Public Art Conservation: The District of Columbia and the City Washington have a large Public Art program and collection dispersed widely around the city and district. The collection also includes not only new commissions but legacy artworks and monuments. This…
Public Art: McKay Lodge Art Conservation Laboratory provides conservation services to the national public art collection administered by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA). Work takes place throughout the contiguous United States as well as in Alaska, Hawaii, the U.S.…
Masters of CO2 Cleaning: A video in our MASTERS SERIES. https://vimeo.com/228650922 SOUND: Headphones or speakers are highly recommended. No computer sound? This website and this video on CO2 cleaning are available on your smartphone too. This video shows the…
CLEVELAND OHIO: PPG CORP. PROVIDING MATERIAL AND TECHNICAL EXPERTISE TO AID IN PIONEERING OPTIMAL REPAIR AND PROTECTION TREATMENTS FOR Painted OUTDOOR SCULPTURES BY LUIS A. JIMÉNEZ Outdoor Painted Sculpture Conservation: Three years ago, the leading automotive finishes company, PPG Industries,…
Conservators of Public Art Nationally for 20 years For the past 20 years (as of 2019), McKay Lodge Conservation Laboratory has been busily engaged in the conservation of Public Art throughout the United States, principally in work caring for the…
In the news, the Cleveland area art conservation center McKay Lodge Conservation Laboratory, Inc. working with the Freer Gallery using dry ice carbon dioxide (CO2) blasting to clean a Saint-Gaudens sculpture from the collection. Source: This museum is blasting precious…
Augustus Saint-Gaudens Conservation: In July 2017, conservators Thomas Podnar and Christina Simms from the Cleveland area art conservation center McKay Lodge Conservation Laboratory used dry ice or carbon dioxide (CO2) blasting to clean a bronze sculpture by Augustus Saint-Gaudens from…
McKay Lodge Conservation Laboratory, Inc. working with the Freer Gallery using dry ice (CO2) to clean an Augustus Saint-Gaudens sculpture from the collection. The beauty of dry ice cleaning is the efficient and environmentally safe process; but also the procedure…
In July 2017, McKay Lodge, Inc. makes a medium-sized new equipment purchase and adds a third multi-purpose tractor/forklift to our art and material handling equipment. This John Deere 5065E with an H240 loader falls between, in capacity, our older 2,000…
McKay Lodge Conservation Laboratory's years of deep research into the materials and methods of sculptures by Luis Jiménez led to the highly successful restoration of correct appearance and now extreme durability…