***ARCS Founding Board Member Irene Taurins - Retirement*** ARCS wants to congratulate founding board member Irene Taurins on her retirement after forty-two years at the Philadelphia Museum of Art! Here is a brief profile that Irene submitted for a previous 2018 ARCS Update and again congratulations Irene!
"I am one of the founding board members of ARCS and registration is my passion and identity. I have been at the Philadelphia Museum of Art for forty years, so clearly I love what I do. My devotion to the preservation and sharing of great art goes back to childhood – my father was a small, but avid collector. I love solving problems and working out logistics. I even like fine arts insurance! Part of the job of a registrar is to safeguard art when it moves, and traveling to exotic places for our worthy work is a welcome side benefit. I just returned from a trip to Denmark, a first for me. I have traveled around the world on a courier trip from Philadelphia to Taiwan to Paris and back to Philadelphia in a week. The Registration community has always been giving, open and sharing and I treasure being a member of it. I am finding it hard to think of retiring as I find registration so fulfilling. But even retirement from my day job won’t stop me from our ARCS mission." ***MRM 6 Giveaway*** Did you enter our Museum Registration Methods, 6th Edition, giveaway? Current ARCS Members can log in to your ARCSInfo.org account and, after confirming or updating your membership profile, click on the “Enter Here to Win a Free Copy of MRM6!” button that appears on the Manage Your Profile Page. Enter to win before August 31!! Questions? Contact i...@arcinfo.org Manage Your Profile and Enter to Win Here: http://www.arcsinfo.org/membership/manage-your-profile ***ARCS New Board Member Alicia Thomas*** The ARCS Board is excited to welcome Alicia Thomas, Principal of Nail-to-Nail, as one of three new members to our Board of Directors. With a portfolio of registration, collections, and exhibitions experience spanning twenty-seven years, Alicia has held positions at several art museums, and recently left her full-time position to launch a company specializing in collections care and exhibitions management. For the past 8 years, Alicia was the Director of Exhibitions & Collections Management for the Palm Springs Art Museum. In this capacity, she oversaw the art, archives, and library collections and raised the standards of collections care to align with best practices. With an affinity for conservation and preservation, she wrote two collections grants awarded by the IMLS and NEH, and now serves as a reviewer. She has handled every type of art shipment from ocean freighter to helicopter and coordinated over one hundred exhibitions. Prior to working in Palm Springs, Alicia spent twelve years at the National Gallery of Art coordinating exhibitions and loans from the collection to museums worldwide. She also managed loans to the President, the President’s cabinet, US ambassadors, and justices of the Supreme Court. Finally, Alicia worked five years as a registrar at the J. Paul Getty Museum and Vassar College. She holds an M.A. in art history and a B.A. in fine arts. Shortly after joining the ARCS board, Alicia started an intensive course in appraising fine arts and antiques through the Appraiser’s Association of America. This was a natural direction to pursue having grown up with parents who collected art and owned an antique shop. Now that she has completed her classes and passed the core competency exam, she looks forward to offering this new service to private collectors and museum clients. In her personal time, Alicia enjoys collecting art and ceramics, gardening, and spoiling her Cavalier King Charles Spaniels. ***Save the Date! ARCS Webinar September 30th at 2:00 p.m. EST: Boxes, Tubes & Pallets, Oh My! Choosing and Using Safe Materials for Collection Housing*** Mark your calendars to join instructor Rachael Perkins Arenstein, Principal, A.M. Art Conservation, LLC for this webinar that will focus on choosing appropriate materials for storage that won’t inadvertently damage your collections over time. Making wise decisions about products and how they are used in rehousing projects will stretch your budget to get the most preservation bang for your buck. For more info: http://www.arcsinfo.org/news-events/event/1326/1/arcs-boxes-tube-pallets-oh-my-choosing-and-using-safe-materials-for-collection-housing ***#ARCSchat September 1 at 1:00 p.m. ET*** Buddha says "Wear your ego like a loose-fitting garment." In these crazy times of furloughs, layoffs, lockdowns, and unionizing, #ARCSchat returns to un-tailor your work attire with a second season of their YouTube Live chat with a conversation with Joan Baldwin, the 2019 ARCS conference keynote speaker, author of Leadership Matters, and prolific blogger. Joan will help us undress the institutional unrest going on at the moment and help us walk the catwalk to becoming our own best advocates. In preparation for this chat, we recommend that you revisit her keynote address from last November here (https://youtu.be/tZESvBMfxhg) and also read her recent blog "The Museum Crisis: Does Reflection Help?". ( https://leadershipmatters1213.wordpress.com/2020/08/10/the-museum-crisis-does-reflection-help/ ) Lastly, #ARCSchat wants to introduce a new segment called "A Day in the Life" that involves you and your crazy job stories. With the voice recorder on your phone, record a 2-5 minute clip telling us the following: 1. Who you are 2. Where you work 3. A crazy or unique work experience you had whether it happened in the past or during the lockdown. Email the clip to i...@arcsinfo.org and we'll include it in the podcast version of the chat. ***ER Sub-Committee Instagram Takeover*** Join the ARCS Emergency Programming Sub-Committee this week for an Instagram Takeover! They will be talking all things hurricane preparedness - but even if you don't live in a hurricane area, there will still be something for you! Each day, committee members will break down a different aspect of hurricane response and preparedness, including preparing for long term closure, flood response, and mold recovery. Direct message them your questions to @arcs4all and tag them in your posts with your preparedness tips or response pics, and follow the hashtags #RegistrarsRespond #CollectionsManagersRespond #ARCStotheRescue #collectionsemergency https://www.instagram.com/arcs4all/ _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l@mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://lists.mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/mcn-l@mcn.edu/
