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Film Featuring BACC Co-Founder, George Stout, Screening Until Oct. 11

10/5/2020

 
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A documentary that tells the story of one of BACC's founders, George Leslie Stout, is part of the official selection of films at the Arkhaios Cultural Heritage and Archaeology Film Festival.

Directed by Kevin Kelley and produced by Marie Wilkes, Stout Hearted: George Stout and the Guardians of Art, can be watched as part of the festivals's FREE online festivities between now and October 11.

Stout Hearted tells the story of George L. Stout, an art student from Winterset, Iowa, who became the leader of the Monuments Men during World War II. This group, a military special forces unit, was assigned the mission of retrieving stolen art from the Nazis. The film also explores Stout's pioneering efforts in the areas of art conservation which elevated the discipline into the world of modern science.

In the 70s, Stout was serving as the visiting director at the Timken Museum of Art when he noticed a growing need to establish a conservation center for the San Diego area’s growing cultural heritage. He teamed up with Henry Gardiner, then director of the San Diego Art Museum, to develop a plan for the center and in March 1975 BACC was incorporated as a private, nonprofit organization.

BACC Staff Conserve Century-Old Mural in San Diego Home

9/8/2020

 
BACC conservators were called out of the lab this July to carry out a conservation treatment on an early 20th-century relief mural by a well-known San Diego Impressionist painter. Although the mural is undated it is likely more than 100 years old. Remarkably, it still survives in its San Diego home. 

The piece features a tranquil desert scene that was first sculpted in relief on the wall, and then later painted in earth tones with splashes of bright color. When coupled with the beautiful craftsman architectural features of the room, the California Impressionist mural instantly transports one back to the San Diego of the early 20th century.

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Paintings conservators Morgan Wylder and Bianca Garcia (first photo) led this mural project but used the opportunity to cross-train paper conservator Sara Bisi (shown in second photo, on the right, with Bianca Garcia on the left) in mural conservation as a part of BACC’s NEH Cares Act Grant initiative.

​The NEH Cares Act Grant is funding BACC’s conservators to cross-train one another within their specialties and is designed to strengthen the organization's ability to work during the economic downturn that has occurred due to the health crisis. Cross-training core staff develops and fine-tunes the team’s capacity to respond to fluctuations in project workflow, and ensures both that all team members have work during this unpredictable time and that all conservation projects can be completed in a timely manner for BACC’s member institutions and clients.

The BACC team stabilized some local areas of cracking plaster on the mural, gently and safely dusted the piece, and inpainted a few small, scattered plaster and paint losses throughout the room to visually reintegrate them into the greater composition. Now the mural is both structurally stable and visually refreshed. It is complete, once again.  

Considering its age, the fact that the mural was found in such good condition is a testament to the generations of careful stewards who have owned the house since its creation. This, of course, includes the current owners of the house, who admirably prioritized the preservation of the mural so that it will continue to live on. This project reveals how it's not only institutions like museums that preserve local art and heritage for future generations, but it's individuals within our community, as well. 

Balboa Park TV Features BACC

9/8/2020

 
Watch this video produced by the Balboa Park Cultural Partnership and learn a few fun facts about BACC. Thanks for featuring us, BPCP! ​​

Making Headlines with our new program: PRESERVE COMMUNITY ART!

9/2/2020

 
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The Balboa Art Conservation Center's newest initiative, Preserve Community Art! was created as part of the organization’s ongoing commitment to protect important cultural heritage. Through this program BACC provides pro bono art conservation services for culturally significant works that emerge from community-led movements in the San Diego area. 

Here is just some of the press coverage that resulted from the program's announcement:
​ABC10 News: "Some San Diego County Organizations to Preserve Artwork Following Protests"​​

Art Daily:  "BACC Announces Program to Protect and Elevate Artwork from Social Justice Movements"


KPBS: "Local Art Conservators To Preserve Protest Art"

KUSI: "Balboa Art Conservation Center Begins Social Justice Art Preservation Program"

San Diego Union Tribune: "Column: Why the Balboa Park Conservation Center Thinks Protest Art is Worth Protecting"

Times of San Diego: "George Floyd Murals, Similar Works Sought by Balboa Art Conservation Center"

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Learn more about the Preserve Community Art! program by visiting its webpage here.

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

8/3/2020

 
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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