23rd annual Scrimshaw Weekend
New Bedford Whaling Museum • 11-12-13 May 2012
All sessions, meals, and other events are held in the Cook Memorial Theater and the Jacobs Family Gallery,immediately adjacent to the main entrance and Visitor Reception Desk. Museum galleries are open daily to all registrants. Please wear your name badge, which identifies you as a VIP.
Friday, May 11th
12:00 - 5:00Marine Antiques Showand Scrimshaw Shops (swap meet) — Jacobs Family Gallery
6:00 - 8:00VIP Scrimshaw Exhibition Preview/Book Launch/Cocktail Reception—Dutch Gallery
Saturday, May 12th
9:00 AMRegistration and Scrimshaw Registration opens — Coffee and pastries — Jacobs
10:00Welcome and Opening Remarks — James Russell, President — Cook Memorial Theater
10:15William Sizer, Scrimshaw Artist: A Comprehensive Review—John Miklos (Chicago)
11:00The Latest Scrimshavological Forensic Analysis of the Anonymous and Mysterious Mantelpiece Maker — Donald C. Boger, M.D. (Los Angeles)
11:45Remarks on Scrimshaw — Captain Thomas Conley (Chicago), in his PowerPoint debut
12:15PMBuffet Lunch — Jacobs Family Gallery
1:30Scrimshaw: The Artist’s Eye — Ryan Cooper, scrimshaw artist (Cape Cod)
2:15Market Report — Andrew Jacobson (Ipswich, Massachusetts)
3:00Coffee Break
3:30The California Penal Code and the California Crackdown— James Vaccarino, J.D., Scrimshaw Forensics® team (presented in absentia)
Panel on the California Crackdown — Hon. Paul E. Vardeman, J.D. (Kansas City), Ken Brown (San Francisco), Rod Cardoza (San Diego), Chuck DeLuca (York, Maine andSan Rafael, California),Andrew Jacobson (Ipswich, Massachusetts), Stuart M. Frank, Ph.D. (Moderator).
5:00Discussion
5:30Cash Bar — Jacobs Family Gallery
7:00Banquet (includes wine with dinner) — Jacobs Family Gallery
8:30Keynote: Matchmaking — Jack H.T. Chang, M.D. (Denver) — Cook Memorial Theater
Sunday, May 13th
9:30AMCoffee and pastries — Scrimshaw Retrieval opens — Jacobs Family Gallery
10:30Salute to Don Ridley: Scrimshaw Fakes, Dangerous and Not So Dangerous — StuartM. Frank, Ph.D. (New Bedford) — Cook Memorial Theater
11:15Field Trip to “Seven Continents, Seven Seas”— Stuart Frank — Wattles Gallery
Lunch on your own
2:00PMExhibition Opening and Book Launch: Ingenious Contrivances, Curiously Carved: Scrimshaw in the New Bedford Whaling Museum by Stuart M. Frank, photographed byRichard Donnelly, designed by Sara Eisenman, published by David R. Godine.
THANKS!
The Museum is grateful to Ronald Bourgeault and Northeast Auctions (Portsmouth, New Hampshire), and to Clayton Pennington and The Maine Antique Digest, for generously helping — again this year — to make the Scrimshaw Weekend possible;
to the vendors who cheerfully rented space for our third annual Marine Antiques Show;
and to the Volunteers who helped deploy, fabricate, and install the Scrimshaw Exhibition: Richard Donnelly, Michael Gerstein, Vasant Gideon, Judith Navas Lund, Barbara Moss, Sanford Moss, Catherine Reynolds, James Vaccarino, and John Antones (Apprentice).
We are of course profoundly grateful to the sponsors, benefactors, and subscribers whose interest and support enabled us to produce the new catalogue of our scrimshaw collection, Ingenious Contrivances, Curiously Carved. They are named in The Book and inscribed in our good graces forever.