MidWest Fine Art Service and Transportation Co. driver Alex Rivera and handlers Dennis Cleland and Nick Matos collected the exhibition pieces that bring together the rich holdings of contemporary African American art drawn from preeminent collections of contemporary art in the region - the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, the Akron Art Museum, the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Progressive Corporation, and the Cleveland ....

Cincinnati, OH - Tanya Hoggard started collecting letters, cards and artwork sent by children to New York City firefighters and rescue workers eight years ago in the aftermath of 9/11. As a volunteer at ground zero, she saw the power of the drawings and messages, many of them simple but heartfelt. She saw how they put smiles - if ever so briefly - on the faces of the weary workers searching the World Trade Center rubble. She eventually collected nearly 3 tons ....

PITTSBURGH, PA: MidWest Fine Art Service and Transportation, Co. agent for Mayflower Transit recently moved a major traveling exhibition organized by the Andy Warhol Museum, one of the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh to JFK International for air forwarding to Seoul, Korea. In fact, according to Yoo Hee-Young, director of the Seoul Museum of Art, "This is probably the biggest Andy Warhol retrospective exhibition ever in Asia".

The exhibition ....

CLEVELAND,OH – MidWest Fine Art Service and Transportation recently transported and installed a major work by the renowned minimalist sculptor Ronald Bladen (1918-1988). The work titled "Light Year (Garden)" 1979 is the first from an edition of three. The piece is made of painted aluminum, measuring 80" x 156" x 19" and weighs approximately 600lbs. The work was acquired by Director and Professor Emeritus Harvey Buchanan for the ....

OBERLIN, OHIO – MidWest Fine Art Service and Transportation Co. recently re-installed the Allen Memorial Art Museum’s treasured Claes Oldenburg "Three Way Plug". The monumental Cor-Ten steel and bronze sculpture is a favorite landmark on the campus of Oberlin College and had been off view for over a year while undergoing conservation treatment at the Intermuseum Conservation Association in Cleveland.

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CLEVELAND - Chicago sculptor Richard Hunt, whose abstractions in metal have earned acclaim for decades, finds inspiration everywhere, but finds a fine art shipper in Lorain, Ohio. The Sculpture Center show, organized by director Ann Albano, is a revelation; and one of the best sculpture exhibitions in Cleveland in recent memory.

Hunt, 72, is an art-historical survivor. He is one of the last major living exponents of Abstract Expressionism, ....

Akron, OH - MidWest art driver Dave Wieners and Managing Director Charles Eiben collected the works of Chuck Close from all corners of the state recently—from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Butler Institute of American Art and Akron Art Museum in Northeast Ohio to the Toledo Museum of Art in the west and Wexner Center for the Arts, Wright State University Galleries, Cincinnati Art Museum in the south and from private collections ....

Oberlin, OH - The fine arts packing and transportation team of Ron Kartler and Charles Eiben recently packed and moved to the Allen Memorial Art Museum in Oberlin, Ohio important pieces for the exhibition called Engaging Spirits, Empowering Man: Sculpture of Central and West Africa now on display in the King Sculpture Court and East Gallery from September 1 - December 23, 2009.

The dynamic sculptural works from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, ....

Columbus, OH – MidWest Fine Art Service and Transportation Co. crews packed and moved the exhibition “Breakthrough Ideas in Global Glass” recently for the Ohio State University Urban Arts Space. The exhibition was sponsored by Steuben Glass steuben.com and displayed this past summer at both Urban Arts Space and Hawk Galleries hawkgalleries.com in downtown Columbus, Ohio. The intent of the international juried selection process ....

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio - The McDonough Museum of Art on the campus of Youngstown State University recently received from Ohio’s premier fine art and cultural artifact transportation company the exhibition Larry Towell: The World from My Front Porch. Organized by George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film this is the photographer’s largest U.S. exhibition to date. This multi-media retrospective focuses on ....

Cleveland, OH – A trio of art handling specialists from MidWest Fine Art Service and Transportation, LLC, complimented by their rigging colleagues, the Norris Brothers, stopped traffic on busy Carnegie Avenue on a recent August Saturday to move the monumental sculpture, "Three for One." The sculpture was the creation of Dennis L. Jones, the renowned artist and Director of the School of Art at the University of Arizona. ....

YOUNGSTOWN, OH - MidWest F.A.S.T. was the fine art transport company hired to collect and move the exhibition pieces for "AGENCY: Art and Advertising" currently at The McDonough Museum of Art on the campus of Youngstown State University. This will open its 2008/2009 exhibition season and will be featured in the galleries at the Museum beginning September 19 and continues through November 8, 2008. An opening reception will be held ....

OXFORD, Ohio – MidWest F.A.S.T. recently moved the “Philip Morsberger: A Retrospective,” exhibition of the artist’s works from the 1960s to the present assembled by the Morris Museum of Art to the Miami University (Ohio) Art Museum, from the artist’s studio in Augusta, Georgia. Morsberger describes his work as a continuum of “color, craft and things theological.” Curated by Miami’s curator of collections, Edna Southard, ....

Seattle – MidWest Fine Art Service and Transportation Co. LLC recently moved Brian Tolle’s “Stronghold” for the University of Washington campus from the artist’s studio in New York. Brian Tolle, best known for his city-block-sized Irish Hunger Memorial project in Battery Park City, completed this monumental work of sculpture for the University of Washington campus in Seattle. Stronghold (2007) is a 23-foot diameter ....

St. Louis, Missouri - MidWest F.A.S.T team van operators and fine art moving specialists Kirk Lanning and Shawn Marcum recently transported a collection of large-scale paintings by LA-based artist Thaddeus Strode from the international air freight terminals at O’Hare Airport to the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis. The show called Thaddeus Strode: Absolutes and Nothings is curated by Sabine Eckmann, director and chief ....

Columbus, OH – MidWest Fine Art Service and Transportation Co. LLC of Lorain, OH recently moved an exhibition that included Claude Monet paintings from Columbus, Ohio to Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. The collected works were subsequently shipped to Paris for Masterpiece International.

Veteran van operators and art handlers Dave Boughton and John V. Carney, along with traveling couriers and a follow car armada ....

MidWest Fine Art Service and Transportation Co. LLC just completed the shipping leg of the Arms and Armor from Imperial Austria traveling exhibition for Masterpiece International. This exhibition of about 280 items includes examples of the armorer’s craft, including imperial suits of armor, from this important historic collection. These spectacular examples of armor and weapons offers a comprehensive overview of arms and armor produced in ....

CLEVELAND - A 1975 Lincoln Continental Mark IV once owned by Elvis Presley arrived at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum on Thursday January 31 inside a climate controlled Carney-McNicholas, Inc. United Van Lines moving van. The move was arranged by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame through Mayflower Transit agent MidWest Fine Art Service and Transportation Co. LLC of Lorain, Ohio. Moving industry veteran driver Kirk Lanning and co-driver Shawn ....

Oberlin, OH – Midwest Fine Art Service and Transportation Co. recently was called on to move the monumental Claes Oldenburg sculpture, “Giant Three-Way Plug,” from its home at the Allen Memorial Art Museum in Oberlin, Ohio to the Intermuseum Conservation Association in Cleveland for conservation treatment.

The sculpture is made of Core Ten steel and bronze and weighs an estimated three thousand pounds. It is ....

Big Rapids, Michigan – MidWest Fine Art Service and Transportation Co. LLC recently moved the exhibition Hateful Things from Ferris State University to Virginia State University. The exhibition is part of celebrations planned for Black History month at Virginia State and opens Monday, Feb. 11 and will be returned to the Jim Crow Museum at Ferris State after a two week run.

The 39-piece, traveling exhibition contains pictures, ....

Lorain, OH - MidWest Fine Art Service and Transportation Co. LLC recently moved two stops of "The Graphic Imperative: International Posters of Peace, Social Justice and the Environment 1965-2005”. In December the exhibition moved from the Luckman Fine Arts Complex, California State University Los Angeles in a Carney-McNicholas, Inc. United Van Lines agent van with company contractor and veteran van operator Jason Rauscher to the School ....

MidWest Fine Arts Services and Transportation Co. completed the relocations of the outdoor sculpture collection for Akron Art Museum as they prepared for the grand opening of their new wing. MidWest art handlers Andy and Keith Rock, working closely with Akron Art Museum Registrar Arnie Tunstall and his crew of handlers, along with MidWest F.A.S.T. equipment operator Tim Carney and Carney-McNicholas flat bed driver Dan Fernback worked two days ....

AKRON, OH – MidWest Fine Arts recently completed the moving and installation of the Claes Oldenburg piece “Soft Inverted Q”. Soft Inverted Q is a life-size painted concrete and resin sculpture weighing about 3 1/2 tons and measuring 72 inches high, 70 inches wide and 63 inches deep. The “Q” was at ICA in Cleveland for conservation work while construction in Akron was going on. It is typical of ....

CLEVELAND, OH CMCN’s MidWest FAST recently moved two inspiring textile objects: historical United States flags. Interestingly enough, they were moved to the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. The mission of the center is to “reveal stories about freedom’s heroes, from the era of the Underground Railroad to contemporary times, challenging and inspiring everyone to take courageous steps for freedom today.” ....

Cleveland, Ohio - CMCN’s crew of dedicated art handlers, packers, and conveyers was hired to relocate the outdoor sculpture Urns installed in the outdoor public space in the heart of downtown Cleveland known as "Mall B". After being selected for the 2003 International Call for Artists competition, Brian Tolle created the 2-year, temporary public art sculpture, "For the Gentle Wind Doth Move Silently, Invisibly," on commission ....

IN 1906, J.V. McNICHOLAS PULLED HIS HORSE- drawn wagon up to the railroad tracks along the banks of the Mahoning River for the first time. He must have wondered what the future would bring.

After all, he had just left his job at the steel mill, borrowed $100 from his mother and bought two horses and two wagons so he could deliver goods that were unloaded from the trains in downtown Youngstown.

He was gambling that freight hauling had a bright ....

Cleveland, Ohio (Sept. 12, 2006)- Carney-McNicholas, Inc. of Berea, Ohio has announced it has acquired Midwest Fine Art Services and Transportation, also known as Midwest F.A.S.T. of Kipton, Ohio. Midwest F.A.S.T. was founded in 1990 by Marvin Fannin who saw a specific need from his position as Technical Shop Supervisor at the Oberlin College Art Department and the Allen Art Museum in the regional transportation market for specialized art handlers ....

Carney-McNicholas, Inc. Fine Art Transfer and Handling Service recently completed a successful relocation of David Salle’s massive original oil on canvas, “Songs for Sale,” from the Key Building in Cleveland, Ohio to an exhibition in New York City. The postmodernist’s piece, composed of 17 individual 5’x10’ panels, was hung 30 feet above the lobby floor and removed by a combination of mechanical lifting equipment ....

Carney-McNicholas, Inc. recently moved the Indian Museum of Lake County from its former home, a brick house in Painesville on the campus of Lake Erie College, to its new location on school grounds in Willoughby, Ohio.

The move, completed by six CM movers over the course of one long day, was unlike any others for the veteran movers. “We moved rocks that were used to shape other rocks. Totem poles, buffalo heads, stuffed bears… just ....

EDMONTON, AB - Two MidWest FAST tractor-trailer teams delivered the traveling exhibition Museums in the 21st Century: Concepts, Projects, Buildings to the Art Gallery of Edmonton recently. This exhibition presents 27 of the world’s most important museum building projects that have been conceived, planned and built in the early years 21st century. These projects are represented by sketches, architectural plans, photographs and models ....

LORAIN, OH - Carney-McNicholas’ MidWest Fine Art Services and Transportation division is pleased to announce that moving industry veteran and long-time Carney-McNicholas, Inc. employee has invested in and is now owner-operator of a new climate controlled Freightliner Sprinter van. The van is equipped to move temperature sensitive art-work between exhibitions, to and from collectors or conservators, and is especially useful in serving art ....

John Carney, a Carney-McNicholas, Inc. fifth generation mover, attended a UniGroup sponsored “boot camp” training recently to improve customer service practices and customer service leadership skills. CMCN and affiliated company Midwest Fine Art Service and Transportation Co., LLC belong to quite a transportation organization. They are each part of an industry leading major van line. CMCN is part of United Van Lines, the country’s ....

AKRON, OHIO - Carney-McNicholas, Inc. owned MidWest Fine Arts Services and Transportation Company, in collaboration with Andy Rock Fine Arts, LLC recently completed the relocation of the Akron Art Museum’s -- www.akronartmuseum.org -- entire collection of Stieglitz, Rauschenberg, Warhol, Weegee and other internationally known artists work from storage at the Intermuseum Conservation Association --www.ica-artconservation.org ....