Sunday June 14, 2015
1:00PM - 2:00PM
Thirteen Paper Stars: What it Takes to Display a Two Hundred Year Old Flag
Category :: Educational
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The American flag currently on display at the JMM is unique in several ways: made of Egyptian cotton, at a time when American flags were always made of wool, it has 13 paper stars and only 11 stripes. Why?
Explore the story of how this mysterious flag came into the collection of the JMM and what techniques were used to exhibit it safely at the Museum. You will have a chance to pose questions to the Collections Manager and to the Textile Conservator who worked on the flag to make it available for viewing in the exhibit.
Michele Pagan is a conservator in private practice, and a professional associate of the American Institute for Conservation. She has been conserving textiles since 1984, with clients such as the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, the National Museum of American History, the Valentine Museum in Richmond VA, and the State of Vermont, where she conserved the Civil War Flag collection. She practices conservation in Washington DC and Brookfield Vermont.
Explore the story of how this mysterious flag came into the collection of the JMM and what techniques were used to exhibit it safely at the Museum. You will have a chance to pose questions to the Collections Manager and to the Textile Conservator who worked on the flag to make it available for viewing in the exhibit.
Michele Pagan is a conservator in private practice, and a professional associate of the American Institute for Conservation. She has been conserving textiles since 1984, with clients such as the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, the National Museum of American History, the Valentine Museum in Richmond VA, and the State of Vermont, where she conserved the Civil War Flag collection. She practices conservation in Washington DC and Brookfield Vermont.
For More Information:
Location/Venue:
Jewish Museum of Maryland
Address:
15 Lloyd Street
City:
Baltimore
Zip/Postal:
21202
Contact Name:
Trillion Attwood
Phone:
410 732 6400
Email:
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