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Although we have just turned the page to 2012, this year's education calendar continues to fill. ICA is currently scheduling educational lab tours, presentations, lectures, workshops and more, into next fall. Are you looking for a member program, or professional development opportunity? If you have a group interested in touring the ICA facility, or an event that could benefit from a presentation on conservation topics, contact Jennifer Souers Chevraux, ICA Education Outreach Officer, to get on our calendar today.
Reasonable program fees and travel costs apply.
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Athletics. Joseph Haber, 1940. 50" x 68" Catalin plastic on Masonite. One of a pair from the Bratenahl Village Hall.
The Objects Department is currently working on two WPA era murals brought to the ICA by a group of residents from the Village of Bratenahl. The murals are made of textured Catalin plastic sheeting, which was cut into geometric shapes and affixed to a pressed wood backing board with brass screws. Each relief utilizes four or five different colors of plastic. Unfortunately, in the 72 years since the murals' production the Catalin has undergone significant shrinkage, resulting in cracks and numerous losses. The Athletics relief pictured here has approximately 30 losses, while its sister work, Studies, has approximately 25 lost sections. Some of the lost pieces have been replaced with painted Masonite, but the replacements do not match the surrounding colored Catalin.
ICA objects conservator, Mark Erdmann, and his team will repair the mural losses by fabricating new textured plastic pieces, while they clean and stabilize the existing Catalin pieces. ICA looks forward to welcoming a group from the Village of Bratenahl on January 19th, when they visit the Objects lab to see the work in progress.
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Each year ICA selects an institution to receive a subsidized collection survey focusing on a select group of artifacts in need of conservation assessment. The goal of the award is to help the recipient institution identify preservation needs, while information gained through the assessment can help raise funds for addressing those needs.
Last month a panel of reviewers selected the Mennonite Historical Collection in Bluffton University's Musselman Library Archives and Special Collections. The Mennonite Historical Collection is comprised of books, periodicals, manuscripts, photographs, and other documents important to worldwide Mennonite, and Anabaptist scholarship. In particular, 30 vellum-bound volumes represent some of the rarest pieces in the Mennonite collection.
ICA paper conservator, Jayme Jamison, will travel to the Musselman Library in 2012 to perform the subsidized survey. Her assessment findings will be used to develop short- and long-term preservation and conservation treatment plans for this subset of the Mennonite Historical Collections.
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Feeling overburdened and understaffed for your next exhibition project? ICA has a highly skilled team of fine art and artifact handlers, who regularly help museums and galleries with exhibit logistics and crating.
Temporary fine art storage, custom crate construction, onsite gallery installation and deinstallation assistance, and other critical support services are all part of our work here at the ICA. Let us help you take the stress out of the logistics of your next gallery change, or artifact loan. Contact ICA Operations Manager, Chris Pelrine, for more information.
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ICA-Art Conservation is grateful to the Kelvin & Eleanor Smith Foundation for the $10,000 general operations grant they recently made to our organization. The Foundation, incorporated in 1955 by industrialist Albert Kelvin Smith, supports nonsectarian education, performing and visual arts, the free enterprise system, health care, conservation, and community funds in the Greater Cleveland area. Today, Ellen Stirn Mavec, granddaughter of the Smiths and president of the foundation, carries on the legacy and perpetuates the profound vision of her grandparents.
ICA would also like to thank everyone who contributed to the 2011 Annual Fund campaign. Without your support we could not continue to provide the high quality of conservation and preservation services upon which organizations and individuals throughout this region have come to depend.
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Photographs courtesy of John T. Seyfried and Jennifer Souers Chevraux, copyright ICA - Art Conservation, 2012.
 Jennifer Souers Chevraux, Education Outreach Officer
ICA-Art Conservation
p: 216-658-8700 f: 216-658-8709
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