Antonio Addari
Managing Director
Arterìa srl
Milano, Italy
E-mal:
aaddari@arteria.it, Website:
www.arteria.it
Antonio Addari was born in Italy in 1954, and studied in Rome, Italy. He has a degree in economics from the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. He started to work in the Fine Art Shipping business in 1975 and in 1988 joined Propileo Transport as partner and Manager of Operations.
As of 2000, with the merging of Propileo Transpor in Arterìa srl, he has been actively working on the organization and development of Arterìa srl, the leading company in Italy for the fine art packing and shipping with offices in Milan, Rome, Florence, Venice and Turin.
From 2001 to 2009 he was the General Director of Arterìa srl, with the responsibility to coordinate all the IT systems, operations, procedures, logistics, quality development, personnel training and coordination with all the different offices. In 2010 he became the Managing Director of Arterìa srl working mainly in Milan and Rome.
Antonio has also been a teacher and consultant in various universities and training courses for packing and handling of works of art, logistics and shipping. He has been speaker at IRS2 2007 in Chicago (Fine art Export License in Italy); AAM 2010 in Los Angeles (International Art Couriers …an agent view); Prep Con 3 at Campbell Center in 2013; ARCS 2013 in Chicago (Borrowing from Italy).
Jarod Atkins
Lead Preparator
Museum of the Bible
Oklahoma City, OK
405-694-1779
Jarod.atkins@mbible.org
In January of 2016, I became a part of the museum of the Bible as lead preparator. My job functions include properly crating and shipping artifacts around the world, while also helping care for and condition the items that will be on display. I helped produce displays throughout Oklahoma City and the United States as well as overseas including Cuba and Germany.
My first involvement with the museum of the Bible, was working with the traveling exhibit Passages when it was first displayed in Oklahoma City. My past jobs include work at the Edmond History Museum, the Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame, and the Oklahoma City Museum of Art. My educational background includes a BA in Museum Studies from the University of Central Oklahoma and my MA from the University of Oklahoma. I celebrated my 10
th wedding anniversary recently with my beautiful wife Ellie and have a 3-year-old son Bailan who loves Superman.
Vincent L. Beltran
Assistant Scientist
Getty Conservation Institute
Los Angeles, CA
310.440.6230
vbeltran@getty.edu
Vincent L. Beltran is an Assistant Scientist at The Getty Conservation Institute. He holds a B.S. in General Chemistry from the University of California, Los Angeles and a M.S. in Oceanography from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. In addition to his study of the transportation environment, his research interests include the mechanical characterization of historic materials, the effect of low oxygen-environments on color change, and assessments of environmental management systems, the last of which has been summarized in the book titled “Environmental Management for Collections: Alternative Conservation Strategies for Hot and Humid Climates” co-authored with Shin Maekawa and Michael C. Henry.
Marc Bongaarts
Head of Collection Care Technicians
Stedelijk Museum
Amsterdam, Netherlands
M.Bongaarts@stedelijk.nl
Marc Bongaarts started working at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam in 2002. For the last twelve years, Marc has been in charge of the department for Collection Care Technicians. A department which prepares all collection movements as well as unpacking/packing incoming loans for exhibitions. Moving and installing technical challenging and big heavy objects is a specialty. In this time Marc has planned and prepared the move of the whole collection to a new purpose built storage facility. In the same time Marc was in charge of reinstalling the collection after the museum was closed for a 10 year renovation and building of a new extension, making the museum twice as big.
The department for Collection Care Technicians works from two locations. Three technicians work at the storage facility, which houses a big workshop where they make their own travel and storage crates, mainly for 3d objects. Up to six hired art handlers work at Museum square per project. It has been a steady team for the last seven years, so they feel like staff!
His love for modern and contemporary art makes him really feel at home at the Stedelijk.
Pablo Brouwer
Conservation Technician
RLA Conservation of Art + Architecture
Miami FL
Pbrouwer@rosalowinger.com
Pablo Brouwer, Conservation Technician, holds a 1984 B.A. in Industrial Design from the lnstituto Politecnico de Diseno Industrial in Havana, Cuba. With RLA since June 2014, Pablo works directly under chief technician Humberto Del Rio on bronze, masonry, and mosaics conservation and is well versed in cleaning and repairs. Prior to joining RLA Pablo worked for 2 years as a gallery preparator and technician for the Nina Menocal Gallery in Mexico City and produced, wrote and co-hosted Estando en Casa (Being at Home) a home improvement television program on Mexico City’s public television Channel 11.
Jacqueline Cabrera
PRESIDENT
ASSOCIAITON OF REGISTRARS AND COLLECTION SPECIALISTS
HOME ADDRESS: 264 East Avenue 33, LA, CA 90031
323-672-6799
jacquicabrera@yahoo.com
Jacqueline is currently Principal at Cabrera Art Management, is President and Founding Board member of the Association of Registrars and Collection Specialists. From 2013-16 she was Assoc. Registrar for Exhibitions at the J. Paul Getty Museum, from 1996-2013 was the Assoc. Registrar for the Getty Villa where she coordinated/negotiated loans/shipments to the collection and exhibitions, managed the antiquities collection, and supervised/trained the dept. intern. From 2008-2011; was the Chair of the Registrars Committee Western Region (RC-WR) and board member of the Registrars Committee of the American Association of Museums. As the RC-WR Chair she oversaw a professional development program for 9 western states for registrars/collection managers and 26 elected/appointed positions. Board member of the Western Museum Association from 2009 - 2015. In 2011, participated in the NextGen leadership training program administered by the Getty Leadership institute at the Claremont Graduate University. From 2010-13, served on the Irvine Valley College’s Advisory Forum Committee for their Collections & Exhibitions Management Technician Program. In 2009, she organized and conducted a two-day training review for the new Registrar’s Department at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Egypt. Since 2009 she was a guest lecturer for the UCLA/Getty’s Master’s Program on the Conservation of Ethnographic and Archaeological Materials. In 2004, she completed the Riordan Volunteer Development Leadership Program. Over the years she has served on the Program Committees for AAM-Boston, WMA, CAM & Art Table, Inc., and served as a board member for Urban Art, Inc. a L.A non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of outdoor sculpture. Prior to joining the Getty in 1996 she was the Registrar at the Long Beach Museum of Art and previously a Painting Department Assistant at Sotheby’s. She also interned at LACMA and at the Los Angeles County’s Natural History Museum. Jacqueline has a Bachelor of Arts in Art History from U.S.C.
Alexi Chisler
Supervisor, Exhibits and Technical
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Los Angeles, CA
213-763-3384
achisler@nhm .org
Alexi Chisler currently works as a Supervisor in the Exhibits Department at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, overseeing exhibition install and maintenance. Previously, she traveled for 4 years for the American Museum of Natural History (New York) as an Installation Coordinator (and later Manager) of their traveling exhibits. In that position she traveled and installed exhibitions at 10 museums per year around the world, including Natural History Museums and Science Centers in Singapore, Taiwan, Australia, Italy, Greece, Canada, and the United States. Previously she worked as an art installer at the Guggenheim Musuem, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, the Museum of Arts and Design as well as several galleries. She received a BFA in Sculpture from Virgina Commonwealth University, and an MFA in Sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design.
Humberto Del Rio
Chief Conservation Technician
RLA Conservation of Art + Architecture
Miami, FL
786-608-2743
hdelrio@rosalowinger.com
Humberto Del Rio, Chief Conservation Technician, will be the lead site technician. He holds a B.S. in Chemistry from Martires de Glr6n lnstituto Politecnico de Quimica in Havana, Cuba, with a specialization in Industrial Chemistry. From 2003-2004 Humberto served as a conservation technician trainee at the Cementerio de Cristobal Colon in Havana, Cuba, where he learned the theory and practice of marble, brick, bronze, and cast stone masonry conservation. He is the senior technician for all Florida-based projects at RLA since 2008. Humberto is the chief site supervisor for our large corporate theme park client in Orlando, FL, managing quarterly treatments to fountains and sculptures. He led the site work on the Kemper Memorial Fountain in Kansas City, MO, the Normandy Fountain on Miami Beach, FL, and is the senior technician on all conservation work at Vizcaya.
BJ Farrar
Sr. Mountmaker
J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, CA
310.440.7259
bjfarrar@getty.edu
BJ Farrar has been a museum professional for almost 30 years and is currently a Sr. Mountmaker in the Department of Decorative Arts and Sculpture Conservation at the Getty Museum specializing in seismic mountmaking. He has also worked in the Museum’s Antiquities Conservation department as a Sr. Mountmaker and as a Sr. Preparator in the Preparations Department. Prior to the Getty, he also worked at the Seattle Art Museum as a mountmaker/preparator.
Mr. Farrar has presented multiple times on the subjects of mountmaking and seismic mitigation, including The Advances in the Protection of Museum Collections from Earthquake Damage symposium series, WAAC, PACCIN and The International Mountmaking Forum (of which he is a co-founder).
Rita Gomez
Senior Lead Preparator
J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, CA
rgomez@getty.edu
Rita Gomez is a Senior Lead Preparator at the J. Paul Getty Museum, specializing in Packing and Crating. She started her career at the Getty in 1986. She continues to develop the packing systems in use at the Getty today. Rita has lent her expertise to many projects including developing packing techniques for Tutankhamen’s Tomb at the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt with the Getty Conservation Institute and Saint Catherine’s Monastery on the Sinai Peninsula in Saint Catherine, Egypt for the packing and movement of Manuscript and Icon collections for exhibition at the Getty Museum. Rita has presented at several conferences on Packing and Crating techniques for PACCIN (Preparation, Art Handling, and Collections Care Information Network), ARCS (Association of Registrars and Collection Specialists), and AIC (American Institute of Conservation). Prior to the Getty, Rita was the warehouse manager for Cooke’s Crating.
Sean Harrison
Exhibit Technician
Bullock Texas State History Museum
Austin, TX
206-430-4216
seanhebdo@gmail.com
Sean Harrison was raised in the north delta regions of Mississippi by ceramicists. He has worked in exhibit and commercial art galleries, museums, and private or corporate art collections over 20 years mostly in the Pacific North-West. In that trade he has learned that it takes an unbelievable amount of blue painters tape and black sharpies to make any art show look good. Sean is afraid of all the colors in art sets and he doesn’t want to create anything new or extra in this world, he believes that there are enough objects to work with artistically; creative beauty lies in the juxtapositions and proper care of what we have.
He recently moved from Seattle to Austin, and from a long career in mostly non-profit fine art handling and logistics to a position in a state funded history museum building walls, cases and artifact mounts. He is now finding surprise at the similarities in institutional operations, frequent challenges, and that most conversations are common in the halls of all museums. This change in venue is proving that we of PACCIN do have a universal professional trade of cultural asset preservation and presentation which manifests in many formats. What we art handlers, mount-makers, technicians and preparators do is and creates enduring value across many disciplines.
Richard Hinson
Senior Preparator, Collections
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Houston, TX
(713) 639-7734, (281) 330-7260
rhinson@mfah.org
Richard Hinson is the Senior Preparator, Collections, for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Richard has a BS Degree in Music: Theory and Composition from Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas and a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Photography from the University of Houston. He began working at the MFA,H in 1991 after leaving graduate school and, that year, assisted with opening the museum’s first off-site art storage building. Over the past twenty-five years he has focused most of his attention on off-site storage for the museum. He was on the design team that worked on assessing the storage needs of the collection, determining the types of primary storage the collection would need and the final design of the new Park 288 Art Storage Building completed in 2015.
Jeff Isaacs
US Representative - TAKIYA
Shaker Heights, OH
jeff.us@takiya.com
216 403-9162
http://www.takiya.com/en/
Jeff Isaacs manages North American business for Takiya Co, the Japan-based maker of art hanging hardware. He’s been with Takiya since 2010. He has also worked as a teacher, a translator, an editor, and as an apprentice art restorer and art handler. He holds a BA from Vassar College, and an MA in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from University of Chicago where he studied Japanese film and popular culture. He serves on the Board of Education in Shaker Heights, OH.
Julia Latané
PACCIN Programs Chair
Head Preparator
The Broad
Los Angeles, CA
jlatane@thebroad.org
213-232-6228
Julia Latané is Head Preparator at The Broad, a new contemporary art museum in downtown Los Angeles. For 20 years, Ms. Latané has built and installed exhibitions in museums and galleries, including as Head Preparator of the Autry Museum for six years, and as a freelance preparator for the Broad Art Foundation, Gagosian Gallery, and the Santa Monica Museum of Art. She has also worked building crates at a fine art shipping company, and doing construction, including carpentry, home remodels, and building warehouses into art studios. She is a Founder of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tucson, Arizona, where she served as President of the Board and curated the inaugural exhibitions. MOCA Tucson is celebrating its 20
th anniversary in 2017. Julia strives to live by her ideals, taking care of the planet, creating work environments that empower people to be their best selves. She loves solving all kinds of problems. She likes making stuff, and she likes making stuff happen.
Kevin Marshall
PACCIN Programs Committee
Head of Preparation
Department
J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, CA
Kmarshall@getty.edu
310-440-7058
Kevin Marshall has served as the Head of the Preparation Department for the J.Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center and the Getty Villa with a staff of 23 since 2011.Between 2005 -2010 he was the Lead Preparator at the renovated Getty Villa where he managed the collection move and oversaw installation of the permanent collection of Antiquities and special exhibitions. From 1995-2004 Kevin was the Lead Preparator for the pack and move of the permanent collections to the Getty Center and collection installation as well as special exhibitions. Prior to joining the Getty, Kevin was a Special Services Supervisor for Fine Arts Express in Fort Worth Texas from 1985-1995. Prior to that he was a Driver/Art Handler with Direct Art Delivery in New York, NY. 1984-1985; and Preparator at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth,Texas 1983-1984.
He holds an MFA degree in Printmaking from Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas 1983.
T. Ashley McGrew
PACCIN Publications Chair
AIC, Collections Care Network Liaison
Preparator
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
Palo Alto, CA
646-265-5526
t.ashleymcgrew@gmail.com
T. Ashley McGrew is a Preparator at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, he also consults in the design of integrated handling/packing/storage systems promoting safe handling, shipment and storage of art and artifacts through a range of conditions with a long term logistical perspective in mind. He designs packing and crating solutions for individual objects as well as for entire traveling exhibitions. Art and Object provides staff training for museum staff and commercial art service providers and assists Institutions in updating equipment, the revision of procurement policies, and project management. During 5 years as a Lead Preparator for installation at the J. Paul Getty Museum, he supervised the installation of exhibitions as well as overseeing the museum's local and airport art transport. Prior to working for the Getty, McGrew was the Assistant Move Coordinator for Collections and Packing at the Smithsonian Institutions - National Museum of the American Indian. While there, he oversaw the care of the Museums 800 thousand object collection which included its packing and relocation in what may be the most “Green” large scale move project on record. The innovative packing systems and characteristic materials utilized on this project are on the forefront of packing systems for transport and storage of art and artifacts being utilized today. Prior to working for the Smithsonian he spend 5 years in the commercial Fine Art Services field in the largest and most diverse Art Market in the world where he worked as a head crate designer and packing/project supervisor in the New York offices of first - Fine Arts Express, and then ARTEX – Fine Arts Services. His initial experience in the Collections care field was gained during 8 years as Chief Preparator at the University of Oklahoma Museum of Art after studying Photography at Arizona State University's School of Art and participating in the Northlight Gallery Program.
McGrew has consulted on major collections move projects, designing custom packing, storage, and transport systems, as well as providing training for permanent and temporary staff.
He is a board member of PACCIN - Preparation, Art handling and Collections Care Information Network a 501-C- 3 where he is also the Chair of Publications managing the website and moderating the list serve. He also serves as PACCIN's liaison to AIC's Collections Care Network and is on the editorial board of STASH - Storage Techniques for Art, Science and History collections. He has presented in numerous sessions and workshops for the American Association of Museums, Western Museum Association, California Association of Museums, American Institute for Conservation and at International Preparators Conferences held in 2009, 2012 and 2013.
He has been a guest lecturer for the first three classes of the UCLA/Getty Graduate Conservation Program in Los Angeles California and his work has been included in JAIC – the Journal of the American Institute of Conservation. As Assistant Move Coordinator for Collections and Packing at NMAI he authored the related section of the NMAI move manual as well as scripts and shot lists for related videos found on the website. McGrew was a co-author of the Packing and Crating chapter of Museum Registration Methods, 5th Ed published in May of 2010. He is included in a special edition of Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals focusing on collections move projects published in 2011. His designs for storage systems were recently included in a special poster session co-sponsored by the Journal of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (JAIC) on storage solutions presented at the 2012 annual meeting of SPNHC- The Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections commemorating the 20 years since SPNHC's first publication of the seminal work "Storage of Natural History Collection: Ideas and Practical Solutions".
Dexter Nelson II
Preparator
Museum of the Bible
Oklahoma City, OK
405-326-1545
Dexter.nelson@mbible.org
Dexter Nelson II is a Preparator at the Museum of the Bible in Oklahoma. He has a Bachelor’s degree in History from the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma and a Master’s degree in Museum Studies from the University of Central Oklahoma. He has worked at numerous museums ranging from the Edmond Historical Society and museum to the Oklahoma History Center. When he is not packing or mounting artifacts for an exhibit he spends his time relaxing with his lovely wife Kylee and his dog T’Challa.
Brent Powell
Ex Officio PACCIN Board Member
Private Consultant
brent.powell@ymail.com
415-203-1801
Brent Powell has been involved in the collection care profession since 1984. Outside of his employment career he has be active since 1990 in the professional development aspects of the industry. Mr. Powell is the former chairman of PACCIN [Preparation Art Handling Collection Care Information Network] 1991–1999 and 2008–2013. He has co-organized three preparator conferences, numerous single-day workshops, presented sessions at national and regional museum conferences and webinars and on various collection care subjects in the United States, Australia, Malaysia and China. Brent has co-authored three publications and contributed to numerous professional collection care publications and newsletters. In his employment positions he has co-authored two working staff manuals, designed and structured training programs for new and full-time staff in the museum and commercial roles of his employment. In 2014-2015 he authored and published his book titled
“Collection Care / An Illustrated Handbook for the Care and Handling of Cultural Objects” by Roman and Littlefield, New York; 422 pages, 100+ photos and illustrations.
Mr. Powell has conducted private collection care courses at the Campbell Center for Historic Preservation Studies, Midwest Conservation Studies, and Housatonic Community College. For individual collectors’ staff and artists groups at JM Kohler Art Center and Foundation; US, State of Victoria; Australia, University of Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur; Malaysia and for the University of Hong Kong and M+ Museum, Hong Kong, China.
Mr. Powell has been employed extensively: Crozier Fine Arts, New York, NY, Artex Fine Arts, senior project manager for the National Museum of Health and Medicine relocation at Walter Reed Army Base in Washington, DC.; Asian Art Museum in San Francisco as head of preparation; National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia, manager of art services; International Art Services in Sydney, Australia, director of museum services; Fortress FAE in Baltimore, MD, director of special projects; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, MO, chief preparator; Smith Kramer Fine Art Services in Kansas City, MO, production manager. Brent also holds a M.F.A. in Painting from the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 1983.
Sarah Titheridge
Director
ArtTechSpace
London, England
+44(0)779544 7706
sarah@arttech space. com
After many years as an art technician, from museum to shipping company, full-timing and freelancing, hiring and being hired, I realised that there had to be a better way to connect people in the industry. So I created ArtTechSpace.com - an online community of art technicians and their employers. It is an active community of people who make art happen: art technicians / art handlers / museum technicians / framers / fabricators /conservators etc. and a place to find art technical information, products and services to help you and your business.
Mark Wamaling
Training and Development Manager
Artex Fine Art Services
Landover, MD
301-440-8670
mwamaling@gmail.com
Mark Wamaling has been an advocate for the art handling profession throughout his many years of staff training at Artex Fine Art Services and as a contributor to workshops, webinars and museum conferences around the country. He has over twenty-five years of experience in art handling, packing, and crating design for museum exhibitions as well as large collection relocations. In 2014 he became Chair of the Preparation, Art handling, Collections Care Information Network (PACCIN) and was a co-organizer of the PACCIN Summit at The Old U.S. Mint at the New Orleans Jazz National Historic Park, National Park Service, New Orleans, LA, 2015. Mark was also co-organizer of the PACCIN/ARCS workshop Packing & Crating Dynamics, Current and Future Trends at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, PA, 2014. He has been a speaker at several workshops and conferences on the topics of packing, crating, materials and rigging.