BASIC MOUNTMAKING TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES

2021: The Broad. 2021. The DAP (Diversity Apprenticeship Program) Toolbox. Excellent website and pdf guide for art handling basics or for developing an apprenticeship program.

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2020: Erika Johnson and Jen Simons, Brigid Mountmaking. 2020. What Your Mountmaking Mama Never Told You. YouTube video presented at the 7th International Mountmakers Forum (IMF2020) virtual conference.

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2016: Philip Brutz. 2016. Mount Making 101: How to Make a Threaded Anchor for Mounting Artifacts. YouTube video of a paper presented at the IMF 5th Biennial Conference, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH USA.

 

2016: Jamie Hascall. 2016. Mountmaking: Materials Selection for Object Safety and Practicality. YouTube video of a paper presented at the IMF 5th Biennial Conference, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH USA.

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2014: McKenzie Lowry. 2014.  Mountmaking as Preventative Conservation. YouTube video of a paper presented at the IMF 4th Biennial Conference, New Mexico History Museum, Santa Fe, NM USA.

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2013: Jamie Hascall. 2013. “Receiver Systems for Object Mounts: A Design Concept for Safe Installation and Display Flexibility.” Journal of the American Institute for Conservation 51 (1): 47-50.

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2014: BJ Farrar. 2014.  Template Techniques for Mountmaking. YouTube video of a paper presented at the IMF 4th Biennial Conference, New Mexico History Museum, Santa Fe, NM USA.

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2014: Vincent Avalos. 2014.  Physics of Mountmaking.  Poster presented at the IMF 4th Biennial Conference, New Mexico History Museum, Santa Fe, NM USA.

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2011: Jennifer Chin. 2011. Hot Connections Jewelry: The Complete Sourcebook of Soldering Techniques. 

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2010: Tim McCreight. 2010. The Complete Metalsmith series. Joining and Soldering video. YouTube video. Highly recommend anything from him!

 

2005: McCreight, Tim. 2005. The Complete Metalsmith.

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2002: Barclay, Robert, André Bergeron, and Carole Dignard. 2002. Mountmaking for Museum Objects, 2nd ed.