PACCIN Chats is an online series of short presentations, interviews and discussions on a wide variety of topics of interest to the PACCIN community. PACCIN Chats are intended to be a way for art preparation, collections care, and fine art services professionals to connect and share knowledge, as well as be a forum to promote new voices and perspectives within the community.
PACCIN Chats are an evolution of an idea originated during quarantine for COVID-19 by Matthew Driggs, a supervisor of art installations at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, who wanted to connect art preparators on his team to other industry professionals. PACCIN has partnered with Matt to expand his vision of accessible, virtual knowledge-sharing to include the worldwide PACCIN audience. PACCIN Chats are recorded and are made available on the PACCIN website as resources for the community.
Request for new Presentations
We are looking for Preparators, Art Handlers and other Collections Care professionals who are interested in providing presentations for future PACCIN Chats. Topics can be wide-ranging; we encourage presentations, interviews or discussions of interest within the industry, including packing and installation projects, professional development, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion discussions and new health & safety standards for the workplace.
PACCIN provides educational programs to the community, content should not be any form of promotion of any commercial services or products. If you haven’t presented before, no problem! PACCIN Chats are intended to be an easier, more accessible and less formal way than a traditional conference presentation to share your knowledge, discoveries or ideas with your peers. We work with you on getting your presentation set up.
Presentations are expected to be about ten minutes long. Send your proposals and questions to Jerry Smith, PACCIN Programs Committee Chair.
PACCIN Chat #7, May 28, 2021
Costume and Textiles Exhibitions: Planning and Installation
Melinda Kerstein, Costume Installation Specialist, and Rachel Tu, Associate Collections Manager for Costume and Textiles, at LACMA chat about planning and installation of a costume exhibition. They cover selecting the appropriate mounts and mannequins, dressing and mount making, organizing and tracking the parts of the ensembles, installation, and packing for travel.
PACCIN Chat #6, March 26, 2021
6.1) Edwin Menendez, API Supervisor, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
Installation of Robert Grosvenor, "Untitled (yellow)" Los Angeles to New York: Dwan Gallery, 1959-1971 at LACMA, March 19– September 10, 2017
6.2) Joe Bun Keo, Museum Exhibition Preparator/Art Handler, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art; Installation of Isamu Noguchi, "Sesshū"
ARCS Chat February 2, 2021: Installing the Butterfly Effect: Talking Collab w/PACCIN & Art Pro Net
“Now, more than ever, our profession requires unprecedented levels of collaboration and trust across staff, institutions, and professions in order to function. With this in mind, #ARCSchat collaborates with two other chats/podcasts representing the installation profession, PACCIN Chats and Art Pro Net to talk about how we collaborate professionally now. They will provide an art handlers' perspectives on virtual installs, establishing trust in lenders, traveling exhibitions in today's environment, and the road ahead.” - ARCS
Join our PACCIN colleagues:
Julia Latané: Head of Preparation and Installation at LACMA, PACCIN Advisory Committee
Jerry Smith: Sr. Collections Management Technician at LACMA, PACCIN Programs Chair
From Art Pro Net: Kelly Bennett, Founder of Art Pro Net and Head of Collections Management at the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art
PACCIN Chat #5, December 11, 2020
5.1) Renee Crist, Curator of Collections at America’s Car Museum, in Tacoma, Washington, will speak from her experience of managing hundreds of vehicles in all states of repair in a museum created from what was once the world’s largest privately-owned car collection.
5.2) Clara Deck, Conservator at 3d Conservation, and former Senior Conservator at The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, MI, will discuss cars, machines and industrial objects from a conservation standpoint, drawing on her experience with the massive collection amassed by the industrialist Henry Ford in which no machine was too small, or too large.
PACCIN Chat: Special Edition, December 6, 2020
This Special Edition of PACCIN Chats is a recorded discussion and interview with Marc Bongaarts, who is the Head of Collection Care Technicians at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, as well as a member of PACCIN’s Advisory Committee. The focus of this PACCIN Chat is a European perspective on the COVID-19 global pandemic and its effect on our European colleagues. Marc discusses this ongoing issue with PACCIN Chair Mark Wamaling, PACCIN’s Program’s Chair Jerry Smith, and Kurt Christian, PACCIN Advisory Committee Chair.
PACCIN Chat #4, September 25, 2020
4.1) Andrew Davis has worked in preparations and design at The Clark Art Institute, Mass MoCA, The Huntington, and most recently at The Getty Villa, where he handled lighting for the collection and for special exhibitions. He will be talking about museum gallery lighting.
4.2) Bella Quijano, Collections Management Technician for works on paper from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, will present on the various ways works on paper were prepared and packed for the museum's collection move to off-site storage.
PACCIN Chat #3, August 7, 2020
3.1) Matt Clark and Hawley Appleton of Clark Fine Art Services in Boston will speak about a recent project at the Harvard Art Museums in which a team of Clark FAS technicians worked with Museum registrars remotely to complete a pack job during the current Covid-19 Coronavirus Pandemic.
3.2) Seija Rohkea, former Exhibition Coordinator and Head Preparator at the Long Beach Museum of Art, will present about installing a unique exhibition of fresh graffiti art at the Museum.
PACCIN Chat #2, June 28, 2020
This interview was prerecorded. Kurt Christian, Chair to the PACCIN Advisory Committee, interviews Dale Benson, Chief Preparator at MFA Houston, on how their museum ramped up and opened on May 23, 2020.
PACCIN Chat #1, June 26, 2020
Meg Colburt (Director of Production at Boxart, NYC) and Derek Jones (Executive Director, Atelier FAS, Philadelphia, PA), organizers of the Art Services Worker Safety Coalition, gives a presentation about their new guidelines for health and safety protocols for art handlers in the Fine Art Services industry. This coalition represents art service companies, international shippers, and public institutions who met remotely this spring to develop workplace protocols in reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic.
LACMA Chats: Art Handlers Back to Work Conversation, May 22, 2020
LACMA Chats were created and facilitated during the Spring 2020 quarantine for COVID-19 by Matthew Driggs, a supervisor of art installations at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Matthew created the series in order to connect art preparators on his team to other industry professionals. This special edition of the LACMA Chat series is a roundtable discussion that features Julia Latané—Head of Art Preparation and Installation at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Kevin Marshall—Head of Preparation at the J. Paul Getty Museum, and Joshua Rosenblatt—Director of Exhibition and Collection Preparation at the Whitney Museum of American Art, discussing plans and protocols developed in preparation for returning to work after stay-at-home orders expired.
Note: This Chat includes a disclaimer regarding privacy and distribution that was a regular part of the LACMA Chat Series. Permission has been secured from the speakers in this Chat for public distribution through PACCIN.
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