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I'm Silvia Manrique, Director of Collections at The Wolfsonian–FIU in Miami Beach. We're planning a resonator guitar exhibition and would appreciate the group's input on a specific mounting challenge.

The exhibition will include guitars displayed three ways: wall-mounted (both vertical and horizontal orientations), in free-standing cases, and -the pieces I'm seeking guidance on- guitars mounted against clear acrylic panels and viewable from both front and back. Most of the guitars in this last category will be oriented vertically, and I'm picturing something along the lines of a two-pronged cradle/saddle, similar to commercial guitar-stand mounts, but built to museum standards and as unobtrusive as possible.

A few questions for the group:

1. Do you have examples of clip or mount designs for this kind of dual-sided viewing that are minimally visible/unobtrusive?

2. What's the preferred method for attaching a mount to an acrylic panel for an object this size and…

Hey all, we have a couple of situations for displaying coins that we're trying to figure out and I wanted to see if anyone had any experience with something similar. At the moment we are hoping to display both sides with the coins sandwiched between acrylic. In one setting they would be static and shown vertically in the center of a case structure. In the other it would essentially be a flipable page that visitors could flip back and forth to view each side. The basic idea we were considering was just a sheet with the coins profile cut out and then a layer of acrylic on the front and back, but the two things we're concerned about and haven't come up with a proper solution to is then how do we secure this stack of acrylic so it can't be tampered with easily, but can be accessed by the prep…

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I'm teaching again in Brooklyn in August. All levels of students are welcome to join, but silver soldering experience is a prerequisite. Returning students can sign up to skip the introductory lecture portion. For those of you traveling from out of town, there would be time Friday night to visit a museum open late. Contact the studio or me jodyhanson@verizon.net if you have any questions.

Jody

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We know you’ve been meaning to get that submission together, and now you have a little more time!

We are looking forward to hearing about all your Back to Basics, Outside the Box ideas, projects, materials, solutions, stories, and tools – so please get them to us by this Friday, May 15^th! Remember – the conference is only as good as what our community chooses to share, so help make this conference as good as San Francisco sourdough!

In case you haven’t already heard - The 10^th biennial International Mountmakers Forum conference will be held in San Francisco on November 3-5, 2026, hosted by the Asian Art Museum.

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We know you’ve been meaning to get that submission together, and now is the time!

We are looking forward to hearing about all your Back to Basics, Outside the Box ideas, projects, materials, solutions, stories, and tools – so please get them to us by this Friday, May 15^th! Remember – the conference is only as good as what our community chooses to share, so help make this conference as good as San Francisco sourdough!

In case you haven’t already heard - The 10^th biennial International Mountmakers Forum conference will be held in San Francisco on November 3-5, 2026, hosted by the Asian Art Museum.

Is anyone interested in participating in a panel discussion at the next IMF conference to talk about their experience with covering their freelance work? Are you an LLC, an S Corp, a sole proprietor, under another entity's insurance umbella, etc ? I'm considering building out an abstract on this topic if other mountmakers can participate and share. The abstract deadline is soon and this would be for a 30 min panel discussion. If interested, please email me jodyhanson@verizon.net

Thanks,

Jody

Hello everyone! I’m currently working on a museum project where the designer has decided the little numbers are going to go on 5/8 diameter brass pieces they are calling pucks. We are trying to see if these exist anywhere that we could purchase them instead of fabricating ourselves. In the past, we’ve CNC cut small brass tabs that we’ve either called tabs, chips, or chads - approx 1/2”W x 3/8”H x 1/16”D that the number is then affixed to. We do not have a choice about it being a circle or not, nor in the size. I cannot find anything for number labels inside a case except for the acrylic triangles and cubes with numbers on them like this: https://www.universityproducts.com/acrylic-number-blocks.html or this https://www.preservationequipment.com/display-identification-cubes. I checked all the museum supply sites I know of and could find. I don’t think this exists, but someone else thinks they do, hence …

Koestler Arts is looking for a temporary Arts Handling and Documentation Assistant and we'd be grateful if you could share the post with your networks if of interest. I've copied below the advert and attached is the job pack and the application form. The closing date is next Wednesday 6 May and more info is here: https://koestlerarts.org.uk/about-us/jobs-volunteering/jobs/

We are looking for someone with great attention to detail and art handling experience to join the busy Koestler Arts Team for 3 months as we process thousands of artworks from prisons and secure units that have been entered into the annual Koestler Awards. This role will assist with art handling and collection management to help process over 7,000 artworks ready for judging in July and August.

You will unwrap, handle and label multiple artworks every day, some of which are made from unusual materials such as matchsticks, bread and soap, as well…