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Julie Hollenbach, an Art History PhD graduate from Queen's has curated a show at the Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery in Nova Scotia.

Come find out more about your community-to-be. Explore your learning spaces, talk to your professors, hear from current students and get a feel for how awesome Kingston is to live in. All 30+ of our Arts and Science departments will have professors and students to talk to. Most importantly Fall Preview will give you a feel of what it will be like to sit in our classrooms - participate in a tour, a living lecture or hands-on demonstration.

Presented by Queen's Art Conservation Program and the Margaret Light Visiting Scholar Program 

This presentation by Chris Stavroudis will introduce the various uses of silicone solvents for art conservation in both theory and practice and will review the formation and uses of emulsions, both conventional and microemulsions.

Silicone solvents, relatively new to conservation, possess many properties of great utility to conservators. They are relatively non-toxic, have little to no odor, and are sublimely nonpolar. They have uses as neat solvents; in solvent mixtures; as protective, water-repellant barriers; and as components in microemulsions and polymeric emulsion stabilized systems. Modified silicone solvents, liquids and gels will be discussed as ways to extend the utility of the silicone world.

Chris will also provide an introduction to The Modular Cleaning Program (MCP), a systematic approach he developed to assist cleaning artworks. The MCP consists of a series of concentrated stock solutions and a computer database which may be adapted for the creation of liquid, emulsified and gelled cleaning agents.

Chris Stavroudis is a private paintings conservator in Los Angeles. He developed the Modular Cleaning Program in 2002 as an off-shoot of the work of Richard Wolbers and the Gels Cleaning Project at the Getty Conservation Institute. The Modular Cleaning Program is both an approach to cleaning and a FileMaker Pro database. He has codified the scientific basis of aqueous cleaning and solvent theories into the logic of the computer database. The program models aqueous chemistry at a given pH, reflects an ad-hoc theory of solvent gel formulation, and makes calculations in Hansen solubility space as it guides the conservator in the preparation of test cleaning solutions.

Chris obtained undergraduate degrees in Chemistry and Art History from the University of Arizona and his Master’s degree from the University of Delaware/Winterthur program in 1983.

Are you interesting in learning about our Art Conservation program? Then please join us for a webinar which will include faculty and students. 

Dr. Morehead’s lecture is part of one-day symposium, “Munch and his World”, that brings together leading Munch scholars from around the world. Tickets available at the .

The Canadian Art Museum Directors Organization toured the Art Conservation Program. Professor Rosaleen Hill toured the CAMDO members through the Artifact, Paper and Painting conservation labs and highlighted the types of objects that are treated in each area. She also discussed and demonstrated how new materials, such as gellan gum, are used in the conservation treatment of paper objects.

In the twenty-first century, scholars, collectors, and artists all must grapple with ethical issues concerning who has the right to make and/or represent Native art. Yet the history of the making of First Nations art is riddled with misrepresentations and even forgeries, many of which have not been fully explored nor unmasked in the literature on these topics. This lecture, derived from a book-in-progress on the topic, will focus on Indigenous artistry of the Northwest Coast, and the “vexed identities” of some of its makers.

Janet Catherine Berlo is Professor of Art History and Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester, New York. She has authored numerous books, exhibition catalogue essays, and other publications on First Nations art, including the widely used textbook, Native North American Art (with Ruth B. Phillips, Oxford University Press, second edition, 2015).

Are you or anyone you know interested in becoming an art conservator?  Queen’s University is hosting a Fall Preview event, featuring a number of undergraduate programs and courses at the university. Students and faculty members of Master of Art Conservation will be there for you to answer questions on November 2nd. We will also be offering a tour of our conservation lab on the same day!! Visit us on November 2nd and meet with faculty and current students to learn more about this unique program! .