Conservation at the CMA
Leadership Circle
- Special Event
- Members
Photo courtesy of McKinley Wiley, The Dark Room Company
About The Event
Join all current supporters at $5,000 or higher for a talk with Sarah Scaturro, who joined the museum in April 2020 as the Eric and Jane Nord Chief Conservator, to learn about her role at the museum and the CMA’s conservation lab. You will also hear about the exhibition Cycles of Life: The Four Seasons Tapestries, which offers visitors an in-depth look at a rare, complete set of tapestries in the museum’s collection that has not been displayed since 1953, due to their fragile condition. They were recently cleaned and conserved by tapestry specialists in Belgium, made possible through principal support by the late Emma Lincoln. After the talk, enjoy a cocktail reception and visit the paintings and objects conservation labs.
Leadership Circle members and annual supporters at $5,000+ will receive a digital invitation.
The Cleveland Museum of Art’s Leadership Circle is a devoted community of friends who make the museum a priority in their annual philanthropic giving. With gratitude for this generous support, the museum provides Leadership Circle donors with unique opportunities that enhance enjoyment of the CMA through engagement with our collections, curators, and staff. For more information about the Leadership Circle program, and to become a member, click here.
Art historical research for this exhibition was a collaboration with Case Western Reserve University graduate students in the museum's joint art history graduate program.
Generous support is provided by the Thompson Family Foundation.
All exhibitions at the Cleveland Museum of Art are underwritten by the CMA Fund for Exhibitions. Generous annual support is provided by an anonymous supporter, Dick Blum* and Harriet Warm, Dr. Ben H. and Julia Brouhard, Mr. and Mrs. Walter R. Chapman Jr., the Jeffery Wallace Ellis Trust in memory of Lloyd H. Ellis Jr., Leigh and Andy Fabens, Michael Frank in memory of Patricia Snyder, the Sam J. Frankino Foundation, Janice Hammond and Edward Hemmelgarn, Eva and Rudolf Linnebach, William S. and Margaret F. Lipscomb, Tim O’Brien and Breck Platner, Anne H. Weil, and the Womens Council of the Cleveland Museum of Art.
The conservation of the Four Seasons tapestries was made possible with support from Emma Lincoln.*
*Deceased