"Lockdown" Tutorials Provide Helpful Tips To Care For Art at Home

Earlier in 2020 the Balboa Art Conservation Center's conservation team made a series of videos from their respective residences during statewide stay-at-home orders. The goal was to provide helpful, easy tips that anyone could implement to protect and clean the artwork they have at their home. The videos are handy, often humorous, and wonderfully homemade. Originally created for Instagram, they are now archived on YouTube as well.  

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BACC Care of Paintings Home Edition - Part 1:
​Environmental Control and Lighting ​

In the first "Care of Paintings" tutorial, BACC's Assistant Conservator of Paintings Morgan Wylder uses work in her home to show how proper environmental control and lighting can make your paintings last and be less susceptible to damage.

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BACC Care of Paintings Home Edition - Part 2:
​Examination and Dusting 

BACC's Chief Conservator of Paintings Alexis Miller created the second tutorial, recruiting family members to help show how to properly exam and dust paintings at home.

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BACC Care of Paintings Home Edition - Part 3:
​Framing and Hanging ​

In the third "Care of Paintings" tutorial Morgan Wylder returns to share the ins and outs of proper framing and hanging.

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BACC Care of Paper Home Edition :
How to Store Your Family Treasures 

In the "Care of Paper" tutorial, BACC's Associate Conservator of Paper Sara Bisi covers best practices for storing common family treasures.