This week we are pleased to introduce two new contributing writers: Amber Kerr and Rebecca Rushfield. Amber Kerr is paintings conservator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Lunder Conservation Center. She has served as an elected member to the IIC Council for over seven years, is editor for the IIC social media pages, and is actively… Read more »
This week’s contributing blogger, Marta Garcia Celma, is a conservator of photographic materials and a PhD candidate with The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network NACCA (New Approaches in the Conservation of Contemporary Art) funded by the European Union H2020 Programme. She is based at Cologne Institute of Conservation Sciences, Germany, researching authenticity and reproducibility on… Read more »
Crystal Sanchez is a media archivist/preservationist at the Smithsonian Institution on the Digital Asset Management team (DAMS), working with digital audiovisual collections. As a member of the Smithsonian’s Time-Based Media Art Working Group, she is currently working on a project to interview thought leaders who work to plan for the technological needs of media artworks. … Read more »
Throughout the process of organizing our Artist Interview Workshops, we are increasingly encouraged and amazed by the artist interview projects being undertaken already. These projects are succeeding in their goals to gain a better understanding of materials, techniques and intent of the artist. Over the coming months, we will be highlighting some of our colleague’s… Read more »