RMAC’s latest restoration project LOCAL
Roswell Daily Record
Thursday, May 29, 2014
BY KENNA ARGANBRIGHT MUSEUM REGISTRAR
When the RMAC opened in 1937 it was called the Roswell Museum and Federal Art Center. The museum was beautifully furnished and decorated with Hispano art through the Federal Art Project. At that time the craftsmen who completed the work received little recognition for their artwork and eventually as the Museum grew and was renovated much of the work created for the original building disappeared. It was either given away or thrown out. Thankfully some of the works remained in the Museum’s care, such as the traditional Spanish Colonial furniture carved by Domingo Tejada. There is also tin work designed and created by Ildeberto “Eddie” Delgado. The three chandeliers in
the Founders Gallery were made for the original Museum by Eddie Delgado and have been lighting the gallery ever since. Recently, however, some of the solder points began separating so two of the chandeliers had to be taken down. Two tin artists in Albuquerque, Drew Coduti and Kevin Burgess de Chávez with B.C. Designs,
are now working on restoring them using original photographs and records of the pieces. These tin artists who were part of the 2013 Invitational will be conserving one at a time. They will resolder, rewire and clean the chandeliers without changing the original patina. The tin will be rebent into place. A support ring
around the works, which was recently determined to not be original, will be removed. Inter nal supports will be added to reinforce the new solder points. It will be wonderful to see them restored to their original beauty. According to the book “Sin Nombre: Hispana and Hispano Artists of the New Deal Era by Tey Marianna
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name plates for the four sculpture busts as well as plates for the ladies’ and gentlemen’s lounges. The ladies’ lounge contained two tin sconces, a picture hand-painted with a flower design on glass in a tin frame, a central lighting fixture and two tin tie-backs for the curtains. We need to track down these treasures which we believe to still be in the community. If you could provide any information on these pieces please contact me at kenna @roswellmuseum.org.
Nunn, Eddie Delgado took after his father Francisco Delgado and became a tin artist creating numerous WPA works. Like the chandeliers in the Roswell Museum, other examples of his work are still in use at the Albuquerque Little Theater, the National Park Service building in Santa Fe and the Officer’s Club at Cannon Air Force Base. We would love to know the whereabouts of the original tin work and other decorations that used to adorn the museum. The original office contained a three-light chandelier, a 4-sided 12” high tin lanter n and a round sconce with a rooster and star border. The stage in the main gallery had a tin lighting fixture arranged to flood the back of the stage as well as the sides. The foyer contained one tin ceiling fixture and four
The RMAC’s collections represent part of the cultural heritage of Roswell. These works must be preserved and in some cases restored. Kenna Arganbright is registrar of the Roswell Museum and Art Center and is responsible for cataloging and overseeing collections care.
moist soil in your garden at a location that does not receive regular irrigation to determine how deeply the soil was moistened by recent rains. This is a more critical measurement than the actual rainfall since the rate at which the rain fell as well as slope, soil compaction, and other factors deter mines how much water ran of f and how much soaked into the soil. The quantity of water that soaked into the soil in your gardens determines whether or not you should irrigate. This determination is also dependent on the plants in your garden. I recently measured sixtenths of an inch of precipitation in my garden in a three-day period. When digging into the soil, I noticed that in unirrigated areas the soil was moistened to only 3 to 4 inches. In areas that had been irrigated it was moist much more deeply. These irrigated areas can
skip one or more irrigations. Watch the plants and the rate at which the soil dries to determine when you must irrigate again. There is a temptation to wait too long to begin irrigation as a means of conserving water, but when the plants begin to wilt, irrigation must resume. Deeply rooted trees and shrubs should remain on their previous irrigation schedule unless the rains moisten the soil to a depth of 2 to 3 feet, then one or more scheduled irrigations may be skipped. This may happen in areas where rainwater accumulates after running off from other areas of the garden. It is wise to conserve water when possible after significant rains, but it is also important to provide adequate water to your garden. Failure to provide adequate and timely irrigation defeats the purpose of gardening.
How to measure rainfall in New Mexico
Question: It rained in my area recently, but I do not think I received as much rain as reported on the news reports. How can I know how much rain I got and if I still need to irrigate my garden? Answer: Rainfall in New Mexico can be very spotty. Isolated and scattered thunderstorms may be very isolated and very scattered. Some areas may receive much greater amounts of precipitation than locations less than a mile away. There are several online sources of infor mation about precipitation that may be helpful. The National Weather Service, Weather Underground, and numerous other online sources can provide information about precipitation in your area, but the accuracy of that information depends on the distance to the reporting station. The Under Weather ground websites
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managers could rely on it to make wise and proper management decisions,” explains Dan Byfield, CEO of American Stewards of Liberty. In a Ranch Magazine article titled “Verify the Science,” Byfield showed how the IQA can be used to prevent environmental organizations from “manipulating our government and federal statutes to their benefit and the detriment of everyone else.” He worked successfully with eight counties in the Permian Basin to stop the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service from listing the dunes sagebrush lizard as endangered. He states: “What we found was anything but credible science. … and this is true with almost every proposed listing.” Taking the IQA a step further, earlier this year the Institute for Trade Standards and Sustainable Development (ITSSD) filed FOIA requests regarding the science underpinning the EPA’s 2009 greenhouse gas endangerment findings — identifying six greenhouse gasses as posing a risk of endangerment to public health and welfare within the meaning of the Clean Air Act. An ITSSD press release states: “The objective of the FOIA requests has been to secure disclosure of government records substantiating each agency’s compliance with the provisions of the U.S.
(www.wunderground.com) let you look at a map of reporting stations in your area to see if there is one or more near you. If you can find several near you, you can look for patter ns of precipitation and get an even better idea of how much rain fell in your area. Another very useful site with numerous reporting stations is the CoCoRaHS (Community Cooperative Rain, Hail, and Snow) network (www.cocorahs.org). This is a network of volunteer weather reporters in the U.S. and Canada. There may be reporting stations near you from which you Information Quality Act.” ITSSD asserts that, based on its research, the required “peer review science process has likely been compromised on conflict of interest, independence/bias, peer review panel balance, and transparency grounds.” Additionally, the ITSSD press release claims that peer review comments regarding scientific uncertainties were ignored. ITSSD believes that the EPA’s endangerment ruling — which has triggered costly and burdensome greenhouse gas emissions control regulations and proposed performance standards that would restrict new fossil fuel-based energy generation facilities—is based on bad science and is seeking records regarding the climate sciencerelated peer review processes. With knowledge of the way the most transparent administration in history operates, one can reasonably conclude that ITSSD’s FOIA requests are being slow walked because it has hit upon an area of vulnerability that the administration would rather keep hidden. The requested documents would likely require a re-examination of the EPA’s greenhouse gas endangerment findings that would render them invalid. The closer one looks, the more clear it becomes. The only thing transparent about the Obama administration is its motives for hiding the truth.
can draw daily precipitation information. Of course the best way to know how much precipitation fell in your garden is to put a rain gauge in your garden. You will then have the most accurate information possible for your specific location. Not all rain gauges are equally accurate, so be sure to get a good one. If you choose to collect your own data, you may want to help your neighbors by joining one of the networks mentioned above. Digital weather stations often report to the Weather Underground network.
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Many of these also have web cameras showing outdoor conditions. The CoCoRaHS network works closely with the National Weather Service and has an online store selling rain gauges and other equipment. Reporting to one of these networks is a valuable service and an interesting activity. The maps on the CoCoRaHS site are interesting, showing distribution of rain nationally and locally each day. Finally to answer the question about whether or not irrigation is needed, even without a rain gauge you can check the depth of
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