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Small but Mighty: Nano-Cellulose Applications in Photograph Conservation | by Cleveland Museum of Art | CMA Thinker

By Marissa Maynard

The Cleveland Museum of Art’s (CMA) superb photography collection encompasses the history of the medium and offers a tremendous range, from cased photographs to salted paper prints to colored digital prints. For most photographic processes, the image layer is composed of silver particles in an emulsion. Some of the trickiest conservation treatments for photographs are in-painting and creating fills for missing emulsion. It is difficult to match the color and gloss that vary from photo to photo, and even when highly nuanced, these variations are perceptible to the human eye. As part of my Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in the CMA’s conservation department, I am conducting research on the application of cast nanocellulose films in photograph conservation (fig. 1), which has the potential to expand treatment options for a wide variety of photographic materials in the CMA’s collection.

Figure 1. Maynard working on removing cast nanocellulose from
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Beyond the Wall Text: Contextualizing Carpeaux’s Why Born Enslaved! | by Cleveland Museum of Art | CMA Thinker | Sep, 2022

By Key Jo Lee, associate curator of American art

Some of the reasons why curators place certain objects in certain places in the galleries are very apparent. This is by design. Typically, the goal is for each artwork to tell some part of a larger story that illuminates a time period, an artistic style, a theme, a person, and at times a blend of them all. The challenge is that we must convey that information within the well-informed parameters set by the Cleveland Museum of Art’s department of interpretation, which sets the museum’s standards for length and accessible content and language, among other important endeavors. As a curator, it is my job to provide factual and interesting information that has the potential to engage every visitor. This is no short order! Were we to place every line of research on the walls of the gallery, there would be no room

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Artists’ Collections in the Archives: Digitizing Cleveland’s Artistic History | by Cleveland Museum of Art | CMA Thinker | Sep, 2022

By Sara Kunkemueller, Digitization Intern, Ingalls Library and Museum Archives

This summer time, I joined the Ingalls Library and Museum Archives as a digitization intern. My operate involved many assignments, from updating metadata to scanning textbooks for the Web Archive, but significantly of my time was committed to digitizing artists’ collections in the archives. The first elements I scanned ended up John Paul Miller’s sketchbooks.

Miller (1918–2013) was a renowned Cleveland jeweler. Acquiring graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA), he returned after Military service in Environment War II to be part of the school’s personnel as a professor. At the exact time, he began producing parts for local jewellery keep Potter & Mellen. Although Miller was qualified in industrial design and style and spent his profession targeted on jewelry, he also harbored a deep like for watercolor and produced equally photographs of his travels and a selection

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Component Parts of Collections Management: Who’s Who? | by Cleveland Museum of Art | CMA Thinker | Oct, 2022

By Sydney Slacas, Assistant Registrar

When you visit the Cleveland Museum of Art, have you at any time assumed about who cares for the incredible assortment? With the assortment spanning practically 6,000 decades of inventive accomplishment, the CMA’s Collections Management team functions challenging each individual working day to set up exhibitions, coordinate art shipments, entire gallery rotations, photograph and doc the collection, and considerably more! But what precisely is collections management?

The collections management division is designed up of numerous scaled-down groups, all specializing in unique aspects of collections treatment. Generally, the division is composed of a collections supervisor, registrars, art handlers, photographers, and a packing professional. Together they are accountable for all factors of artwork movement and oversight — from shifting 1 painting out of storage to delivery an whole exhibition throughout the globe!

Registrars

There are numerous registrars operating in the department, just about every focusing on a

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