The Mississippi Collegiate Art Competition is a student art exhibition for all four-year college and university students within the state. This exhibit of student work—created in all mediums and completed within the last 12 months—is juried by Dan Brawner, Chair, Graphic Design, Watkins College of Art, Design, & Film (Nashville, TN).
followed by light refreshments
Conservator, Amy Abbe, will discuss her process in a slide show presentation and will show examples of works she has restored. Amy trained and worked as a sculpture and objects conservator for more than 15 years in museums and institutions in the Northeast, and is now living in Athens, Georgia, and serving the Southeast region.
She has extensive experience conserving sculpture and objects in materials as varied as stone, metal, wood, ceramics, basketry, polymers, and painted surfaces.
She worked previously as an Associate Objects Conservator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She’s also worked for other major NYC institutions, including the Guggenheim Museum and the American Museum of Natural History, and for a prominent private conservation studio. She completed advanced internships at the Walters Art Museum and Harvard Art Museums and has also been a site conservator on multiple excavations in Turkey.
She trained in conservation and studied art history at the Conservation Center of the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, after studying classical archaeology and chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Amy Jones Abbe maintains memberships in several conservation professional organizations and adheres to the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC) Code of Ethics and Guidelines for Practice in her work.
Conservator Amy Abbe is returning to the UM Museum on April 15 for a week of conservation and restoration of the David M. Robinson Memorial Collection of Greek and Roman Art.
Restoration will occur in the recently renovated, original Mary Buie Museum building and will specifically be on ancient marble heads from the Museum’s collection.
Abbe will host a short talk at the UM Museum on Thursday, April 18 at 5:30 p.m. to discuss her work, as well as reveal her process on two Ancient Greek vases from the same collection.
Those interested in conservation and restoration is invited to the following public viewing and Q&A sessions:
Monday, April 15, 2:30-2:50 p.m.
Tuesday, April 16, 11:30-11:50 a.m.
Wednesday, April 17, 2:30-2:50 p.m.
Thursday, April 18,11:30-11:50 a.m.
Any university professors or groups interested in scheduling a class viewing are encouraged to contact Melanie Munns Antonelli at mjmunns@olemiss.edu.
Mountain For Buddha – Wine, photograph by Kirby Zicafoose
UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM
Mary Zicafoose is largely a self taught weaver; she received her B.F.A. from St. Mary’s College, Notre Dame, Indiana. Her graduate studies include the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Nebraska. She credits her courage at the dye pot to the influence of painter Mark Rothko and her designs to every textile she has seen and touched. Ms. Zicafoose’s work is exhibited in over twenty U.S. Embassies worldwide, as part of the State Department’s fiber arts collections.
She will discuss her career and current exhibition, Fault Lines.
The artist will also present a loom-based demonstration,The Art of Ikat, at the Oxford Fiber Arts Festival
January 26, 2018
9:00 a.m.
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413 S. 14th Street
Commencing in the month of January, 2018 the Museum is making an entrance adjustment that will improve both our security and the visual quality of visitor arrival experience: the Side Door off the parking lot will become Museum Staff Only and all Visitors will be asked to use the main Front entrance.
This change is associated with the exciting introduction of our new Admission Desk, which has been custom-fabricated by artisan furniture makers Limber Timber, working with Museum staff members Melanie Munns and Taylor Kite.
We have been addressing several matters of arrival experience and Facility upgrades which include the Admission Desk now being sited along the South wall of the Lobby—(on the right upon entry). The former admission desk placement directly in front of the Permanent Collection galleries has been eliminated.
In the process of these adjustments, it becomes necessary to close the Side Door in part due to our Security Staff and Student workers no longer having a direct sightline down the long hallway to that side entrance. In no small degree due to the very high number of young children who are in the Museum so many days, we have a distinct obligation to assure that all visitors to the Museum are directly observed upon entry.
Of course, several benefits follow from this change, not least of which is the elimination of the ‘first-impression’ challenge we have had for so many years: such a high percentage of Visitors having entered through the Side Door being required to traverse a concrete-block hallway toward a generic office-supply metal desk as their initial experience of the Museum.
While we are certain that the main Front Entrance becoming the sole public entry will result in a much higher-quality arrival experience, and convey a much stronger initial impression of the Museum, we recognize that patterns of access via the door nearest the Parking Lot have many years of existence, and even habit for our frequent guests.
As a result, we ask for everyone’s patience with this change—with the extra 50 steps required perhaps constituting a fitness benefit, as they correspondingly result in a first-impression improvement of very high magnitude.
Many thanks, everyone.
Robert Saarnio, Director
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