IMA Uses New Microscope Technology to Improve Art Analysis
Business Wire
Published: August 9, 2011
OBERKOCHEN, Germany & NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Carl Zeiss today announced that the Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA) is using a Carl Zeiss “Shuttle & Find” Correlative Microscopy package in the museum’s new state-of-the-art conservation science laboratory funded by Lilly Endowment Inc. Read More

IMA Gift to Endow Science Position
Inside Indiana Business
Published: May 3, 2011
The Indianapolis Museum of Art has received a $1.5 million gift from the estate of Otto Nick Frenzel III to endow the senior conservation scientist. The position, held by Dr. Gregory Dale Smith, was established through a $1.75 million Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant in 2008, which required a match within three years. Frenzel was a longtime Indianapolis philanthropist and former IMA trustee. Read More

Gregory Dale Smith Appointed Conservation Scientist at Indianapolis Museum
Art Daily
Published: October 1, 2010
The Indianapolis Museum of Art announced that it has hired Dr. Gregory Dale Smith as the Senior Conservation Scientist to lead the new Conservation Science Laboratory at the IMA. The position was established through a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This grant, which must be matched by $1.5 million within three years, will enable the IMA to establish a state-of-the-art conservation science laboratory under the leadership of Smith. Read More

Profile: Conservation Scientist
Central Science
By: LEIGH KRIETSCH BOERNER | Published: August 11, 2010
Gregory Dale Smith has his dream job.

Late last year, the Indianapolis Museum of Art hired the Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Conservation Science at Buffalo State College as the new Senior Conservation Scientist. The position was created by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and with the help of another $2.6 million grant from the Lilly Endowment, Smith will create a new conservation science lab. From the ground up. Read More

Art and Science to Blend at New Conservation Lab
Inside Indiana Business
Published: February 25, 2010
At first glance, the subjects of art and science may seem to exist at opposite ends of the spectrum, but in the world of conservation science, the two subjects are remarkably intertwined—and Indianapolis will soon have a new place where they can converge. In just a matter of days, the Indianapolis Museum of Art will begin construction on its new Conservation Science Laboratory. Under the leadership of recently hired Senior Conservation Scientist Dr. Greg Smith, the lab is expected to forge new relationships among the arts community, Indiana's burgeoning life sciences industry and university academia—a relationship, Smith says, will benefit all. Read More