We spoke to the Dean, who was in favor of finding a grant for us to begin work. We asked sculptor instructor Alex Hromych for his technical advise and he came in once a week for the first summer to help us get started.
The following are just a few of the sculptures we restored during 1979-1984. They should give you an idea of how we went about the process. Please note that we "restored" these plasters and didn't "conserve" them. The grant wasn't sufficiant to do the latter. For example, we used real plaster on most all the repairs, while a conservator may have used a reversable poly-plaster material. In the end our goal was to restore the most damaged works first and remount them to the walls of the Academy so the students could once again appreciate them.
Remodeling the sculptured forms
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