at the Winterthur / University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation. She is a... Read More →

Susan C. Heald

Textile Conservator, National Museum of the American Indian

Susan Heald has been the National Museum of the American Indian’s textile conservator since 1994, where she has supervised many pre-program interns and post-graduate fellows. Prior to NMAI, she served as the Minnesota Historical Society’s textile conservator, and was a Smithsonian... Read More →

Denise Krieger Migdail

Conservator, Asian Art Museum

Denise Migdail has held the title of textile conservator at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco since March 2006. Working in a multidisciplinary lab, the work is largely exhibition driven: preparing textiles for display and travel. Prior to her employment at the museum, Denise worked... Read More →

Laura Mina-[PA]

Conservator of Textiles, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture

Laura Mina is the Conservator of Textiles with the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture. Prior to joining NMAAHC, she served as Head of the Textile Conservation Lab with Winterthur Museum and Affiliated Assistant Professor of the Winterthur/University... Read More →

Shelly Uhlir

Exhibits Specialist, Mountmaker, National Museum of the American Indian

Shelly Uhlir works in the conservation department at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC where she has been staff mount and mannequin maker since 2001. She has collaborated with conservators for over 30 years and has been a TSG and OSG member... Read More →

Friday May 15, 2015 10:30am - 12:00pm EDT
Orchid B-D 400 SE 2nd Ave, Miami, FL 33131

Specialty Session, Textiles

AIC's 43rd Annual Meeting