Allison Morehead has received the news that she will be a Visiting Scholar at Massey College for 2015/2016 - better dust off those academic robes, Allison!
In March 2016 Allison will be a Visiting Researcher at the Brocher Foundation, Hermance, Switzerland, for "Munch & Medicine".
Norman Vorano will be the project lead on a new Inuit art exhibition at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre; below is an excerpt from the article published in the Queen's Gazette earlier this week. (Read the full article)
The Context and Meaning XV: Sensing Matter(s) schedule is now available.
Queen's M.A.C. students spend a week in Boston in the second week of April. Gianfranco Pocobene (M.A.C. '84), head of conservation at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, giving behind-the-scenes tour to the students. Photo and story from Queen's university Art Conservation Facebook page.
Professor Rosaleen Hill was in Iqaluit, Nunavut second week of February, 2016. She, along with her colleague Kelly Stewart, taught the fourth of four archives and digital preservation courses for the Inuit Broadcasting Corporation. Iqaluit in February is amazing – cold, fantastic northern lights, and warm people!
Artifacts Conservation students, Mikaela Marchuk and Gyllian Porteous, under the supervision of Amandina Anastassiades, Professor of Artifact Conservation, are assisting with the creation of a virtual museum of Mediterranean antiquities. This project is led by Dr. George Bevan and students Kristen Jones and Marissa Monette in the Department of Classical Studies.
Today the Artifacts Conservation students, Mikaela Marchuk and Gyllian Porteous, under the supervision of Amandina Anastassiades, Professor of Artifact Conservation, are assisting with the creation of a virtual museum of Mediterranean antiquities. This project is led by Dr. George Bevan and students Kristen Jones and Marissa Monette in the Department of Classical Studies.
Last week the Art Conservation Program hosted the two-day Canadian Conservation Institute 'Exhibition Lighting' Workshop. Thank you to CCI’s Eric Hagan and Jean Tétreault for presenting such an informative and fun workshop. Thank you also to the Agnes Etherington Art Centre for sponsoring this workshop. Read the story from Queen's university Art Conservation Facebook page.
Master of Art Conservation students assess the condition of a mural that was donated to Queen's after it was found during renovation work at the former bus terminal on Bath Road in Kingston. Read the full story.
Last week our first and second year M.A.C. students teamed up with the students from the Fleming College Collections Conservation and Management program to tour the Canadian Conservation Institute (CCI), and the Canadian Museum of History (CMH).
