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Road Closures: Gilbert Ave. & Art Museum Drive

Please access the museum through Mt. Adams from Martin Drive the morning of Sunday, May 5. The museum will not be accessible from Gilbert Avenue and Art Museum Drive due to the Flying Pig Marathon. We expect roads to open by early afternoon.

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Behind the Scenes in Conservation: You’re Invited to a Potluck!

by Conservation

9/24/2021

CAMConservation , textile conservation , textiles , light sensitivity , fading

The Potluck is ready to serve! The conservation blog on June 3, 2021 featured this art quilt by Jane Burch Cochran which had a silk edge badly faded by light. Now treatment is complete with the dyed-to-match overlay stitched on top of the original, faded silk edge. Scroll back and forth to see how the color of the edge impacts your viewing of this object from the faded, greyish edge to the bright, original color the artist intended, brought back to life in the conservation “kitchen.”  

Jane Burch Cochran (American, 1943-), Potluck, 1993, cotton, silk, polyester, paint, plastic, beads, mother-of-pearl buttons, Anonymous gift, 2018.275