This intensive 5-day programme is designed for emerging professional and career conservators. Along with the course material, participants enrolled to attend in person will receive a set of MCP concentrates (valued at £270.00) to begin using the MCP program in their own practice. Places are limited to 25 in person participants and 15 Zoom session participants. The Zoom session is only for past participants of this programme interested in refreshing their knowledge.
Participants will gain insight into the cleaning of painted surfaces and develop the range of variations offered by the MCP. The theory of these processes will be covered during morning lectures, the afternoon sessions will allow participants to be directly involved in the preparation and testing of the MCP programme. By the end of the course participants will have gained an understanding of the MCP computer database, to anticipate various changes in materials and their effect on the cleaning solution and how this chemistry relates to the system.
Chris Stavroudis is a private paintings conservator based in California. He developed the Modular Cleaning Program in 2002 as an off shoot of the work of Richard Wolbers and the Gels Cleaning Project at the Getty Conservation Institute. Chris has presented over 66 in-person MCP workshops worldwide and continues to work with GCI on the cleaning of oriental lacquer and gilded wood surfaces.
