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CCMC's Marcelle Scott awarded for outstanding leadership
Malaysian Ministry of Culture, Arts & Heritage visit to CCMC
Art meets science at CCMC graduation celebration
New course in photographic conservation in 2007
CCMC conservators bring window to new life
CCMC welcomes new conservators
CCMC graduate wins AICCIM award
CCMC's Marcelle Scott awarded for outstanding leadership
CCMC Academic Programs Coordinator, Marcelle Scott, has received national recognition for her outstanding leadership in conservation education. At an awards ceremony in August, hosted by the Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education.
These national awards recognise and reward the diverse contributions that individuals and teams make to the quality of student learning. Citations are awarded to people who have made a significant contribution to student learning in a specific area of responsibility, over a sustained period, who are widely recognised for their achievements within the nominating institution, and who have received strong institutional endorsement. Nominations are encouraged from academic staff, general staff, sessional staff and institutional associates.
Marcelle received a 'Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning'. The citation reads: "For innovation in the development of an industry focussed, internationally relevant curriculum in the interdisciplinary field of Materials Conservation, that engages and stimulates student learning."
Further information: Read Education Minister Julie Bishop's Press release.
Malaysian Ministry of Culture, Arts & Heritage visit to CCMC
The Honourable Minister
Datuk Seri Utama Dr Rais Yatim,
Datin Seri Utama,
and Associate Professor Robyn Sloggett.
The Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation (CCMC) had the pleasure of welcoming the Honourable Minister Datuk Seri Utama, Dr Rais Yatim and a delegation from his Ministry of Culture, Arts and Heritage on Thursday 3rd May 2007. Datuk Seri Utama and his delegation visited the off site treatment facilities of CCMC based at the Public Records Office of Victoria in North Melbourne.
Since 1996, Malaysia’s Ministry of Culture, Arts and Heritage has been one of CCMC’s most important partners.
Art meets science at CCMC graduation celebration
Associate Professor Robyn Sloggett
and Professor Carl Schiesser
On Wednesday March 14th 2007, the Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation hosted a celebration for the cohort of 2006 Masters graduates. Professor Carl Schiesser, Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Free Radical Chemistry and Biotechnology, gave an address to the graduates and guests.
"Your future prospects are bright. Graduates have found positions in the Australian War Memorial, NGV, State Library of Victoria, National Archives, Artlab Australia, International Conservation Services, Te Papa in Wellington."
New course in photographic conservation in 2007
Every State and National library, archive, museum and gallery in Australia collects photographs - these collectively number in the tens of millions and cover the full 150 years of the history of photography. They vary greatly in their condition and preservation needs - due to the varying types of photographic processes and materials that have been used - and yet there are only a small number of specialist conservators in Australia and world wide who are skilled in this area of conservation. In fact, there are currently only two conservators in Australia specifically employed to work with photographic collections.
The CCMC is offering a new course, a Postgraduate Certificate in Photographic Conservation, to address this skills gap.
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Objects Conservator Holly Jones-Amin with the Kernot Window.
Photo: Paul Richiardi
CCMC conservators bring window to new life
A prized stained glass window surviving from the long demolished Italianate Parkville villa Firenze, built in 1880 by the University of Melbourne’s first Professor of Engineering, Professor William Charles Kernot, is to appear again, after conservation, in the Old Engineering Building, just outside the rooms Professor Kernot once used for his office and lectures.
Conservation on the window has been carried out in the Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation by Senior Objects Conservator Holly Jones-Amin and colleagues Jordi Casasayas and Raaf Ishak.
Read the UniNews article
CCMC welcomes new conservators
The Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation is pleased to welcome two new conservators to its team.
Catherine Nunn joins CCMC as a paintings conservator after a stint in the UK working at the University of Cambridge and as a freelance conservator, and with professional experience in Australia and New Zealand at institutes such as National Gallery of Victoria, Artlab Australia, and the Auckland Art Gallery.
Thea Peacock joins the Centre as textiles conservator. She has international experience in conservation at the British Museum and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London and the Museum of History in Hong Kong, and has a strong research background.
Marika Kocsis, winner of the AICCM Student
Conservator of the Year Award
CCMC graduate wins AICCIM award
Marika Kocsis, alumnus of the first student cohort to graduate from the CCMC Masters course in 2005, has won the AICCM 2006 Student Conservator of the Year Award.
Marika found the collegial atmosphere at the Centre an integral part of her success, with the teachers and lecturers supportive and easy to contact, and a great rapport between the students. Academic Programs Coordinator and Dean's Teaching Award Winner, Marcelle Scott, was a wonderful teacher and a great source of advice and support.
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