RE: [padg] stained glass restoration

["Berenholz, Robin" <rberenholz@xxxxxxxxx>]

Lisa,

You may want to contact the Midwest Art Conservation Center (MACC, formerly called the Upper Midwest Conservation Association). MACC provides a full range of professional conservation services and is a member of the Regional Alliance for Preservation (RAP). Contact information and information about their services can be found on the RAP website at www.preservecollections.org.

Best of luck,

Robin Berenholz
Education Program Manager
Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts
264 South 23rd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Phone: 215.545.0613
Fax: 215.735.9313
E-Mail: rberenholz@xxxxxxxxx 
www.ccaha.org


-----Original Message-----
From: Fox, Lisa [mailto:lisa.fox@xxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 9:27 AM
To: padg@xxxxxxx; consdist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [padg] stained glass restoration

Dear colleagues, I am posing this query in my personal rather than professional capacity.  My parish has allocated money for a significant project to restore our stained-glass windows.  We have discovered that some of the lead is deteriorating, and the wood around some of the windows is rotting. We also plan to replace the deteriorating, yellowed Lexan (?) with a newer protective covering. 

We are marooned here in the Midwest, where conservators aren't exactly plentiful.  So far, we have identified only one stained-glass studio that might do the work: Bovard Studios. 

I would appreciate knowing whether any of you are familiar with that studio and can comment on their conservation qualifications.  I would also invite any of you who have expertise in this field -- or who know of other qualified conservators who work in Missouri -- to contact me offline.  I would like to have more bids on this job. 

If my parish were exploring conservation of its paper and photograph collections, I would know how to evaluate the potential vendors.  But, when it comes to stained-glass conservation/restoration, I am at a complete loss. 

Thanks for any assistance you can provide. 

Lisa 

Lisa L. Fox
Grace Episcopal Church (& Missouri State Archives)
Jefferson City, MO