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Bronze Seminar Exercises: Click on any photo to see it in greater detail
FIELD EXERCISES : 1ST WEEK
St. Marks Church in the Bouwerie
Manhattan, New York City
Participants clean Stuyvesant sculpture in its first conservation treatment
First-year participants adjust patina color on Stuyvesant sculpture
A participant surveys Stuyvesant sculpture
Group surveys Stuyvesant sculpture
John Scott demonstrates a cleaning procedure
A participant practices heated surface waxing
Participants clean Tompkins sculpture
Particpants apply wax to Tompkins sculpture
FIELD EXERCISES : 2ND WEEK
Queens, New York City
Participants erect scaffold around Soldiers and Sailors Monument
Participants work from scaffold
Participant removes weathered, soiled wax
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Participants surveying Butler's sculpture,
The
Bride
Participant waxing
Thermopylae
sculpture by Hadzi
Participant blasting weathered patina of
Forrestal
portrait with pressurized water
John Scott demonstrates patination with
Forrestal
.
Participant adjusting patina color on
Dean West
bronze with pigmented lacquer
Photos by John Scott, NYCF, Joanna Barr, Artlab Australia, or Caren Dissinger