Weeknotes: 03/31/24-04/06/24

This Week:

• In Collections Management, I taught the students about care and conservation for paintings, prints, drawings, and photographs, and also talked about the complicated history of “ethnographic objects”.
• I gave a tour of the Museum to Art History students and talked about the history of our Renaissance painting collection.
• The Museum held a collections committee meeting, in which we talked about de-accessioning an object for repatriation, and potentially accessioning a collection of materials from a local illustrator and artist.
• I did some more work moving our repatriation grant towards the finish line.
• It was Oneonta schools Spring Break, so I spent a bunch of the week with a kid in tow at the Museum. He’s still happy to tag along and I’m happy to have him.
• We had a quiet but fun Easter, with egg hunts, decorating, and a very tasty roast courtesy of Alanna.