Bringing together the international mountmaking community
ABOUT
Who We Are:
We are an international group of allied professionals dedicated to the advancement and the creative work of making safe and well-made exhibition and storage mounts. If you do this work, are interested in doing this work, or are an allied professional who works with mountmakers – You are in the
right place!
What We Do:
Mountmaking is the process of designing, fabricating and installing supports – called “mounts”, “brackets” or “armatures” – for safe display or storage of artworks, artifacts, or natural history specimens. A well-made mount should help protect the object from external hazards or inherent structural weaknesses while enhancing the viewer’s experience.
Our Mission:
The International Mountmakers Forum is an organization that exists to support the work of the mountmaking community. It is committed to fostering communication, promoting best practices, and disseminating current information regarding materials, tools, techniques and solutions for object storage
and display.
We invite you to join the IMF community and share your experiences and perspectives through our Online Forum and at our biennial IMF conference. Your participation will make us all better at supporting our artistic, natural and cultural heritage!
The IMF’s Steering Committee is a group of mountmaking professionals and allied colleagues who volunteer their time, skills, and resources to further the profession of exhibition mountmaking and to create and support opportunities for mountmakers to collaborate and exchange ideas.
Within the Steering Committee, there are three sub-committees:
Publications: Website, Online Forum, IMF Mountmakers Directory, Social Media
Programs: Future conference hosts and support, Virtual programming
Advisory: Past conference hosts, Reviewers, Instructors, Editors and Mentors
IMF STEERING COMMITTEE
Check out our interview series:
"HUMANS OF MOUNTMAKING"
This series was inspired by the AIC-ECPN’s @humans_of_conservation Instagram series. We are grateful to them and expand on their idea with their permission.