The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth
Kellen Haak, Collections Manager and Head Registrar
(Currently Kellen is no longer with the Hood.)

In 2005 the Hood was the first U.S. museum to acquire a work by El Anatsui:
Hovor, 2003, aluminum bottle tops and copper wire, approximately 240 x 216 inches. At the time of the purchase, Hovor was traveling in the exhibition GAWU. Kellen didn’t actually see the work in person until January 2007, when GAWU arrived at the Hood. At that point it had already been to five exhibition venues in the United Kingdom and one in the U.S. (Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art). On arriving at the Hood, it had therefore gone through at least six cycles of installation and deinstallation.

Kellen: Over all, my experience with GAWU at the Hood was delightful. I think there were five or six "cloths" in the show. One of the cloths for the Hood's show was a new work, an add-on ...

By Perry Hurt, Associate Paintings Conservator
North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA)

With contributions by:

Kurt Christian, Head Preparator, Saint Louis Art Museum
Kevin Etherton, Installation Coordinator, National Museum of African Art,
Smithsonian Institution
Christine Giuntini, Conservator, Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas,
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Kellen Haak, formerly Collections Manager and Head Registrar, Hood Museum of
Art at Dartmouth
Kinsey Katchka, Associate Curator of Modern and African Art, NCMA
Mark Milani, Chief Preparator, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Rachel Raynor, Collections Manager, Fowler Museum at UCLA
Kendra Roth, Conservator of Modern and Contemporary Sculpture, Metropolitan
Museum of Art





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Deinstallation of the first hanging: the artwork has been lowered to the floor. The tube/boom is being removed from the lifts, North Carolina Museum of Art


The prepared wall covered with Ethafoam, North Carolina Museum of Art


The artwork in place at the bottom of the wall, the tube/boom beside it the lifts in place ready to attach the tube, North Carolina Museum of Art

The artwork halfway up, folded over the boom,North Carolina Museum of Art

The art handlers are happy with the new hanging process, North Carolina Museum of Art

The installed artwork supported by chopsticks, North Carolina Museum of Art

The artwork before sculpting, North Carolina Museum of Art ...

PACIN presents this article in support of the Mountmakers Forum. In doing so we seek to promote the appreciation of this important discipline within the field of preventive conservation. Mountmaking plays an important role in the safe handling, display, transport and storage of the artifacts that we care for. Please plan on attending the next Mountmakers Forum slated for 2012 (details will be provided as they become available) and in the mean time please take part in the discussions found here in the Mountmaking section of the PACIN Forum as well as in the Mountmakers Forum web-group. A link to view streaming footage of the Forum can be found at the end of the article.



Second International Mountmaking Forum
Hosted by the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
May 5-6, 2010
Reported by BJ Farrar
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This Article is the first of two that feature the North Carolina Museum of Art. This article generously appears here courtesy ...

We have an article pending on this topic.
In the mean time we have some good current content on the PACIN Forum under the topic "Lighting".
To go there now click HERE.


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