In addition to digitally cataloguing a portion of the museum's archival holdings, I was charged with the task of managing a collection of artworks by a singular artist, Mary Wilson Ball. This involved the rehousing of several dozen paintings on unstretched canvas. Before the rehousing, the works slid around in disordered stacks  in archival storage cabinets. After a consultation with the Collections Manager, blue board supports were specially cut to the dimensions of each painting. The artwork was then held to the support with a fitted mylar sleeve. Gloves were worn during the preparation and assembly of the materials. The accession numbers of the items were transcribed to the back of the blue board so that the artworks would not need to be extracted in order to accurately identify them. 

Mary Wilson Ball (1892-1984), a native Charlestonian, was a prolific oil painter, etcher, and watercolorist concurrent with the Charleston Renaissance, a vibrant artistic movement in the 1920s. Her work showed a breadth of both subject matter and style, depicting conversely marsh landscapes and genre scenes of African American life in the American South. The majority of the museum's holdings related to Ball are figure and gestural drawings that show her commitment to realism and individuality of the sitter. The Ball Collection consists of the artwork in Ball's studio at the time of her death. The collection was not catalogued and unlabeled in museum storage until I was tasked with completing the accessioning and rehousing of the artwork in 2015.