Past Events
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Department of History of Art & Visual Culture
University of California, Santa Cruz
Monday, April 25th at 12:00pm PT
Sponsors: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology and UCLA Latin American Institute
Contact Alba Menéndez Pereda and Elyse Brusher
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Marianne Webb
Webb Conservation Services
Asian lacquer is one of those materials that most furniture and object conservators encounter occasionally
during their career. Unfortunately, conservation efforts can go dramatically wrong when a sensitive lacquer surface is treated inappropriately. A lustrous black surface can instantaneously turn to a milky brown color. During the active history of an Asian lacquer object this can occur when serving warm sushi or a hot cup of tea. For conservators it can occur during cleaning or consolidation.
Fortunately, our understanding of Asian lacquer surfaces has dramatically improved over the last few years. The Getty Conservation Institute is leading the research that demonstrates Asian lacquer is a complex mixture of one or more anacard lacquers with additives such as oil, pigments and resins. Now that we are learning more about the complex nature of the surface, we are beginning to understand how the ingredients affect the behavior.
Marianne Webb is an independent conservator and researcher on the west coast of Canada. For 29 years she was the Decorative Arts Conservator at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto where she developed her keen interest inAsian and western lacquer. Currently she is collaborating with the Getty Conservation Institute on their research into the characterization of Asian lacquer and developing cleaning techniques for these complicated surfaces.
Marianne earned an honor’s degree in Fine Art from the University of Toronto and a diploma in Art Conservation Techniques from Sir Sanford Fleming College. A founding member of the ICOM-Committee for Conservation -Working Group on Lacquer, she served as its coordinator for 12 years. She received the Samuel H. Kress Publication Fellowship in 1997 from the American Institute for Conservation. The resulting manuscript was published in 2000 as Lacquer: Technology and Conservation.In 2020 she received the Charles Mervin Ruggles Award from the Canadian Association for Conservation of Cultural Property.
Contact Céline Wachsmuth
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Over Zoom
Invited four speakers from different fields and jobs within archaeology (Meera Munoz-Pandya, a Bilingual Museum Educator at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History; Jorge Peralta, a GIS Archaeologist and Staff Archaeologist at PAX environmental; Christian de Brer, the Director of Conservation at UCLA Fowler Museum; Sarah McCully, the Director of Education and Grants at Landmark West) to speak about their educational and career paths, experiences, and advice; followed by Q&A.
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Jonathan Mark Kenoyer
George F. Dales Jr. and Barbara A. Dales Professor of Anthropology
Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Date & time: April 9th, 2022 at 1:00PM PT
A general overview of the Indus Civilization will be presented along with discussions of how archaeologists find sites, how they excavate them and how they study the artifacts that are discovered from the sites. Special focus will be on some of the traditional as well as innovative new techniques that archaeologists use to discover sites. It will also cover some important analytical approaches that are used to study different types of artifacts to gain unique information about the technologies and social organization of the ancient Indus communities.
Jonathan Mark Kenoyer, is the George F. Dales Jr. and Barbara A. Dales Professor of Anthropology, at the Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of numerous books and edited volumes on the archaeology of South Asia and the Indus civilization. He has excavated key ancient cities and elucidated contemporary urban patterns in Pakistan and India. He is a leading figure in South Asian archaeology, history, and ancient civilizations.
Contact Michelle Jacobson
Email mjacobson@ioa.ucla.edu
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Rodrigo Correa-Salas
Conservator
The structure, materials and acoustic properties of musical instruments are diverse and delicate. These
characteristics will determine whether the instrument can be played (on special occasions) or just be displayed in the gallery.
The basic knowledge of the different materials (and their combinations) with which they were built, how they were made, how they were played and on what occasions they were played offers us a good basis and help to evaluate each instrument and know how to proceed to maintain, stabilize, adjust, restore, or fix these sound machines.
Born in Santiago, Chile, Rodrigo Correa Salas comes from a family of artists.Prior to MIM, Correa worked as a luthier and instrument conservator for nearly two decades in the United States, Caribbean,Panama, and Chile. He was the official luthier of the annual Casals Festival in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and custodian of Maestro Casals’s violoncello in the Pablo Casals Museum.
Correa graduated from Puerto Rico’s Conservatory of Music, with a bachelor’s degree in music education and a minor in violoncello. He later obtained an associate of science degree in string instrument technology from Indiana University, while doing parallel studies in cello. He has played in various baroque, classical, and popular music groups in the United States and the Caribbean.
Correa’s role as conservator is to examine, document, restore,repair, and maintain musical instruments and other objects in MIM’s collection, while coordinating closely with the curatorial teamand collaborates in installing gallery exhibitions.
Contact Céline Wachsmuth
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Join the UCLA Art History Department for the annual Patricia McCarron McGinn Lecture featuring Professor Glenn Wharton with his lecture Why Conserve Cultural Heritage? Reframing a Discipline.
This year’s lecture will take place virtually on Monday, March 7 from 4 to 5:30 pm. Please RSVP in advance to receive a Zoom link.
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About Dr. Wharton
Glenn Wharton is Professor of Art History and Professor of the Conservation of Material Culture, as well as Chair of the UCLA/Getty Interdepartmental Program in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage. Professor Wharton most recently taught at New York University as Clinical Professor in Museum Studies; in addition to his academic positions, Wharton is an experienced art conservator with an extensive background in archaeological, sculpture, and time-based media conservation, who has worked and consulted at such museums as the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Wharton received his Ph.D. in Conservation and Archaeology from the Institute of Archaeology, University College London in 2005. He has received, amongst others, a Digital Pedagogy Grant from New York University (2018), a Getty Conservation Institute Guest Scholar Fellowship (2017), a College Art Association (CAA) / Heritage Preservation Award for Distinction in Scholarship and Conservation (2015), and the Historic Hawai’i Foundation Preservation Media Award for The Painted King: Art, Activism, & Authenticity in Hawai’i (2012). His research areas of interest include archaeological conservation, illicit trade, cultural heritage management, contemporary art conservation with specialization in time-based media, and addressing social justice, inclusion, and climate change in conservation.
The annual Patricia McCarron McGinn Lectureship was inaugurated in 1992 to showcase the scholarship of a faculty member in the Department. It was established in honor of Patricia McCarron McGinn (1927 – 1991), who was an outstanding student in the UCLA Department of Art History. Her enthusiasm, depth of commitment, and dedication to the challenges of graduate study as a returning student enlivened and expanded the scholarly perspective of the program. To honor her memory, her family, with the generous support of many friends, established the Patricia McCarron McGinn Fund to aid students engaged in the study of art history at UCLA and to sponsor the McGinn Lectureship.
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Richard Lesure
Professor, UCLA Department of Anthropology
Inaugural Lecture in the new Author Spotlight series
Paso de la Amada, on the coast of Chiapas, Mexico, was among the earliest settled villages in Mesoamerica. Excavations at the site have revealed extraordinary earthen constructions, including the earliest known Mesoamerican ballcourt. Professor Lesure will reflect on the 30 years of work that lie behind the book Paso de la Amada: An Early Mesoamerican Ceremonial Center, recently published by the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press. Work by Lesure and numerous collaborators (including UCLA colleagues and students) has led to surprising insights into the emergence of social inequality and the relation between agriculture and settled village life in early Mesoamerica.
Contact Michelle Jacobson
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Jorge Coronado
Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Northwestern University
Sponsors: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology and UCLA Latin American Institute
Contact Alba Menéndez Pereda and Elyse Brusher
Email albamenendez@ucla.edu and ebrusher@ucla.edu
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Malin Sahlstedt
Conservator, Vasa Museum, Swedish National Maritime and Transport Museums
Since the raising of 17th-century warship Vasa in 1961 after333 years on the seabed of Stockholm harbour,
two generations of preservation staff have had the task to safeguard this mighty piece of maritime cultural heritage for the future, a task perhaps as monumental as the ship itself. Contrary to what was thought when the Vasa Museum opened in 1990, namely that the conservation project was finalised and there would be little further need for lab facilities and specialised staff, the gradual development of acidic precipitates on the surface of the ship over the coming decade signalled on-going degradation processes,which called for action and wide expertise. Through a number of interdisciplinary research projects, new knowledge has been built and implemented in museum practice. I will present some of the experiences made and lessons learned over the years, where the securing and maintaining of broad preservation competence have become increasingly important and likewise challening.
Malin Sahlstedt studied Conservation of Cultural Property at Gothenburg University and has aMSc in Archaeological Science from Stockholm University (2000). After working in archaeological conservation with the focus on the treatment of waterlogged wood and a research projecton alum-treated archaeological wood at the Swedish National Heritage Board (2002-2009),she is currently conservator at the Vasa Museum in Stockholm, Sweden (2009-present). Here, in the continuous effort to improve the long-term preservation conditions for 17th-centurywarship Vasa and associated wooden artefacts, her work is concentrated on testing methods and implementing research results in the museum context. She also worked as a conservator in the research project Saving Oseberg at the Cultural History Museum in Oslo, Norway (2017-2018), investigating the preservation status of and re-treatment options for the alum-treated wooden objects of the Viking Ship Museum collection.
Contact Céline Wachsmuth
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