Art Collections Management, Summer 2024
Fine Arts Preservation Society of New Orleans
Explore and practice tasks and systems related to maintaining, presenting, preserving, documenting, and analyzing an art collection.
This course is ideal for college, mature high school students, or anyone interested in the administrative side of preparatory and curatorial studies.
This series of one-week seminars is designed to prepare a student for further scholarship with museum and/or gallery work. Sign up for one week or all four. Certificate of course completion available upon finish.
Skills that will be addressed, learned and practiced include:
- cataloguing artwork
- documenting and interviewing artists about their work, creating transcriptions of interviews.
- learn about collection management database and software.
- condition reporting of artwork
- packing, archiving, and storing artwork.
About the Instructor:
Saskia Ozols founded the Fine Arts Preservation Society of New Orleans in 2020 and currently leads archiving projects and classes related to the visual arts in New Orleans.
She holds an MFA from the oldest museum school in the country where she trained, studied, and taught museum education with the highest available awards offered by the Museum.
Saskia worked in art conservation for 5 years, as an independent curator and arts writer for 20 years, and as gallery director and adjunct professor at institutions including Boston University, Loyola University, and Tulane University.
For specific information and more details on Saskia’s work, educational background, and influences please visit https://www.saskiaozols.com/about/
