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May 2011
 - Vol 5, No 3
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The Vitrolite Building, home of the ICA Conservation Center. Photo by Chuck Mintz.


What an incredible spring it has been for the ICA! After our very successful special event celebrating the largest collaborative conservation project in our organization's history, we have received FOUR awards in the past month, recognizing various facets of our work. We were so proud we wanted to share the news with you, our members and friends. So without further ado we present--for the first time since this e-newsletter began--a special bonus issue of ICA News Online!
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ICA Executive Director Albert Albano was recently named a winner of the Rome Prize in the area of Historic Preservation and Conservation. The prize is offered annually through the American Academy in Rome. Winners receive a stipend to spend six months to two years studying and working at the AAR and traveling across Italy.

Albano will leave in September for eleven months, during which time he will conduct a physical and cultural analysis of masterpieces by Italian Renaissance and Baroque artists. His study will focus on how artists' materials have caused the appearance of their works to change over time, and how those appearances have been further altered by conservators from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries.
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ICA was so proud to have our Education and Outreach Program receive the 2011 Merit Award from the Society of Ohio Archivists. Paper Conservator Jamye Jamison attended the SOA annual conference in Columbus, Ohio in April to accept the award, which is "given to individuals or organizations that have by excellence in deeds, actions, or initiatives improved the state of archives in Ohio over the past year."
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Each year, the Council of Smaller Enterprises (COSE) recognizes the business skills of arts-based small nonprofit businesses with two to fifty employees. Businesses are judged on devotion to and success of the management and business side of their company. ICA was very pleased to learn that we had been nominated for this award, and was even more pleased to be named co-finalists with Cleveland's Ingenuity Festival.

As the winning organization, ICA will receive $1,000; a choice of an avenue of free business support; a free year of COSE Arts Network membership; an article in the COSE Update; and an original piece of commissioned artwork.
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At its annual conference in April, the Ohio Museums Association awarded ICA a 2010 Visual Communication Award in recognition of the recent redesign of our website. ICA Operations Manager Christopher Pelrine represented the ICA at the award ceremony at Walsh University in North Canton, Ohio.
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Nicole M. Hayes, Director of Education and External Relations
Intermuseum Conservation Association

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