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CAC
ACCR
BULLETIN
Canadian Association for Conservation of Cultural Property / Association canadienne pour la conservation et la restauration des biens culturels
MARCH 2012 MARS Vol. 37 No. 1 ISSN 1206-4653
http://www.cac-accr.ca
President’s Letter
Contents
Table des matières
I look forward to seeing you all at the conference in Peterborough, "The
Power of Preservation". There, I encourage you to attend the presentation
and round table discussion on a proposed CAC-CAPC Merger. We are
planning the talk for the first day of the conference (May 24th, 2012), and it
will feature a panel composed of the committee members working on the
project (Julia Landry, Marianne Webb and Andrew Todd). The committee's
presentation will focus on the ideas that initiated the project, and how the
two merged associations would function together, while maintaining their
separate mandates. This would be followed by an important period of open
exchange meant for your concerns, questions and ideas. We encourage
you to attend and want to hear your thoughts.
President’s Letter
Lettre de la présidente
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Editors’ Note
Note de la rédaction
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In Memoriam: Keith Eccles
À la douce mémoire de Keith Eccles
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38th Annual CAC Conference
38e Congrès Annuel de l'ACCR
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Call for Nominations
Mise en Candidature
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Advertise in our 2012 Directory!
Annoncez vos services dans
notre Annuaire 2012!
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Thank you for participating in our nationwide survey of members, which
had a response rate of over 70%. In an effort to improve this response rate
for future surveys, I invite those who did not participate to share their
reasons. Perhaps you suffered from a lack of time, or access to a computer, or perhaps it was the questions themselves that made you hesitate. I
Membership Renewal
Renouvellement d'adhésion
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Lettre de la présidente
Across the Country - Dans tout le pays
Western Region - Région de l’Ouest 9
Eastern Region - Région de l’Est 13
Conference Reports
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Conferences and Training Congrès et formation
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J'ai très hâte de vous voir au congrès annuel à Peterborough, dont le thème
sera " Le pouvoir de la préservation ". Je vous convie à la présentation et
au débat concernant l'éventuelle fusion avec l'ACRP. Cet événement aura
lieu le premier jour du congrès (24 mai 2012) et sera animé par un panel
constitué de membres du comité se penchant sur la question (Julia Landry,
Marianne Webb et Andrew Todd). La présentation du comité sera axée sur
les idées à l'origine du projet et sur la façon dont les organismes fusionnés
fonctionneraient tout en maintenant leurs mandats distincts. Ensuite viendra
une importante séance d'échange durant laquelle vous pourrez partager vos
inquiétudes, poser vos questions et soumettre vos idées. Nous vous
encourageons à y participer, car nous voulons avoir votre avis.
Merci d'avoir répondu en si grand nombre au sondage national de nos
membres; le taux de participation se situait à plus de 70 %. Pour nous
permettre d'augmenter ce taux de participation dans le futur, nous voudrions
inviter tous ceux qui n'ont pas participé à nous donner les raisons pour
lesquelles ils n'ont pas répondu. Peut-être n'avez-vous pas eu le temps,
n'avez-vous pas pu accéder à un ordinateur ou encore les questions ellesmêmes vous ont fait hésiter? Nous sommes curieux d'en savoir plus.
Bientôt, vous verrez apparaître sur notre site un lien pour rejoindre la
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would love to know. On the website, you should soon
see an email contact link for the president. We are
currently tabulating and analyzing the results.
A few enthusiastic dedicated souls have come forward to
help us on the new Website project, by being a sort of liaison
between the Board and the Webmaster, Shelagh Linklater,
listing and prioritizing issues to resolve. It is looking better
every day, but we continue to ask you for your patience as
there are still some details to resolve. We thank Shelagh for
her diligent work on this very large project. We also thank
Danielle Allard for her dedication and work producing our
Registration page, along with the many other things she
does. We, on the Board, are very grateful to her, as her
corporate memory is invaluable to us.
In an unorthodox fashion, I propose here-in, a simple idea
for the mentorship of young conservators conveyed to
me by a collegue from the Association of Canadian
Archivists. This entails the creation of a list of conservators early in their careers, seeking mentors, to be
matched with conservators willing to step forward as the
latter. Pairs would simply exchange phone or email, so
that the junior conservator has access to a an experienced professional ready and willing to answer questions
and offer their ideas.
Throughout one's career, but especially early on, one needs
the advice of those more experienced, but it is not always
easy to find, as everyone is so busy. This exchange could
hopefully initiate a free flow of communication, invaluable
to someone starting out. Perhaps in this way, the isolation
one can at times feel, whether as the only conservator in
an area, in an institution, or in your own business, can be
diminished, and our profession benefit enormously.
On a technical note, resulting from a review of our
expenses we are considering sending out our annual
report and financial statements electronically to reduce
costs. Those who prefer to receive them in print form
will be able to continue doing so.
We will be sad to see Kyla Ubbink, our Treasurer, step
down from the Board in May 2012. Kyla has worked
tirelessly and meticulously for the CAC for the last two
years as well as being an excellent Secretary before that.
Thankfully Kyla has offered to volunteer for the CAC in
future, on the large project she began with Danielle,
organizing our corporate archive. We encourage you all to
consider volunteering for the CAC. Please, speak to your
Regional Representative if you are interested. I wish you
all a wonderful summer and Conference!
présidente par courriel. Nous sommes en train de
compiler et d'analyser les résultats du sondage.
Quelques volontaires enthousiastes se sont proposés pour
nous aider avec notre projet de nouveau site Web, pour
servir en quelque sorte de lien entre le conseil et la
webmestre, Shelagh Linklater, en listant les problèmes à
régler et en les classant par ordre de priorité. Le site
progresse chaque jour, mais nous vous demandons d'être
patients, car il reste quelques détails à régler. Nous
voudrions remercier Shelagh pour son excellent travail
dans cet important projet. Nous désirons également
remercier Danielle Allard pour avoir conçu notre page
d'inscription en plus de s'être acquittée de nombreuses
autres tâches. Le conseil lui est vraiment reconnaissant,
car sa profonde connaissance de l'organisme nous est
d'une grande aide.
Je me permets de déroger aux habitudes en proposant
dans la présente lettre une idée simple concernant le
mentorat des jeunes conservateurs et conservatrices qui
m'a été soumise par un collègue de l'Association of
Canadian Archivists. Cela supposerait la création d'une
liste de conservateurs en début de carrière, à la recherche de mentors, que nous mettrions en contact avec des
conservateurs expérimentés prêts à les conseiller. Ainsi,
ils échangeraient adresses de courriel et numéros de
téléphone, afin que le conservateur débutant puisse
communiquer avec un professionnel expérimenté prêt à
répondre à ses questions et à partager ses idées.
Au cours d'une carrière, mais surtout au début de celleci, on a besoin des conseils de collègues plus
expérimentés, ce qui n'est pas toujours facile à obtenir,
car les gens sont très occupés. Cet échange pourrait,
espérons-le, initier un plus vaste dialogue, ce qui serait
d'une valeur inestimable pour les personnes amorçant
leur carrière. Peut-être que ce faisant, le sentiment
d'isolement que l'on peut parfois ressentir, que ce soit en
étant le seul conservateur dans un secteur ou une
institution ou dans sa propre entreprise, pourra être
diminué, ce qui profiterait grandement à notre profession.
Sur une note plus technique, à la suite de l'analyse de nos
dépenses, nous avons convenu qu'il vaudrait mieux
envoyer notre rapport annuel et nos états financiers par
voie électronique afin de réduire nos coûts. Les gens qui
préfèrent les recevoir en version imprimée pourront
continuer de les obtenir sous cette forme.
C'est avec tristesse que nous verrons Kyla Ubbink, notre
trésorière, quitter le conseil en mai 2012. Kyla a fait un
travail précieux et sans relâche à ce poste pour l'ACCR
Silvia Kindl
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au cours des deux dernières années en plus de s'acquitter
des tâches de secrétaire auparavant. Heureusement,
Kyla a proposé ses services bénévoles à l'ACCR,
principalement dans le grand projet qu'elle a amorcé avec
Danielle, c'est-à-dire l'organisation de nos archives. Nous
vous invitons à vous impliquer bénévolement auprès de
l'ACCR. Si cela vous intéresse, veuillez communiquer
avec votre représentant régional. Je vous souhaite un
superbe été et un très bon congrès!
Silvia Kindl
Editors’ Note
The editors of the CAC Bulletin are Charlotte Newton and Janet Wagner. The layout is done by Scott Williams.
The Bulletin is published by the Canadian Association for Conservation of Cultural Property, 207 Bank Street,
Suite 419, Ottawa, ON, Canada K2P 2N2, phone (613) 231-3977, fax (613) 231-4406, http://www.cac-accr.ca.
The deadline for the next Bulletin is August 1, 2012. Send submissions to [email protected], phone (613)
998-3721, fax (613) 998-4721.
Responsibility for statements made in the articles and letters printed in the Bulletin rests solely with the contributors. The views expressed by individual authors are not necessarily those of the Editors or of CAC.
Note de la rédaction
Les rédactrices du Bulletin de l’ACCR sont Charlotte Newton et Janet Wagner. Scott Williams assure la mise
en page. Le Bulletin est publié par l’Association canadienne pour la conservation et restauration des biens
culturels, 207, rue Bank, bureau 419, Ottawa, (ON) Canada K2P 2N2, téléphone (613) 231-3977, télécopieur
(613) 231-4406, http//:www.cac-accr.ca. Les textes soumis pour fins de publication dans le prochain Bulletin
doivent nous parvenir avant le 1 aout 2012. Veuillez envoyer vos articles à [email protected], téléphone
(613) 998-3721, télécopieur (613) 998-4721.
La responsabilité concernant les déclarations faites dans les articles et les lettres imprimés dans le Bulletin
revient exclusivement aux auteurs. Les opinions exprimées par les auteurs ne sont pas nécessairement celles de
la rédaction ou de l’ACCR.
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In Memoriam: Keith Eccles
À la douce mémoire de Keith Eccles
The conservation community was sad to learn
that Keith Eccles, founder and owner of BFB
Sales Limited and Archival Product.ca passed,
away this winter.
Keith had been a CAC member since 2006 and
a Supporting member since 2010. His successful
preservation supply business offered us wonderful service, from a proudly Canadian company at
reasonable rates. The family has conveyed that
they will not continue the business, as they feel,
(in his daughter Michelle's own words) "(...) he
was the business (...)." However, archival
supplies and conservation equipment formerly
available through Archival Products.ca will now
be offered through Ken Coyne's business Lines'n
Curves (please see Patricia Eccles' letter in this
Bulletin). The Eccles family thanks all of us for
supporting their business through the years.
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La communauté des restaurateurs et des
conservateurs est navrée d'apprendre que, Keith
Eccles, fondateur et propriétaire de "BFB Sales
Limited and Archival Products .ca" est décédé
cet hiver.
Keith était un membre de l'ACCR depuis 2006 et
un membre bienfaiteur depuis 2010. Sa prospère
entreprise de produits de conservation nous
offrait à des taux raisonables, un excellent
service à travers une compagnie entièrement
canadienne. La famille a convenu de ne pas
continuer l'exploitation de l'entreprise parce
qu'elle se sent comme si, ( ce sont les propres
mots de sa fille Michelle) "(.....) il était toute
l'entreprise(....)" Toutefois, les fournitures
d'archives et l'équipement de conservation qui
étaient disponibles à travers Archival Products
seront maintenant accessibles à travers la cie de
Ken Coyne, Lines'n Curves (voir la lettre de
Patricia Eccles dans ce Bulletin). La famille
Eccles nous remercie tous pour avoir encouragé
son entreprise à travers toutes ces années .
38th Annual CAC Conference
38e Congrès Annuel de l'ACCR
Preparations for the 38th Annual Conference and
Workshop in Peterborough, Ontario are well underway.
Peterborough is a unique community known for its
exceptional quality of life and beautiful setting on the
Trent-Severn Waterway in the Kawarthas tourism
region.
Les préparatifs pour le 38e Congrès et ateliers annuels à
Peterborough sont en bonne voie. Peterborough est une
communauté unique, connue pour sa qualité de vie
exceptionnelle dans un cadre magnifique sur la voie
navigable de Trent-Severn dans la région touristique de
Kawarthas.
The Holiday Inn Waterfront in downtown Peterborough
is the site of the "Preservation Unplugged" Workshop and
the "Power of Preservation" Conference Program (22-26
May). A half-day Birch Bark Basket Making Workshop
(23 May) will be held at the Curve Lake Cultural Centre,
Curve Lake First Nation.
Le congrès ‘Le pouvoir de la préservation’ et l’atelier ‘
La préservation dans sa plus simple expression’ auront
lieu du 22 au 26 mai au Holiday Inn Waterfront au
centre-ville de Peterborough. L’atelier d’une demijournée sur la Fabrication des paniers aura lieu le 23 mai
au centre culturel de Curve Lake, Curve Lake First
Nation.
Visit www.cac-accr.ca/conferences for the most up-todate information on registration, about Peterborough
(how to get here, where to stay, where to eat) and
preliminary program information.
We look forward to seeing you soon!
Vous trouverez au lien suivant http://www.cac-accr.ca/fr/
conferences , l’information la plus récente dont le
formulaire d’inscription, la trousse d’information (comment vous rendre à Peterborough, ainsi qu’une liste
d’hébergement et de restaurants) et le programme
préliminaire du congrès.
Co-Chairs: Cindy Colford and Gayle McIntyre
Au plaisir de vous voir bientôt!
Co-présidentes : Cindy Colford et Gayle McIntyre
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Call for Nominations
Mise en Candidature
Call for Nominations of Candidates for the 2012
Election to the Board of Directors of the Corporation of CAC
Appel à candidatures des membres du Conseil
d'administration de la Corporation de l'ACCR
pour les postes à combler en 2012
– WRITTEN SUBMISSION BY APRIL 15th.
- CANDIDATURES PAR ÉCRIT D'ICI LE 15 AVRIL.
The CAC-ACCR needs (and wants) you!
L'ACCR a besoin de vous !
This year the following positions expire and will be up for
nomination and election at the May AGM for a two year
Term: Treasurer; Secretary; Eastern Regional Councillor;
one Executive Councillor; and the position of CAC/CAPC
Liaison.
Cette année, les postes suivants expirent et feront l'objet
d'élection pour un mandat de deux ans, lors de
l'Assemblée générale annuelle au mois de mai: trésorier,
secrétaire, conseiller régional de l'est, un conseiller de
direction et le poste de liaison ACCR/ACRP.
In order to be nominated and qualify, you must be a
Member in good standing (e.g. fees paid and adhere to the
CAC-CAPC Code of Ethics and Guidelines for Practice),
be committed to the Objectives of the CAC-ACCR, be
available to participate in approx. 10-14 teleconferenced
board meetings and other discussions, be able to lead/
contribute to several assigned Committees or Ad Hoc
projects, and most importantly, be willing to work
collaboratively as a part of a dynamic team focused on
promoting its Membership and the Conservation of
Canadian cultural property and heritage.
Pour être admissible et désigné(e) candidat(e), vous
devez être membre en règle (vos frais doivent être payés
et vous devez respecter le Code de déontologie et Guide
du praticien de l'ACCR/ACRP), vous devez suivre les
objectifs de l'ACCR, être disponible pour participer à
environ 10-14 réunions du conseil d'administration et à
d'autres discussions par téléconférences, être en mesure
de diriger/contribuer à plusieurs comités assignés ou
projets ad hoc et surtout, être disposé(e) à travailler de
façon coopérative au sein d'une équipe dynamique, axée
sur la promotion de ses membres et la conservation du
patrimoine et des biens culturels canadiens.
For more information on these positions, and the By-Laws
with which their work is guided, please refer to: http://
www.cac-accr.ca/files/pdf/e-Bylaws.pdf . You can also
contact me, the Executive Councillor/Director responsible
for Nominations and Recruitment, or any other Standing
Member of the Executive Board.
Although Nominations can and would be accepted from
the floor at the AGM, we would greatly appreciate
receiving written Nominations and Candidate Statements
of Interest prior to the 15th of April in order to send out for
Membership consideration in the pre-conference package
mail out.
Submit nominations electronically to
[email protected] and
[email protected] .
We hope to hear from you!
Pour plus d'information sur ces postes et les règlements
qui les régissent, veuillez consulter : http://www.cacaccr.ca/files/pdf/f-Bylaws.pdf. Vous pouvez également
communiquer avec moi, Conseillère et Directrice
exécutive, responsable des candidatures et du
recrutement, ou avec tout autre membre permanent du
Conseil d'administration.
Bien que les mises en candidature soient acceptées à
l'Assemblée générale annuelle, nous apprécierions
grandement recevoir les candidatures écrites et les
déclarations d'intérêt des candidats avant le 30 avril afin
qu'on puisse les faire parvenir à nos membres pour
considération avant la réunion du mois de mai.
Veuillez soumettre les candidatures à
[email protected] et
[email protected]
Nous attendons de vos nouvelles!
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Membership Renewal
Renouvellement d'adhésion
May we remind you that your CAC membership fees
are due for renewal on January 1, 2012. Membership
fees for 2012 are:
Nous aimerions vous aviser que vos frais d'adhésion de
l'ACCR doivent être versés le 1er janvier 2012. Les
frais d'adhésion pour 2012 sont :
regular:
institutional:
student:
supporting:
$85
$170
$30
more than the applicable
category
Non-residents of Canada add $20 (USA) or $30
(outside Canada and the USA) for postage.
individuel :
institutionnel :
étudiant :
membre bienfaiteur :
85$
170$
30$
montant supérieur à la
cotisation pour sa catégorie
Pour les membres résidant à l'extérieur du Canada,
veuillez ajouter le montant suivant afin de couvrir les
frais de poste : États-Unis : $20 ; ailleurs : $30.
Late fee after February 28, 2012: $10
Frais supplémentaires après le 28 février 2012 : 10$
Advertise in our 2012 Directory!
Please consider advertising in this coming year's Directory. Ads and/or listings must be submitted by May 1st, 2012.
Ads in our Directory are very reasonably priced and will place your company's information in a convenient place to be
referred to by our members throughout the year. Our Directory is distributed to some 450 individual and institutional
members across Canada and around the world, including museums and libraries with multiple users. A hotlink to your
web site will also be posted in the CAC online Directory.
Don't miss this opportunity!
Forms are now available on our website http://www.cac-accr.ca/pdf/adenglish.pdf and contain all the information you
need. However, if you have any questions please email Kendrie Richardson at [email protected].
Annoncez vos services dans notre Annuaire 2012!
Nous vous encourageons fortement à publiciser vos services et entreprises dans notre Annuaire de 2012. La date
limite pour soumettre vos annonces et inscriptions est le 1er mai 2012.
Les coûts de nos annonces sont des plus compétitifs et celles-ci seront regroupées dans une section facile à consulter.
Notre Annuaire est distribué à quelque 450 membres individuels et institutionnels à travers le monde, incluant des
musées et bibliothèques comptant des usagers multiples. Un lien direct à votre entreprise sera également téléchargé
sur l'Annuaire en ligne de notre site Web.
Ne manquez pas cette occasion unique!
Vous trouverez le formulaire et tous les renseignements nécessaires sur notre site Web à l'adresse http://www.cacaccr.ca/pdf/adfrench.pdf . Toutefois, si vous désirez d'autres précisions, veuillez communiquer avec Kendrie
Richardson par courriel à [email protected].
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Western Region - Région de l’Ouest
Manitoba
Archives of Manitoba
In November, Preservation Services welcomed Mary
Hocaliuk as our newest conservator and we have kept
her busy getting familiar with our organization and
operations. As well, she is working on projects to rehouse rare books from fur trade post libraries and
expanding our resources for work with 8mm and 16mm
motion picture film.
Expansion work at our Government Records Centre is
near completion, with delays in starting up the mechanical systems for the new archival vault area. Renovation
planning is expected to re-start soon in preparation for
the replacement and relocation of five aged air conditioning units which serve the oldest vaults in our main
building. A leak from a humidifier in one of these AC
units highlighted the importance of auxiliary water
sensors, better drainage and containment of potential
leaks, as well as the importance of keeping this replacement project on schedule.
The Archives is in the process of formalizing procedures
related to digitization. Preservation Services has worked
with archivists in developing procedures for image
capture, and standards for assessment and preparation of
records for digitization. A pilot survey was completed to
identify major issues related to a proposal from a commercial vendor to digitize 13,000 pages of Hudson's Bay
Company records.
In addition to routine and ongoing preventive conservation work, housing and labelling for nitrate, acetate, and
colour film storage was reviewed and upgraded where
needed. Datalogger replacement options were researched and resulted in the purchase of new PEM
dataloggers.
and storing as many in muslin bags as possible. This will
allow for better control when costuming the approximately 100 staff and volunteers for the upcoming summer season.
The Manitoba Museum
Conservators Lisa May and Ellen Robinson have been
spending a lot of time on exhibit and gallery work. In
November, a quick turnaround was required in order to
display objects related to a hush-hush visit to the Museum by Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez, who were in
town for Gomez's concert performance. The two had a
private dinner on the Nonsuch, and signed a poster and tshirt, which we are raffling off to raise money to help
preserve the Nonsuch. Justin and Selena were both very
impressed by the Museum and particularly the Nonsuch.
The visit brought a flurry of publicity, and (at least
briefly) raised the profile of our efforts to maintain our
iconic ship. The exhibit case in the Museum foyer shows
off the signed items, Justin's guitar, Winnipeg Jets jerseys
the two wore while at a Jets game, and various photos
and other memorabilia of their whirlwind visit.
Other exhibit work included installation of a Natural
History exhibit in the Discovery Room - "Colour in
Nature"; condition reports, photos and installation of
Manitoba Museum artefacts at the downtown Library
display commemorating the 200th anniversary of the
arrival of the Selkirk Settlers (which led to the founding
of Winnipeg); preparations for our own exhibit on the
same theme; and regular cleaning and inventory checks
in our permanent galleries.
Alberta
University of Lethbridge Art Gallery
Lower Fort Garry National Historic Site, Parks
Canada
Miranda Grol is no longer working at the U of L art
gallery, she is now the Collections Manager at the Fort
Museum of the North West Mounted Police and First
Nations Interpretive centre in Fort McLeod
Collections Specialist Heather Beerling is conducting an
inventory of the entire interpretive costume collection at
Lower Fort Garry. Working in conjunction with several
volunteers, our Costume Curator, and Collections Manager, we are reconciling, applying labels to all garments,
The Art Gallery received a significant donation in 2010 of
194 artworks, which were subsequently exhibited, and a
catalogue, "Safe Home", was produced. Josephine Mills,
the director, wrote an essay for the catalogue, "Collecting
Home", that reflects on conservation issues for collec-
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tions such as: how a collection policy shapes a collection;
how things like condition, clear legal title, and quality of
the work affect the decision making process; and the
challenges that face custodians of collections in caring
for those collections. All issues dear to the heart of
conservators!
Coming up in the fall of 2012 will be an exhibition about
conservation and the conservation work being done at
the gallery, curated by myself and Miranda. We are still
working on a title. But it's going to be great!
Juliet Graham
University of Alberta
2011 marked the 60th anniversary of Rutherford Library
at the University of Alberta. The Rutherford Library
Reading Room, now dubbed the "Harry Potter" room, is
arguably the most coveted study space on campus, and
now home to a large acrylic on canvas painting by famed
Alberta First Nations artist Alex Janvier. An experienced
muralist, Janvier is renowned for his stellar "Morning
Star" (1993) in the Canadian Museum of Civilization.
Janvier's "Sky Talk" (2008) could not be installed on the
wall since the room is punctuated by large windows on
three sides; a free-standing installation of the painting
was therefore requested, directly opposite a historic
mural.
Cyndie Lack worked with the University's Museums and
Collections Services (MACS) to design and implement
support of the 7 x 16' painting on an aluminum honeycomb panel. A secure work room was provided near the
Reading Room to act as the temporary conservation
"lab." MACS staff moved the enormous aluminum panel
up the library staircase - calculated to be a tight but
feasible fit.... and so it was! The painting was then
treated and stretched onto the panel in the adjacent work
room. Treatment, stretching, framing, and installation had
to be completed in the few days between the final exams
and the start of Christmas break. Planning began early in
2011 to ensure the coordination of logistical details
involving several departments, two private contractors
and a U.S. supplier, all managed by the University's
Preventive Conservation Manager Carmen Li. MACS
expects to post photos and video clips of the Janvier
project on the U of A Museums website
(www.museums.ualberta.ca) in the near future, both to
celebrate the project's success and create awareness of
the substantial work and resources required to install a
large-scale artwork.
Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild
(CBBAG)
Lisa Isley and Lee Oldford Churchill are co-curating the
upcoming Art of the Book 2013 Exhibition for the
Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild (CBBAG)
and organizing with the Calgary CBBAG chapter an
associated conference. We encourage our CAC members to consider submitting an entry for the exhibition.
Categories are: Fine Binding (which includes historical
structures), Paper making, Paper Decorating, Calligraphy, Box Making, Fine Printing and Artists' Books. We
are very excited because for the first time the exhibit will
open outside of Toronto on July 13, 2013, at the Museum
of Contemporary Art in downtown Calgary. In celebration of CBBAG's 30th anniversary we will be hosting a
conference with an exposition room with the aim of
bringing together people interested in books. This includes book conservators, book sellers, librarians and
book collectors. We would like to provide a platform for
discussion and education for both participants and the
general public.
Our keynote speaker for the conference is Sün Evrard a
founding member of the Tomorrow's Past movement in
Europe (http://www.outofbinding.com/tp.htm). Sün
studied bookbinding, gold tooling and book design at
L'École de l'Union des Arts Décoratifs, Paris. She has
worked as a highly respected designer bookbinder since
1978. She is co-author with Annie Persuy of a bookbinding manual, La Reliure, published by Dencel. In the past
ten years her work has been orientated toward book
friendly design bindings for antiquarian books. She
believes that well conceived conservation bindings can
also be pleasant looking and expressive. Sün will be
discussing what Tomorrow's Past is about and the work
she has done for institutions such as the French National
Library.
Another of our presenters directly related to book
conservation will be Julia Miller. Julia is a bench-trained
conservator who in recent years has turned her focus to
the study and teaching of historical binding structure.
Julia has taught a variety of early structures around the
U.S. and beyond, and has had the opportunity to travel to
Cairo twice to study the bindings that originally sparked
her interest in early bindings, the fourth century singlequire bindings known as the Nag Hammadi codices. In
2008 Julia received a Kress Foundation/FAIC conservation publication fellowship to support the writing of a
book on historical structure and style titled Books Will
Speak Plain: A handbook for identifying and describing
historical bindings, published by The Legacy Press .
Cyndie Lack
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The full details of the exhibition and conference will be
online soon http://www.cbbag.ca/home.html
acrylic varnish layer which provided a surface from
which the thick soot could be removed.
Questions or comments? [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>
The lab currently has two volunteers - eager university
students hoping to enter a conservation program: Sarah
Bohuch and Michelle Sherer, both from Simon Fraser
University. The lab appreciates their assistance, and they
in turn are gaining some technical experience in a
conservation lab setting.
Lisa Isley
British Columbia
Fraser Spafford Ricci Art & Archival
Conservation Inc.
In late 2011, the lab finished a long-standing project to
inventory, clean, stabilize and prepare for storage a
collection of approximately 2800 architectural and
engineering plans of the historic Snoqualmie Falls Power
Plant for Puget Sound Energy in Washington State. FSR
will now be doing some conservation treatments for plans
that will be exhibited in a museum being established at
the Falls, and will advise on conservation-safe exhibit
conditions. Also at the end of December, FSR completed
a project to conserve 1100 drawings from the Ocean
Falls Pulp Mill held by the Royal BC Museum in Victoria.
The plans were cleaned of dust, dirt, surface mould and
accretions, deformations were removed and some of the
brittle plans were sleeved in Melinex 516 L-welds.
Emily Min and Christine Foster in the paintings area,
have been busy with a wide variety of treatments on both
historic and younger paintings. A beautiful Dutch still life
on a copper support was cleaned, consolidated and
inpainted. A very interesting early prairie painting that lab
conservators dubbed "Canadian Gothic" (a striking image
of a hunter in a Hudson Bay blanket coat holding a rifle,
standing with his wife and dog) received a lengthy and
complex treatment that involved recovering lost image
previously hidden beneath velvet edging ribbon. Fourteen
paintings recovered from a fire at the Canada Games
Centre in Whitehorse, YK were cleaned at the lab using
a progressive method of dirt and soot removal involving
direct vacuum (done on-site at the Centre during salvage), use of dry surface cleaning materials such as
Chemsponge and then solvent cleaning using primarily
surfactant in water solutions determined using the
Modular Cleaning system. The fire site was a large
arena that reached a very high temperature during the
fire, requiring rebuilding and extensive cleaning to
remove thick black soot on all surfaces. A painting
salvaged by Sarah Spafford-Ricci from this arena was an
acrylic on canvas work by Yukon painter Lillian Loponen.
The four panel canvas painting, measuring 22.5' x 9' ,
was successfully cleaned due to the artist's use of an
Sarah Spafford Ricci, Principal Conservator of Fine
Art
Fine Art Conservation
In the fall of 2011, Rebecca at Fine Art Conservation
treated an eclectic range of items including Inuit and
Northwest Coast prints, prints and original paintings by
BC artists Sybil Andrews, E.J. Hughes, Frederic BellSmith and Gordon Smith, several lithographs by Chagall
and etchings by Picasso, a sampler dated 1787, and two
African batiks. She is currently planting several varieties
of English cider apple trees, and immersing herself in the
chemistry of cleaning. The former is in anticipation of
using her brand new (self made!) apple mill and cider
press next fall. The later is in preparation for two backto-back workshops in March: Chris Stavoudis's Modular
Cleaning Program at Seattle Art Gallery and Richard
Wolbers' Cleaning of Painted Surfaces at the Vancouver
Art Gallery.
Rebecca Pavitt
Royal BC Museum
The conservators at the Royal BC Museum are busy
preparing for a very busy exhibition schedule in the
spring, summer, and fall of 2012. Preparation of collections for cold storage and digitization are also keeping the
staff hopping. We've missed our interns over the last
year, so if you're a student looking for an internship,
please give us a call and we'll tell you all about how
wonderful we are.
Kasey Lee, Conservation Services Manager
UBC Museum of Anthropology
Conservation staff at MOA have been spending recent
months responding to an increasingly busy exhibition
schedule by preparing works for transit and display.
Mauray Toutloff recently completed a stain removal
treatment on a Doug Cranmer painting slated for an
upcoming retrospective of his work. Heidi Swierenga has
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been working on a newly acquired ceramic by Hans
Coper, which was damaged while on route to the museum.
The Conservation and Collections Department has
recently joined the Curatorial Department and the Harry
and Audrey Hawthorn Library and Archives to become
the MOA Centre for Cultural Research. Newly appointed Associate Director of Research, Nuno Port, will
head this group to support and disseminate MOA's own
research and teaching initiatives as well as those of
external researchers working with MOA's collections.
Conservation's current research projects include fibre ID
of North West Coast textiles and C14 dating on a
collection of Buddhas. Mauray Toutloff has also recently
completed training for XRF certification - she and Heidi
will be doing analysis on trade silver, copper and pigments in the upcoming months.
This past October MOA Conservation hosted the Suction
Table workshop, taught by Rosaleen Hill and funded
through the CAC. Twelve conservators from BC,
Alberta and Yellowknife attended the event and it proved
to be a great learning opportunity with much sharing of
ideas and techniques.
Golya Mirderikvand has recently arrived at MOA for a
three month, post program internship focusing on preventive conservation. A recent graduate of the Queen's Art
Conservation program, where she specialized in paintings
conservation, Golya completed her last required summer
internship for her program at the Inter-museum Conservation Association (ICA) in Cleveland, Ohio. Upon
finishing with her summer internship, she stayed on at
ICA to help with the restoration of a large-scale indoor
mural at the West Virginia University. One of the main
projects that she is currently working on at MOA is the
rotation of just over 450 light sensitive textiles on exhibit
in the museum's visible storage gallery. Golya also
volunteers at the UBC Beaty Biodiversity Museum one
day a week, where she is mainly helping with the digitization of the Herbarium collection from British Columbia.
Carl Schlichting and his company In Support of Difficult
Art and Artifacts is in the lab working on a number of
mounting projects including the installation of a 35ft
Mungo Martin totem pole that will be erected in the
museum's Great Hall this February. Shabnam
Honarbakhsh has returned to MOA on a short-term
contract to assist with a variety of projects including
loans and mount making.
Heidi Sweirenga, Conservator
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Eastern Region - Région de l’Est
Newfoundland and Labrador
Carla Pike
After two years of private work back in her home town
of St. John's, Carla Pike has traveled 'down under' to
take up the position of Earthquake Recovery Project
Conservator at Canterbury Museum. This exciting
position involves working to restore display objects to
their former glory with the aim to have them back on
exhibit during 2012. Canterbury museum, Christchurch's
community museum and the third largest in New
Zealand, houses collections that comprise more than 2.1
million items encompassing Antarctic expeditions,
Canterbury settlement, ethnology and natural history.
Due to good mounting and support systems within exhibits,
a small proportion of objects were damaged. Carla will be
working on a variety of object types, including glass,
ceramic, wood and paper, as well as natural history
specimen's including bird skeletons and insects
The Rooms Provincial Archives
Last fall (thanks to the CMA sharing the costs with my
employer), I went to the CCI/LAC sponsored Symposium
on Adhesives, which was excellent. I have been able to
apply some of the techniques demonstrated there to make
repair strips and for lining fragile paper objects, as well as
apply some different techniques to tear repair of paintings.
At The Rooms Provincial Archives I have been working
on cleaning and stabilizing a number of interesting maps
and other documents, new acquisitions and responding to
archivists' requests for stabilization of fragile records on
demand for researchers. Reformatting of AV collections
is ongoing, mainly under supervision of the SMI (Still &
Moving images) Archivist. Demand from client services
may spur on a project to prepare for reformat (scan/
microfilm) ofour old court records, many of which suffer
from "powdery paper" syndrome. Experimentation with
strengthening and interleaving to make it possible to turn
pages, as well as advancements in the scanning equipment
may make it happen. Rose Smart and I have been developing Disaster Recovery kits for the Rooms, and are
working with the Rooms Risk Management Committee to
develop our overall Disaster Plan.
Bev Lambert
The Rooms Provincial Museum
The primary focus of conservation activities at the
Rooms Provincial Museum continues to be preparation
for the Elinor Gill Ratcliffe and Husky Energy Galleries,
scheduled to open in June 2013 in our 4th floor gallery
space. These integrated galleries (the Elinor Gill
Radcliffe Gallery is a mezzanine floor reached through
the Husky Energy Gallery) will bring the Newfoundland
and Labrador story from the early European enterprises
where our Discovery Gallery leaves off, to the present.
Our first experience with serious philanthropy has been
very positive, with nothing but respect and support from
the donors.
Based on extensive public and stakeholder consultation,
the expectation for these galleries is high, and many
themes/subjects must be addressed in what is always too
little space. As a result, the exhibit design is to be
flexible enough to permit cycling collections in and out,
both for conservation and content reasons. Thus many
artifacts must be selected with 'traders' in mind and
Conservation involvement is becoming more intense as
planning, and hence artifact lists and case design, is
becoming more concrete. Miki Lee continues to be
dedicated to condition reporting/conservation for the
exhibits at her station in the temporary exhibit space, and
has completed some lovely treatments. She is partnered
with curatorial staff who can answer questions and
record information from the visitors about artifacts and
themes presented on the floor. Most seem to find this
valuable.
Rose Smart, while also working on artifacts for the new
exhibitions, continues to be largely absorbed with the
preventive conservation program for The Rooms and its
three branch facilities (Grand Falls, Grand Bank, and
Northwest River Labrador) and artifacts in the Provincial
Historic Sites, and for other exhibit projects. A moth
infestation at the Labrador Interpretation Centre was
dealt with without any damage to collections, and holes in
the IPM (visitors dropping off untreated fur that 'might
come in handy') were addressed. The Disaster Planning
process is proceeding well, with a good representative
committee using the dPlan template, and supplies have
been ordered for the response stations. Given that The
Rooms comprises three collections holding divisions and,
three branches and five offsite buildings, it's a little
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complicated, and Donia Conn at the NEDCC has been
very helpful. Rose and the new Acting History Collections Manager, Cathy Rice, will be touring Provincial
Historic Sites in March to update Condition Surveys and
inventories. This year being the 100th anniversary of the
sinking of the Titanic, a commemorative exhibit is
planned, featuring a Titanic lifejacket and other small
memorabilia. This object was treated in the 1990s by
Jane Tomlinson, a Hampton Court textile conservation
alumna. Due to the frequent demand, and the considerable light dose it has already received in its extended
exhibit history, we are designing visitor activated lighting
to limit exposure to actual viewing time. Given the
drama associated with this event, the fade up/fade down
approach is expected to be effective as well as protective. Patterns have also been commissioned to permit
the production of accurate reproductions for use in
venues where security and conservation conditions are
not adequate but for whom this object is very significant
(e.g. Cape Race).
The Museum will be switching to a new collections
management database (KeEMU) this year, and in
preparation conservation and history records from the old
database are being cleaned up and standardized by Paula
French and Adriane VanSeggelen.
Finally, the Natural History Unit's preservation program
is maintaining momentum, managing to find funding to
keep on their Fleming College intern, Jenny Hadley, to
conserve the fluid-preserved zoological collection. The
objectives of this review are to identify and mitigate
preservation issues, and to ensure compliance to occupational health and safety regulations through the proper
implementation of the Workplace Hazardous Material
Information System.
Rose Smart
Québec
L'Atelier Pomerleau Chevalier
L'Atelier Pomerleau Chevalier fête sa première année
d'activité dans ses locaux définitifs à Montréal !
Constitué par Esther Pomerleau, technicienne en
muséologie spécialisée en conservation préventive, et
Séverine Chevalier, restauratrice d'œuvres et documents
sur papier, l'atelier propose une gamme complète de
services en conservation-restauration dans le domaine
des arts graphiques. Désormais installé dans le quartier
Rosemont, il bénéficie de la proximité de compagnies
travaillant dans des domaines connexes. Vous êtes invités
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à consulter le site Internet de l'atelier http://
www.pomerleauchevalier.com/
Ontario
Ottawa
Ubbink Book and Paper Conservation
Check out the new website for Ubbink Book and Paper
Conservation; www.bookandpaperconservation.com, and
you can even 'like us' on Facebook. Every few months
the site will feature a new project in the portfolio section,
with images showing each step of the treatment process
with a short description beneath. The site also has a
quick preservation guide for collectors, "12 Steps to
Savings Your Books and Paper Artefacts", an "Amazing
Facts" section focused on books and printing, and an
extensive portfolio area exhibiting a variety of before and
after treatment images. Many thanks to the fantastic
Ottawa based company Pixelera for working with me to
design a professional website, that I can edit and alter
myself.
Kyla Ubbink
Library and Archives Canada
Conservators have been working steadily on collection
material, including several items for loans and exhibitions.
The preparation of ~40 portrait miniatures for three upcoming exhibitions is almost complete.
Conservators at LAC experimented last July with
preparing parchment glue and parchment pulp, and then
trying different methods of infilling losses in parchment
documents. The results were visually appealing and
because we were working on sample material, we will be
able to closely monitor any changes such as shrinkage.
We followed up with an in-house workshop in December.
The shared project with CCI, an evaluation of antioxidants for the treatment of copper-containing inks and
pigments, continues.
Mary Piper Hough, Soo Kendall and Anne Maheux have
been working on a number of paintings, photographs and
works on paper for the upcoming Double Take: Portraits of Intriguing Canadians, a traveling exhibition
developed by the Portrait Program, which opens at the
Confederation Centre of the Arts, Charlottetown, PE,
from March 31-September 3, 2012. Work has also
begun on objects for the exhibition Faces of the War of
1812, opening in June 2012 at the Canadian War Museum.
In preparation for a potential loan, one of our Murray
maps, which consists of 44 sheets, was laid out on the
Main Floor of the Preservation Centre in Gatineau. By
actually seeing the size of the map, organizers of the
potential loan were able to come up with several possibilities for viewing the whole. We hope the loan goes
through because we are looking forward to the challenge!
Canadian Museum of Civilization
January 2012 was a great start to the New Year for the
Canadian Museum of Civilization (CMCC). Although
we were sorry to see Anne Macdonnell finish her
assignment with us and we wish her well, we were
happy to welcome back Amanda Gould from a year of
Maternity Leave. We were also very happy to announce
that as of January 23rd Rebecca Latourell has joined the
Conservation Team on a two year term in the new
position of Preventive Conservation Technician. We are
very pleased to have Rebecca join our colleagues in the
extended Collections Management and Planning Division
(CMPD), and have her very capable hands assume the
implementation of much of the Preventive Conservation
measures that CMPD routinely applies to collections
care, within the public and storage spaces at CMCC.
Photo © CMCC, S. Darby.
Conservator Julie Hughes performs collections maintenance of
the Totems in the Grand Hall.
pendent researcher, along with Dr. David Morrison,
CMCC Curator and Director, History and Archaeology,
worked with CMCC Conservator Caroline Marchand
and Museum of Nature Conservator Luci Cipera to
ensure the selection, presentation and then preservation
of a challenging selection of artifacts which includes
Algonquin College Applied Museum Studies Program
Students Caitlyn Picard and Sara Greenaway started
their 3rd year Internship placements on January 9th during
the annual "Week of Closure"; a time when all Museum
staff are busy with extensive maintenance and refurbishment projects. Several familiar faces engaged in artifact
cleaning in the Galleries were "twitted" on the CMCC
twitter site http://twitter.com/civilization.
Looking ahead, we soon will be busy with the takedown
and preparation for travel of the exhibition Expedition
Arctic: 1913-1918, a co-production with the Canadian
Museum of Nature. Curator Dr. David Gray, an indeCAC Bulletin de l’ACCR Vol. 37 No. 1 March 2012 mars
Photo © CMCC, S. Darby.
Conservator Amanda Gould performing collections maintenance during the annual Week of Closure.
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specimens of animals, plants and fossils as well as Inuit
clothing and scientific instruments. The Expedition was
one of the world's last great journeys of discovery before
the age of modern communication and airborne reconnaissance and rescue. It is an awe-inspiring story of
adversity and scientific revelation.
Next will be the installation and launch of Maya: Secrets
of their Ancient World, a co-production with the Royal
Ontario Museum in collaboration with the National
Institute of Anthropology and History (CONACULTAINAH), and includes nearly 250 Artifacts (May 17th to
28th October).
In closing, we would like to congratulate Christophe
Vischi on his new position as Assistant Photographs
Conservator with the National Gallery of Canada, and to
thank him for his excellent work over the last few years
on the CMCC collections while in private practice; most
notably the survey and treatment of a large collection of
glass plate negatives. Christophe also shared his
expertise in photographic processes identification through
a workshop presented last November to staff from the
Library, Archives and Documentation Services (LADS)
and Collections Management and Planning (CMP)
divisions of the CMCC (his presence graciously supported by the NGC). These staff members are now
better able to identify and care of the many historical
photographic processes represented in the CMCC's
collections.
Wanda McWilliams
Manager, Conservation and Preservation, CMCC
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Conference Reports
New Zealand Conservators of Material Culture
Conference
Niovember 2-4, 2011
This past November I was lucky enough to attend the
annual New Zealand Conservators of Material Culture
Conference, which was held in downtown Wellington at
the Carter Observatory. The conference theme was
‘Parallel Universes: Exploring the collaborative process
in conservation’. The conservation community here in
New Zealand is relatively small compared to Canada but
the conference attracted various international presenters.
Though there were many fascinating talks, some of the
highlights were keynote speaker Miriam Kaminitz from
the National Museum of the American Indian, “Play or
Preserve? The role of the luthier at the interface of
conservation, use and abuse” by Catherine Newhook,
and a series of talks in regards to the aftermath of the
Canterbury earthquakes by Lisa Austin and Emily Fryer.
The conference also included tours of the new storage
facilities at the New Zealand National Library as well as
a behind the scenes tour of the forensics lab at the
Wellington Police Station.
Overall, the conference was an amazing experience and
what was even more incredible was seeing and meeting
a number of Canadians who are working in various
conservation labs across the country including: Margaret
Morris, Mindy Bell, Marion Mertes, Jennifer Koerner
and Jaclyn Bacon.
Kendrie Richardson
CMA - YCW Intern
National Army Museum of New Zealand
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Conferences and Training - Congrès et formation
Synchrotron Radiation in Art and Archaeology
2012 (SR2A 2012)
New York, NY
June 5-8, 2012
For more information visit: <URL:http://
meetings.chess.cornell.edu/SR2A/index.html>
French Bronzes: History, Materials and
Techniques of Bronze Sculpture in France (16th 18th centuries)
The Meaning of Materials in Modern and
Contemporary Art
2012 AICCM Paintings Group and 20th Century in Paint
Symposium
Brisbane, Australia
December 10-11, 2012
www.20thcpaint.org/event-2012AICCM.jsp>
Paris, France
June 9-12, 2012
Public paintings by Edvard Munch and his
contemporaries: Change and conservation
challenges
For more information visit: <URL:http://frenchbronze.net/>
Oslo, Norway
June 28-30, 2013.
10th International Conference on Indoor Air
Quality in Heritage and Historic Environments
London, UK
June17-20, 2012
For more information visit: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/
iaq2012/
2nd International Conference on Chemistry for
Cultural Heritage
Istanbul, Turkey
July 9-12, 2012
www.chemch2012.org>
The Decorative: Conservation and the Applied
Arts
24th biennial IIC Congress
Vienna, Austria
September 10-14, 2012
For more information visit:
<URL:http://www.iiconservation.org/congress>
For more information visit: <URL:http://www.hf.uio.no/
iakh/english/research/projects/aula-project/munch2013>
Metal 2013
ICOM-CC Metals Working Group Interim Meeting
Edinburgh, Scotland
September 16-20, 2013
www.metal2013.org>
Recent Advances in Glass, Stained Glass, and
Ceramics Conservation
ICOM-CC Glass and Ceramics Working Group Interim
Meeting and Forum of the International Scientific
Committee for the Conservation of Stained Glass (Corpus Vitrearum-ICOMOS)
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
October 7-10, 2013
www.icomcorpus2013.nu>
Recent Advances in Characterizing AsianLacquer
(RADiCAL)
Los Angeles, CA
October 22-26, 2012
For more information visit: <URL:http://www.getty.edu/
conservation/our_projects/education/sci_series/
radical.html>
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