Hello Jim

 

The Edmonton Arts Council’s conservation team is currently conducting a full restoration of a 50-year old mural that was painted onto a cement wall in our downtown library. The library has been gutted and is undergoing a rebuild, so it was a case of try to remove the wall or see the mural destroyed.

 

Here are two articles from the Edmonton Arts Council blog that detail the process. It’s a multiyear project.

 

 

I hope to generate a third short article once all the panels are clean and mounted to their temporary support system (for easier storage). We won’t have a conclusion to this story until 2020 or so, when the mural is reinstalled, the tissue paper facing removed, and surface restoration completed.

 

Our Public Art & Conservation Director David Turnbull would be able to fill in more details – dturnbull@edmontonarts.ca

 

Thanks

Eva Marie

 

Eva Marie Clarke

Communications Officer

edmonton arts council

p: 780.424.2787 ext 235

edmontonarts.ca

 

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On May 17, 2018, at 10:49 AM, Jim Glenn <jglenn@utah.gov> wrote:

Dear Colleagues:

 

Has anyone been involved with or know of a project the involved the removal of a cinder block wall on which a mural is painted directly and the wall and mural were reassembled and restored in another location?

 

Thanks very much for any leads.

 

Respectfully,

 

Jim

 


Jim Glenn

Utah Division of Arts & Museums

Manager - Collections, Design, Visual and Public Art 

Office 801-245 7271 - Mobile 801-808-4557

 

 

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