MS 243: Making Museum Quality Mannequins
Instructor: Helen Alten
Price: $495
Dates: Sep 4 through Oct 12, 2012
Location: Online at www.museumclasses.org
Description:
A good mannequin makes an exhibit look professional. Unfortunately, most
museum staff do not know how to make a costume look good on a mannequin.
The result is that costumes look flat, provide incorrect information or
are being damaged. Buying an expensive "museum quality mannequin" is not
the solution - garments rarely fit without alterations to the mannequin.
Learn how to measure garments and transfer that information to construct
a new form or alter an old form so that it accurately fits the garment,
creating an accurate and safe display. Learn about the materials that
will and won't damage the textile. Making Museum Quality Mannequins
provides an overview of all of the materials used to construct
mannequins in today's museums. Learn inexpensive mannequin solutions and
how different materials may use the same additive or subtractive
construction technique. Fabrication methods for many mannequin styles
are described. Finishing touches - casting and molding, hair, arms,
legs, stands and base, undergarments - are discussed with examples of
how they change the presentation of a garment.
Logistics:
Participants in Museum Quality Mannequins work through sections on their
own. Materials and resources include online literature, slide lectures
and dialog between students and the instructor through online forums.
Museum Quality Mannequins 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:
Helen Alten, is the Director of Northern States Conservation Center and
its chief Objects Conservator. For nearly 30 years she has been involved
in objects conservation, starting as a pre-program intern at the
Oriental Institute in Chicago and the University Museum of the
University of Pennsylvania. She completed a degree in Archaeological
Conservation and Materials Science from the Institute of Archaeology at
the University of London in England. She has built and run conservation
laboratories in Bulgaria, Montana, Greece, Alaska and Minnesota. She has
a broad understanding of three-dimensional materials and their
deterioration, wrote and edited the quarterly Collections Caretaker,
maintains the popular www.collectioncare.org web site, lectures
throughout the United States on collection care topics, was instrumental
in developing a state-wide protocol for disaster response in small
Minnesota museums, has written, received and reviewed grants for NEH and
IMLS, worked with local foundations funding one of her pilot programs,
and is always in search of the perfect museum mannequin. She has
published chapters on conservation and deterioration of archeological
glass with the Materials Research Society and the York Archaeological
Trust, four chapters on different mannequin construction techniques in
Museum Mannequins: A Guide for Creating the Perfect Fit (2002),
preservation planning, policies, forms and procedures needed for a small
museum in The Minnesota Alliance of Local History Museums' Collection
Initiative Manual, and is co-editor of the penultimate book on numbering
museum collections (still in process) by the Gilcrease Museum in
Oklahoma. Helen Alten has been a Field Education Director, Conservator,
and staff trainer. She began working with people from small, rural, and
tribal museums while as the state conservator for Montana and Alaska.
Helen currently conducts conservation treatments and operates a
conservation center in Charleston, WV and St. Paul, MN.
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Brad Bredehoft
Sales and Technology Manager
Northern States Conservation Center
www.collectioncare.org
www.museumclasses.org
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