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Uncovering stories in Rural Life's barn walls: LSU duo is preserving Steele Burden's sketches
- Conservation work at LSU Rural Life Museum seeks to preserve Steele Burden’s barn sketches from the museum walls.
- Dauterive and Ashburn began the project in August to determine the medium and preservation method for the drawings.
- The project tests solvents and uses bamboo swabs to re-solubilize materials without harming the drawings.
- The drawings were created on vinyl attached to insulation, complicating preservation efforts.
- Museum staff plan a refurbish to better protect the Windrush-era drawings for future study.
- Ashburn notes the class uses non-permanent objects from the Rural Life ephemeral collection for hands-on study.
- Dauterive aims to publish a guide to streamline future preservation of similar drawings.
- The project documents Steele Burden’s life and Windrush Plantation history as part of Louisiana rural heritage.
- "Steele Burden was a storyteller," said Katherine Fresina, the museum's curator, highlighting his aim to share stories through art.
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