Subject: Summer work project at Shelburne Museum
The Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT <URL:http://www.shelburnemuseum.org> is offering a summer work project in the conservation treatment of polychrome sculpture. The project will either be eight weeks or eleven weeks in duration. The intern will document and treat a carousel horse made by the Gustav Dentzel factory in 1902 over the course of eight weeks. As an optional three week extension, the intern will document and treat a rounding board from the carousel. Each project has been chosen by donors to Shelburne Museum's Adopt a Carousel Animal Program. The animals are made of carved wood embellished with brass and glass ornaments. The rounding board is a painted flat wood panel. Past treatments of animals from the same carousel have involved removal of maintenance linseed oil coatings from the wood, metal, and glass surfaces and fabricating missing ornaments or portions of ornaments. In return for undertaking this internship nestled between the Adirondack and Green Mountains, we will provide a stipend of $1500 for eight weeks or $2000 for eleven weeks and a private room in a house shared with other museum interns. Interested individuals should send a cover letter, CV, and contact information for three references, only two of which may be from academia, to Nancie Ravenel <nravenel [at] shelburnemuseum__org> by March 2, 2007. Nancie Ravenel Objects Conservator Shelburne Museum 5555 Shelburne Rd. Shelburne, VT 05482 802-985-3348 ext: 3354 *** Conservation DistList Instance 20:36 Distributed: Saturday, January 27, 2007 Message Id: cdl-20-36-021 ***Received on Friday, 19 January, 2007