Art Gallery of Alberta Collections Manager and Curatorial Associate Danielle takes us on a behind the scenes tour of the AGA Collection storage. Watch to see how we store paintings, works on paper and sculpture from our collection of over 6,000 objects.Art Gallery of Alberta Collections Manager and Curatorial Associate Danielle takes us on a behind the scenes tour of the AGA Collection storage. Watch to see how we store paintings, works on paper and sculpture from our collection of over 6,000 objects. …
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oh hi everyone my name is Danielle and
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I’m a collections manager and curatorial
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associate of art gallery Alberta
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recently someone asked one of our
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followers asked about our art storage
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and I’m going to tell you a little bit
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about that today so here at the aga we
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have six vaults in our collection each
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one stores a different type of artwork
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and they’re each humidity and climate
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controlled and temperature controlled
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depending on the type of art that’s in
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there
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so in our painting vaults all the
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paintings are stored on removable
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storage racks so these prioritized space
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and they make the works easily
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accessible for any collections
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maintenance we have two types of storage
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racks one move in and out and the other
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move back and forth and on one of these
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ones we have stored our largest painting
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collection it’s by kenneth noland and it
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measures over two hundred and sixty
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inches
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all of our works on paper are stored in
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these boxes which are called saw in
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their cases and they’re stored unframed
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to conserve space
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so this is one of our sculpture vaults
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here we store all the sculptures and
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open stores you can see them right on
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the shelves
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this is called a hyperthermic graph and
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it is a way we track the temperature and
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the humidity in each vault as I
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mentioned earlier each type of our
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artwork has its own setting
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so photography for example is usually in
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a cooler vault and we have separate
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vaults or organic materials and for
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metals
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and if you have any other questions
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about how we store our art works or
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about the collection in general please
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email us or comment on one of our social
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media
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