Crating 101 - Online Only
Includes Multiple Live Events. The next is on 04/30/2025 at 1:00 PM (EDT)
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Register
- Non-member - $120
- Member - $120
Online, April 30 and May 7 at 1-4:30pm ET
Coordinator: JP Brown
Art in Transit 2.0 is delighted to announce a joint PACCIN/AIC workshop focused on the theory and practice of crating museum collections for transport. This 2-part webinar series is meant for emerging preparators, as well as registrars, conservators and museum professionals who would like to gain practical experience with packing. The workshop comprises two online sessions that will take place before an optional in-person component at the pre-session of the AIC Annual Meeting.
Register here if you wish to only participate in the online workshop sessions. If you wish to participate in the in-person workshop as well, you must register through the AIC Annual Meeting (which includes registration to both the online and in-person components of the workshop. Find more information about that here.
The first online session will cover damage from vibration and shock during road and air transit and strategies for preventing and minimizing short- and long-term damage, by calculating and designing appropriate padding strategies. This session will be led by Bob White and Dale Kronkright.
The second online session will focus on probable risks and practical approaches to packing and crating for transit. This session will be led by Chris Barber, JP Flick, Mark Wamaling, and T Ashley McGrew.
The live online sessions will take place in Zoom and automated captions will be available. The sessions will be recorded and the recordings will be available to registrants.
This workshop is supported in part by the Foundation for Advancement in Conservation (FAIC) Endowment for Professional Development, which was created by a grant from The Mellon Foundation and is supported by donations from members of the American Institute for Conservation (AIC) and its friends. Workshops are made possible with the assistance of many AIC members, but no AIC membership dues were used to create or present this course.
FAIC relies on your contributions to support these and its many other programs. Learn more about donating to the foundation.
Chris Barber
Chris Barber has been a collections care professional in the commercial sector since 2002. In addition to his operational contributions to best practices in packing and crating are comprehensive proprietary IT tools for guided crate design and problem-solving with predictive models for MRP, labor, carbon, cushioning, and related data management. More recently he has also supported operations through process improvement, systems design, global standardization, training, and governance in storage, project management, and crating. In 2023 he collaborated with STiCH to build ICEFAT’s carbon calculator for crates. Chris volunteers with the AIC Materials Working Group and serves as Publications Chair for PACCIN.
Dale Kronkright
Dale Kronkright is Head of Conservation at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Dale has been gathering vibration, shock and climatic data for the museum’s collections in travelling exhibitions and loans since 2011. In 2016, Dale began working with co-author Vikrant Palan and Polytec Inc. to study the natural frequencies of the museum’s paintings using laser Doppler vibrometry. In 2021, Dale began working with co-author Robert White at White Noise LLC to test a reusable art transport system that attenuates all vibration impulses above 6 Hz. This year they successfully achieved that engineering goal! He is extremely excited about this achievement. Dale co-authored three vibration attenuation and damping patents related to art in transit.
T. Ashley McGrew
T. Ashley McGrew is PACCIN’s longest continually serving volunteer, starting in 2003 when he was invited to join the steering committee. As the first subcommittee chair for the Preparation, Art Handling and Collections Care Network, he was educated by professional peers while managing Publications which meant moderating the Website, Forum and Listserv from 2008 to 2017. He is currently a member of two PACCIN subcommittees and is the organization liaison to the American Institute for Conservation.
Mark Wamaling
Course Coordinator
Mark Wamaling has been an advocate for the collection care professions throughout his many years of staff training at Artex Fine Art Services and as a contributor to workshops, webinars and museum conferences around the country. He has over twenty-five years of experience in art handling, packing, and crating design for museum exhibitions as well as large collection relocations. In 2014 he became Chair of the Preparation, Art handling, Collections Care Information Network (PACCIN) and has been involved in organizing workshops and training for the collections care community.
Bob White
Bob White is a Ph.D. noise, vibration, and modal analysis (NVH) engineer and owns White Noise LLC, a NVH and dynamics testing service in Waterloo Iowa. Bob was the Senior NVH Test Engineer for John Deere for 31 years where he authored six patents related to vibration and power transmission testing and engineering.
