{"id":1427,"date":"2013-02-11T22:19:46","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T22:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/preservation\/?p=3129"},"modified":"2013-02-11T22:19:46","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T22:19:46","slug":"assessment-and-cleaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/2013\/02\/11\/assessment-and-cleaning\/","title":{"rendered":"Assessment and Cleaning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, February 11, 2013<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/preservation\/2013\/02\/11\/assessment-and-cleaning\/assessment\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3131\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/preservation\/files\/2013\/02\/Assessment.jpg\" alt=\"Assessment\" width=\"359\" height=\"202\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3131\" \/><\/a>Today I spent most of the day inspecting close to 150 art works on paper for mold. It&#8217;s very time consuming. The front and back of each piece of art needed to be entirely visually inspected &#8212; each inch. I only found a handful that I thought a paper conservator should take a second look at. With reassurance that the pieces are free of mold, the artist can take his time making decisions on how to deal with his water-damaged works.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/preservation\/2013\/02\/11\/assessment-and-cleaning\/cleaning\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3132\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/preservation\/files\/2013\/02\/Cleaning.jpg\" alt=\"Cleaning\" width=\"359\" height=\"202\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3132\" \/><\/a>Two volunteer conservators spent the day at the center cleaning the backs of artwork on canvas with a soot sponge. The paintings had already been treated and vacuumed. They finished the entire group and the paintings are ready to be picked up by the artist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, February 11, 2013 Today I spent most of the day inspecting close to 150 art works on paper for mold. It&rsquo;s very time consuming. The front and back of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}