Current Exhibition
Work
Spicer Art Conservation, LLC is
part several Native American exhibitions.
The Trial of Red Jacket, at the Buffalo & Erie County Historical
Society is slated to open late summer of 2010. The
exhibition will display their broad and diverse Native
American collection.
During treatment.
Plexiglas mounts and supports are also being made for each
of the pipe bags and headdresses. Mannequins were also made
for the jackets and coats.
Artifacts from the Thaw Collection of American Indian
Art have been selected to travel beginning
in spring 2010. The treatment of the artifacts require
stabilization, compensation for loss, and mount
development. More can be read in the curator's blog notes. The exhibition can
be seen at the Cleveland Art Museum till the end of May.
It then goes to the Minneapolis Institute of Art and the
Indianapolis Museum of Art.
A leather shirt from the collection.
Consolidating flaking paint.
Uncommon Threads: Wabanaki Textiles, Clothing and
Costume is slated to be open in May 2009 at the Maine
State Museum, to begin traveling in both the US and Canada
starting in 2010. Many of the textiles were treated by
Spicer Art Conservation, LLC. Mounting of the artifacts
were designed to lower the risks of handling, creating the
use of magnets to secure the artifacts to the removable
display decks.
Examples of the mounts for
the exhibition.