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What if the ICA earned a penny every time you
searched the Internet? Or how about if a percentage of
every purchase you made online went to support our
mission? Well, now it can!
GoodSearch.com is a new Yahoo-powered search engine that donates half its advertising revenue, about a penny per search, to the charities its users designate. Use it just as you would any search engine, get quality search results from Yahoo, and watch the donations add up! GoodShop.com is a new online shopping mall which donates up to 37 percent of each purchase to your favorite cause! Hundreds of great stores including Amazon, Target, Gap, Best Buy, ebay, Macy's, and Barnes & Noble have teamed up with GoodShop and every time you place an order, you'll be supporting your favorite cause. Just go to www.goodsearch.com and enter "Intermuseum Conservation Association" as the charity you want to support. And be sure to spread the word! |
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In addition to the wide array of conservation and
preservation services we offer, the ICA also maintains
a state-of-the-art temperature- and humidity-controlled
storage facility.
We make space available on a short- or long-term basis, for institutions or individuals. We handle all types of items, from traveling exhibitions in transit to personal collections of any kind. Objects in storage are always available to their owners during our regular operating hours, or at other times by prior arrangement. The facility is capable of accomodating objects of all shapes and sizes, and has a sixteen-foot entryway adjacent to an environmentally-controlled loading dock. A multi-tiered monitoring system (including 24-hour armed response) secures the entire facility. Despite all of these amenities, storage rates are very affordable. We are happy to work with an individual or institutional client to tailor a storage area to meet your collection's unique needs. Contact Operations Manager Christopher Pelrine at 216.658.8700 for further information and rates. |
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Join nationally-known photograph and paper
conservator Mr. Gary Albright for this hands-on,
full-day workshop, which will be held April 11th at the
Cleveland Public Library Lakeshore Facility. The Ohio
Preservation Council is a co-sponsor of this
program.
Participants will learn to determine what types of historic photographs and negatives they have in their collections, so they can make informed storage and treatment decisions. This class is open to anyone with an interest in the topic, but will be particularly helpful for collections managers in museums, historical societies, and libraries/archives. Registration fees are $85 for ICA/OPC members and $100 for non-members. |
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On Monday, June 2nd, the ICA will be the beneficiary of
a "Johnny Mango Monday." Johnny Mango
World Cafe & Bar offers Monday fundraisers to
local non-profit organizations. Supporters of the ICA
who eat at Johnny Mango will also be contributing
20% of the cost of their meal to support our
mission.
The ICA will be holding an Open House the same day, to offer our supporters another reason to visit Ohio City. We'll be having a drawing at the end of the day of all visitors to the lab and the prize will be a free year of membership in the ICA, with benefits including discounts on conservation services. If you would like to have a great meal and support the preservation of our common cultural heritage at the same time, come to the Westside on June 2nd. Participants MUST present a flyer identifying themselves as ICA supporters or credit will NOT be given for the purchase; flyers are available at the ICA Conservation Center and on our website. |
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The ICA has been fortunate to have a number of
new staff members join our ranks in the past few
months. Dottie Cooper became our Office
Manager. Christopher Zahner joined the paper
department as Assistant Preparator. Lou Cinda
Holt is our new Client Liaison and Registrar.
Anne Cole Goodwill moved from Williamsburg,
Virginia to become an ICA Objects Conservation
Assistant. And Kate Payne is finishing out a
third-year internship she began at the Cleveland
Museum of Art in our objects department.
We also bid a fond farewell to staff members who have moved on to the next stages of their careers. Amanda Mikolic became a Curatorial Assistant in the Medieval Art Department of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Charlie Eiben is now a Managing Director for MidWest Fine Art Service & Transportation Co. Sylvia Schweri moved to California and then temporarily to Egypt to conserve ancient archaeological artifacts. Mike Jones now works closer to home at a print shop in Oberlin. Paintings Fellow Jennifer Lis returned home to Michigan to become Conservator of Collections for the Mackinac State Historic Parks. And Shiho Sasaki will soon move to California to join the staff of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. We wish them all well in their latest endeavors. |
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Over twenty participants from across the state of Ohio
(and one from South Dakota!) came together in the
ICA Conservation Center for our February 2nd
workshop, "Textiles: From Household Goods to
Museum Artifacts."
Textile conservator Camille Myers Breeze, founder of Museum Textiles Services in Andover, MA, taught the full-day class. Topics included basic textile identification, understanding and arresting agents of deterioration, appropriate handling techniques, and various methods of storing textiles. Participants were given the opportunity to practice rolling and folding textiles, including items generously loaned from the study collection of the Western Reserve Historical Society. As we do at each of our educational programs, we surveyed the participants to ask what other topics they or their institutions are interested to learn more about. The most popular response? Bring Camille back for another, more advanced textile workshop! If you have suggestions for programs you would like to attend, please contact ICA Field Services Officer Nicole Hayes. |
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The ICA was grateful to receive a recent
capacity building grant from the Ohio Arts
Council.
According to the OAC, "The purpose of the Capacity Building Program is to recognize that sometimes Ohio's arts organizations can do the most good for their constituents, artists, and communities by spending time working to improve their internal capabilities." The ICA applied for the grant to bring in Yosi Pozeilov, Senior Photographer at the Conservation Center of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Pozeilov is an educator on the subjects of digital photography and Photoshop for conservators, and he has taught numerous workshops for groups including the American Institute for Conservation. The Kelvin Smith Library at Case Western Reserve University geneously agreed to allow ICA the use of a computer lab for two days in February, during which time the entire conservation and technician staff was trained in more effective and efficient methods of shooting and labeling digital images, color correction, and image file storage. |
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The Library of
Congress and the Foundation
Center have recently compiled a new
web-based fundraising guide to help the preservation
community save the nation's millions of at-risk
artifacts for future generations.
The guide, Foundation Grants for Preservation in Libraries, Archives, and Museums, is available for free download at the Library of Congress web site. "America's collections are essential and they are at risk. We are gratified that the Library of Congress and the Foundation Center are answering the conservation 'call to action' with the publication of this important guide," said Anne-Imelda Radice, director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the primary source of federal support for the nation's libraries and museums. Foundation Grants for Preservation in Libraries, Archives, and Museums features information on 1,725 grants awarded by 474 foundations from 2003 through 2007 for projects related to preservation and conservation. The guide is presented in PDF file format for easy on-screen scanning or downloading. The information is drawn from the Foundation Center's extensive database of grants awarded by U.S. foundations. The guide also includes links to additional useful information at the Center's web site, including its free Foundation Finder look-up tool and tutorials on proposal writing. |
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April 11, 2008
Photographic Processes: History and Identification Cleveland Public Library, Lakeshore Facility Cleveland, OH Spaces are still available for this hands-on, one-day workshop taught by photography expert Gary Albright. Registration is required and forms are available on the ICA website. April 19, 2008 Ohio Association of Historical Societies and Museums (OAHSM) Region 3 (Northeast) Meeting Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens Akron, OH April 28, 2008 Lanigan and Malone Morning Radio Show WMJI Majic 105.7FM We'll let you in on a secret--ICA will be the mystery guest in Lanigan and Malone's weekly "COSE Small Business Spotlight" segment. Be sure to tune in at 8:30AM! June 2, 2008 Johnny Mango Fundraiser and ICA Open House Please come out to Ohio City for a fun day of eating, drinking, and supporting the arts! The ICA will be offering free conservation center tours and Johnny Mango will donate 20% of all monies from ICA supporters who eat there, all day long. See the article above for more details. |
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Nicole Hayes, Field Services Officer
Intermuseum Conservation Association
216-658-8700
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