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Meet the Staff: Rob Hay, Head of Exhibition Services

November 28, 2016 - Marissa Kessenich

Rob during installation of the spring 2016 exhibition Look Inside: New Photography Acquistions.

Meet the Staff is a Q&A series on Cultural Compass that highlights the work, experience, and lives of staff at the Harry Ransom Center.

Rob Hay has been at the Harry Ransom Center for two and a half years. He worked as a preparator before taking on his current position as head of exhibition services. [Read more…] about Meet the Staff: Rob Hay, Head of Exhibition Services

Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Meet the Staff Tagged With: Art, artist, Conservation, Exhibitions, gallery, Loans, Meet the Staff, New York City, painting, Rob Hay, Taglialatella Galleries

From Austin to Venice Biennale: 5,614 miles of trucks, planes, and a ferry

June 11, 2015 - Jennifer Tisdale

Loading the Ferry in Venice. Image courtesy of Gabriela Truly, The Blanton Museum of Art

The Harry Ransom Center supports an active program of loans from its collections, balancing the task of preparing and processing materials for loan with its own exhibition program. The loans, which share the Center’s collections with a wider audience, are considered on the basis of their merit and contribution to the humanities.

Last year, more than 135 items were loaned to 16 institutions, placing the Ransom Center’s holdings in context with other collections throughout the U.S. and internationally.

One of the Center’s most recent loans is a nearly complete set of the photographs Walker Evans made for [Read more…] about From Austin to Venice Biennale: 5,614 miles of trucks, planes, and a ferry

Filed Under: Art, Photography Tagged With: Blanton Museum of Art, courier, Exhibitions, Gabriela Truly, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Loans, Okwui Enwezor, University of Texas at Austin, Venice Biennale, Walker Evans

Meet the Staff: Ken Grant, Exhibition Conservator and Head of Exhibition Services

March 3, 2015 - Marlene Renz

Ken Grant inspects lighting for Frida Kahlo’s “Self-portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird.” Photo by Pete Smith.

Meet the Staff is a Q&A series on Cultural Compass that highlights the work, experience, and lives of staff at the Harry Ransom Center. Ken Grant received a Bachelor of Science in Geology from the University of Iowa and then worked as a logging geologist in the oil field for six years. In 1992 he started at the State University of New York College at Buffalo where he later received his Master of Arts in Paper Conservation. He joined the Ransom Center in 1997 and has worked as Assistant Paper Conservator and Paper Conservator, but he now serves as Exhibitions Conservator and Head of Exhibition Services.

[Read more…] about Meet the Staff: Ken Grant, Exhibition Conservator and Head of Exhibition Services

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