MS223: Care of Metals
Instructor: David Harvey
Price: $475
Dates: July 2 to Aug 10, 2012
Description:
Outdoor sculpture, silver tea service, gold jewelry, axe head, wheel rim
- metals are found in most museum collections and may be stored or
displayed indoor or outdoors depending on the object. Learn how to
identify different types of metal and their alloys. Gain an
understanding of how and why metals deteriorate and methods for
preventing deterioration from occurring or continuing. The pros and cons
of different popular treatments will be covered along with
recommendations for the least damaging approach to treatment. Care of
Metals provides a simplified explanation of the chemistry and structure
of metals, explaining the importance of the galvanic series and
electrochemistry in care strategies. Starting with an overview of the
history and function of metals and how they are made, the course will
cover guidelines for handling, labeling, exhibiting and storing metals.
An overview of treatments, including cleaning, used on metals and how
appropriate they are for the long-term preservation of the metal object
will help students make care decisions when consulting with conservators.
Logistics:
Participants in Care of Metals work through sections on their own.
Materials and resources include online literature, slide lectures and
dialog between students and the instructor through online forums. The
course is limited to 20 participants.
Care of Metals runs six weeks. To reserve a spot in the course, please
pay at http://www.collectioncare.org/tas/tas.html If you have trouble
please contact Helen Alten at [log in to unmask]
The Instructor:
Dave Harvey is currently a consultant to the producers of a new National
Geographic Television Series, America's Lost Treasures, set in museums
across the USA. David is also a senior conservator with Rosa Lowinger
and Associates - specializing in Objects, Architecture, and Sculpture.
He has thirty years of diverse experience in conservation,
archaeological fieldwork, and American living history museum craftwork
and interpretation. David was the archaeological conservator for the
James River Institute for Archaeology, The Yorktown Archaeological
trust, and the Virginia Company Foundation doing fieldwork, artifact
cataloguing, scientific analysis, and the conservation and stabilization
of diverse historical and prehistoric archaeological artifacts. He was
the lab manager for the Metals & Arms conservation lab at Colonial
Williamsburg. He was also responsible for the design and equipment
specifications for the new Metals &Arms laboratory, X-radiography
facility, and Analytical Laboratory in the DeWitt Wallace Collections &
Conservation Building on the Bruton Heights School Education Center
Campus. David was appointed Head of the Objects Conservation Department
at The Rocky Mountain Conservation Center at the University of Denver,
was the proprietor of his own professional conservation and consulting
company Artifacts, and was the Senior Associate Conservator for Griswold
Conservation Associates. David is a Professional Associate of The
American Institute for Conservation (AIC) and has served as the local
arrangements chair for the annual AIC meeting, program chair, chair, and
emeritus chair of the Objects specialty group and editor of the New
Materials and Research Column for the AIC News. David has pursued
educational outreach during his career in diverse media such as
scientific/technical journals, popular magazines and journals,
television, and audio-visual lectures & workshops.
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Brad Bredehoft for Helen Alten
Northern States Conservation Center
www.collectioncare.org
www.museumclasses.org
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