Expanding Care and Access to the Art & Heritage Collections at Saint Vincent

FAIN: PG-266745-19

St. Vincent College (Latrobe, PA 15650-2690)
Andrew Julo (Project Director: January 2019 to January 2022)

Expert consultation for rehousing and moving a collection of over 4,000 art objects into a climate-controlled storage space as well as the curator’s attendance at a disaster planning workshop. The collection includes European paintings, old master and modern prints, and work relating to the Covington Altar Stock Building Company. It is used regularly in teaching, for outside loans, and in exhibitions that are open to the public.

The Saint Vincent Gallery will engage a preservation consultant for an on-site visit to advise on best practices for rehousing the Art & Heritage Collections' paintings, works on paper, ceramic murals, and other objects in a new, expanded space. The Gallery will purchase durable preservation and storage materials and environmental monitors that correspond to the consultant's recommendations and the Collections' previous Conservation Assessment Program (CAP) Report. The Gallery Curator will attend a disaster response and recovery planning workshop. The Collections' 17th, 18th, and 19th century works reflect the relationship between a European monarch and the German immigrants served by America's first Benedictine community. These and many other works in the Collections enrich humanities courses and public programming in myriad ways. Improved storage and monitoring will increase access to the Collections and help to preserve them. The project period is 9/1/2019-9/30/2020 (13 months).