Project Components

Component One:
Three-Band Filtered Light Source—Thin-Film Multi-Coatings
This component involves investigating the feasibility of a single multi-coated filter, designed to complement a range of reflectance spectra for a representative series of old master drawings.

Component Two:
Three-Band Filtered Light Source—Solid Glass Filter Packages
This component involves investigating the utility of off-the-shelf solid glass filters to achieve a three-band-type filtered light source that can be assembled as a generic filter pack for lower-cost applications.

Component Three:
Protective Effects of Anoxic Enclosures
This component examines the benefits of oxygen-free atmospheres on a large group of diverse colored materials held under constant temperature and relative humidity. It will also explore practical low-cost anoxic housing designs.

Component Four:
Visitor Assessment Studies
This component involves constructing an experimental lighting facility (ELF) to test display aesthetics and visual performance for the filtered light sources described under components one and two.

Component Five:
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico - Demonstration Project
Drawing heavily from project components one and four, this component involves creating filters for existing track lighting at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. This work, begun during summer 2008, will be coupled with direct object light sensitivity assessment using the microfader, designed by Paul Whitmore at Carnegie Mellon University, on selected artifacts in the collection, as well as on most of O'Keeffe's surviving sticks of pastels.

Last updated: July 2008