{"id":3129,"date":"2013-02-11T22:19:46","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T22:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/preservation\/?p=3129"},"modified":"2013-02-12T03:21:56","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T03:21:56","slug":"assessment-and-cleaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/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\/conservation\/files\/2013\/02\/Assessment.jpg\" alt=\"Assessment\" width=\"359\" height=\"202\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3131\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2013\/02\/Assessment.jpg 359w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2013\/02\/Assessment-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2013\/02\/Assessment-195x110.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 359px) 100vw, 359px\" \/><\/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\/conservation\/files\/2013\/02\/Cleaning.jpg\" alt=\"Cleaning\" width=\"359\" height=\"202\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3132\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2013\/02\/Cleaning.jpg 359w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2013\/02\/Cleaning-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2013\/02\/Cleaning-195x110.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 359px) 100vw, 359px\" \/><\/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&#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<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/2013\/02\/11\/assessment-and-cleaning\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Assessment and Cleaning&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,12],"tags":[30,32,31],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3129"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3129"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3136,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3129\/revisions\/3136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3129"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=3129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}