Tag: The Curator’s View
Monday, January 21, 2013
The Curator’s View: Care and Conservation of Art
This post is from the desk of Linda Jansma, Senior Curator. The Robert McLaughlin Gallery is a member of the Canadian Museum Association and adheres to their ethical guidelines. Those guidelines include the following paragraph about collections: Museum collections consist of natural or cultural (i.e. manmade) objects and intellectual property directly owned by the museum,…
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Thursday, August 30, 2012
Sharing Our History: Augmenting the Thomas Bouckley Collection
The Curator's View this week comes from the desk of Sonya Jones, Assistant Curator, and Curator of the Thomas Bouckley Collection. Thomas Bouckley’s fascination with his father’s collection of historical photographs of Oshawainspired his passion for documenting Oshawa’s past. He was concerned with the condition of the historical photographs, and took it upon himself to learn how…
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Friday, July 27, 2012
The Curator’s View: Holidays
This post comes from the desk of Linda Jansma, Curator Mt. Chocohura, NH Some of my holidays are purposefully full of art. This past March’s trip to New York City and last summer’s long weekend in Chicago are two examples of such trips. Plans are made according to the opening hours of museums and galleries…
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The Curator’s View: Maralynn Cherry’s Retirement Farewell
From the desk of Linda Jansma, Curator. Hospitality It’s a word that Maralynn Cherry brought up different times in her talk at Bowmanville’s Visual Art Centre last Friday evening. The context was Maralynn’s farewell fête as she is retiring from her position as the art centre’s Curator. I felt privileged to be one of some…
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The Curator’s View: COHCA & OSNAP Meet at the RMG
From the desk of Linda Jansma, our curator. We had a great day at the RMG on April 2nd. We were hosting COCHA, as well as the newest members of OSNAP. You may be thinking: “what the heck?” Two seemingly disparate groups like COCHA and OSNAP meeting on the same day, and, for half that…
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The Curator’s View: Thomas Bouckley Collection: Oshawa Then and Now
Sonya Jones is the Curator of The Thomas Bouckley Collection. In looking at Oshawa through a “Then and Now” lens, it really puts into perspective how much Oshawa has changed in the last 100 or so years. The city continues to grow and seems to always be in transition. Consider, for example, UOIT’s continued expansion…
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