August 2015 Ancient Andean Lecture
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Mike R
Jul 30, 2015, 12:34:39 AM7/30/15
to Andean and Amazonian Archaeology Discussion Group
August 7, 6:45 PM
Pre-Columbian Society of Washington DC August Lecture
"Preparing and Installing the Great Inka Road Exhibit: A Conservator’s Perspective by Emily Kaplan”
This presentation provides a glimpse behind the scenes of the exhibit “The Great Inka Road: Engineering an Empire” from the conservation perspective. Emily Kaplan will give an overview of the exhibit process focusing on the work of exhibit team members including conservation, collections management, and exhibit production. The NMAI conservation team spent a year researching and conserving the collections selected by curator Ramiro Matos for exhibition. The team consulted with experts in Andean metallurgy, pottery, textiles, spondylus, and ethnography; carried out scientific analyses; and spent many hours doing conservation treatments. Kaplan will highlight some of the team’s favorite objects, treatments, and challenges. The exhibit opened June 26 at the NMAI Mall Museum, for a 3-year run.
Emily Kaplan has been an objects conservator at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian since 1996. She works on exhibit preparation at the museum’s New York and Washington, DC, facilities and specializes in collaborative technical studies of pre-Columbian and colonial Andean objects, particularly drinking vessels known as qeros. Recent publications on qeros include a sidebar in the Inka Road publication; a co-authored chapter. “Tradition and Innovation, Cochineal and Andean Keros,“ in the book “A Red Like No Other: How Cochineal Colored the World;” and a co-authored article in the Journal of the American Institute for Conservation, “Mopa mopa: scientific analysis and history of an unusual South American resin used by the Inka and artisans in Pasto, Colombia.” Kaplan is currently co-editing a book on qeros; contributions include perspectives from colleagues in archaeology, art history, ethnohistory, botany, chemistry, and conservation.
Sumner School
17th & M Streets, N.W.
Washington DC
http://www.pcswdc.org/events/
Pre-Columbian Society of Washington DC August Lecture
"Preparing and Installing the Great Inka Road Exhibit: A Conservator’s Perspective by Emily Kaplan”
This presentation provides a glimpse behind the scenes of the exhibit “The Great Inka Road: Engineering an Empire” from the conservation perspective. Emily Kaplan will give an overview of the exhibit process focusing on the work of exhibit team members including conservation, collections management, and exhibit production. The NMAI conservation team spent a year researching and conserving the collections selected by curator Ramiro Matos for exhibition. The team consulted with experts in Andean metallurgy, pottery, textiles, spondylus, and ethnography; carried out scientific analyses; and spent many hours doing conservation treatments. Kaplan will highlight some of the team’s favorite objects, treatments, and challenges. The exhibit opened June 26 at the NMAI Mall Museum, for a 3-year run.
Emily Kaplan has been an objects conservator at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian since 1996. She works on exhibit preparation at the museum’s New York and Washington, DC, facilities and specializes in collaborative technical studies of pre-Columbian and colonial Andean objects, particularly drinking vessels known as qeros. Recent publications on qeros include a sidebar in the Inka Road publication; a co-authored chapter. “Tradition and Innovation, Cochineal and Andean Keros,“ in the book “A Red Like No Other: How Cochineal Colored the World;” and a co-authored article in the Journal of the American Institute for Conservation, “Mopa mopa: scientific analysis and history of an unusual South American resin used by the Inka and artisans in Pasto, Colombia.” Kaplan is currently co-editing a book on qeros; contributions include perspectives from colleagues in archaeology, art history, ethnohistory, botany, chemistry, and conservation.
Sumner School
17th & M Streets, N.W.
Washington DC
http://www.pcswdc.org/events/
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