Creative Fabrication
& Installation
Fine Art
Mountmaking

Garrick Manninen
garrickem@yahoo.com

I specialize in art and artifact mount design and fabrication; pedestal design and construction; and exhibit installation for museums, private collectors, conservators, galleries and artists.

Please contact me if you would like to discuss your project or individual object.

Partial List of Clients:

  • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

  • Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge MA

  • Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA

  • Historic New England (SPNEA)

  • State Capital Museum, Atlanta, GA

  • Perkins School for the Blind Museum, Watertown, MA

  • Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME

  • National Taiwan Museum

  • Museum of Fine Arts, Nagoya, Japan

  • Genzyme Corp., Cambridge, MA

  • De Cordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA

  • Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum, Los Angeles, CA

Experience and Education:

  • 14 years mount-making and fine art installation

  • BFA, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA

  • Graduate Collections Care Program, Campbell Center for Historic Preservation Studies, Mount Carroll, IL

Visitors

I have worked with a wide variety of objects including contemporary jewelry; Greek and Roman glass and jewelry; small delicate Japanese netsuke; large outdoor modern sculpture and Egyptian antiquities weighing hundreds of pounds.

Click here for a trade show booths in Las Vegas of some mounts I have recently designed and fabricated.