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AMIEN is a resource for artists dedicated to providing the most comprehensive, up-to-date, accurate, and unbiased factual information about artists’ materials.

Upcoming Event

On November 8, Gottsegen will give a talk on Jackson Pollock and the found Matter paintings allegedly by Pollock, at the Dayton Art Institute in Dayton, OH.

Special Announcement

This is posted on behalf of Brett Rodgers in the office of the American Institute for the Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC):

AIC is pleased to announce the launch of a new collaborative wiki website, based on the specialty group Catalogs. The site, www.conservation-wiki.com, was made possible by a generous grant from the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training (NCPTT).

In 2008, FAIC was awarded $23,000 from the NCPTT to convert the Conservation Catalogs to wiki format. The Catalogs are reference manuals that include descriptions of materials and techniques used to preserve and treat works of art and historic artifacts. There are four Catalogs in print produced on a volunteer basis by AIC specialty groups: the Book and Paper Catalogs, the Paintings Catalog, the Photographic Materials Catalog, and the Textiles Catalog. Together they comprise over a thousand pages of information that is crucial for the field of conservation.

The print Catalogs have now been converted into digital format on the wiki. The site is based on the MediaWiki platform, software that was designed for Wikipedia.org.  The wiki version of the Catalogs will allow editors to work collaboratively and efficiently to update and augment the Catalogs, and will provide much broader access to these resources, ensuring that innovative methods and materials are documented and widely disseminated to practicing conservators and conservation scientists. While only the designated specialty group editors can directly edit the wiki entries, other visitors to the site can register and post relevant comments on selections.

 

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Recently Published Articles

A new article in .PDF format, on Artists' Alkyd Paints, by Dr. Rebecca Ploeger (Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Torino, IT).  Look in Discussion Forums, under Articles. 

We think this is important information for artists who use alkyd paints.

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