While the McKay Lodge Conservation Team can undertake complex conservation projects around the United States, we also perform many local conservation treatments in the Greater Cleveland area. So, if you are from the Cleveland area, go a little early before…
A "little bird" told us it needed some conservation in Indiana, so the McKay Lodge Conservation Team recently traveled to perform outdoor sculpture maintenance in Indianapolis. “Littlebird” is one part of two outdoor sculptures thinmanlittlebird by Peter Shelton installed in…
Sculpture Conservation & Gilding Conservation: While this unusual sculpture conservation treatment was completed in 2014, it is not until now that we can report, with some confidence, its success. This is due to needing a period of years to determine…
Outdoor Sculpture Conservation: The Jaume Plensa sculpture, TALE TELLER VI, recently required a little "rescuing" by Senior Conservator of Sculpture, Thomas Podnar. The sculpture is a part of the of the Charles B. Hayes Family Sculpture Park at the Snite Museum…
Outdoor Sculpture Conservation, Public Art Conservation: Here’s one work of Public Art Clevelanders may want to know more about. What must be the most controversial outdoor sculpture work of Public Art in Cleveland, Ohio if not the largest, the heaviest,…
Outdoor Painted Sculpture, Painted Outdoor Sculpture Conservation, Public Art Conservation: The colorful glass fiber painted outdoor sculpture by Luis A. Jiménez, FIESTA JARABE, was reinstalled by Cleveland area McKay Lodge Art Conservation Laboratory in mid-August 2017 in scorching heat at…
Sculpture Conservation: Cleveland area art conservation center McKay Lodge Conservation Laboratory, Inc. is serious about the use of dry ice solid carbon dioxide (CO2) blasting for art conservation treatment. We would like to share some news and videos from our…
Sculpture conservation Cleveland: The sculpture conservation section of McKay Lodge Conservation Laboratory did something different involving sculpture conservation in Cleveland recently. It put sculpture conservation knowledge and skills to a very different purpose - preservation through replication. Two cast bronze…
Public Art Conservation: We are closing in on finishing our many Public Art conservation projects around the United States for the GSA Art-in-Architecture program under our 2017 final GSA contract year. Many of these are outdoor sculptures. Some of 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,…