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Nationally-recognized painting conservator Richard White and Ogden Museum Curator David Houston present a talk titled Conserving a Culture: Post-Katrina New Orleans at the Knoxville Museum of Art on Sunday, February 1, 2009.Each discuss their involvement with post-Katrina artwork restorations. Houston and Wright worked on paintings from a damaged storage room and will discuss the difficulty of logistics, transportation and storage in a damaged infrastructure; the problems associated with water and mold, and the process of analysis and treatment of paintings which comes out of a dialogue between the curator and the conservator.This program is presented in collaboration with the University of Tennessee, Ewing Gallery and the exhibit Before and After Katrina: The Photography Collections of the Ogden Museum on exhibit at the UT Ewing Gallery from February 3-March 1, 2009. On view will be a selection of over 50 photographs from this New Orleans museum’s collection. Included will be works by noted photographers Walker Evans, William Eggleston, William Christenberry, and Eudory Welty.

• Category

  Learning

• Release Date

  Feb 3, 2009

• Runtime

  43:29