Current Exhibition
Work
Spicer Art Conservation, LLC is
part several Native American exhibitions. Each one are
briefly discussed below.
Trail of Red Jacket
Thaw Collection
Uncommon Threads
Trail of Red Jacket
The Trial of Red Jacket, at the Buffalo & Erie County Historical
Society is slated to open early fall of 2010. The
exhibition will display their broad and diverse Native
American collection.
During treatment.
Plexiglas mounts and supports were made for each of the
pipe bags and headdresses. Mannequins were also made for
the jackets and coats, as well as reproductions.
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Thaw Collection
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.
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Uncommon Treads
Uncommon Threads: Wabanaki Textiles, Clothing
and Costume open in May 2009 at the Main State Museum, and to begin
traveling in both the US and Canada starting in 2010.
Many of the textiles were treated by Spicer Art
Conservation, LLC over several years pf preparation.
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.
Image of the exhibition while on view at the Maine State
Museum, Augusta, ME.
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