Ron Stark:  

Life Ron Stark is the director of S/R Laboratories Animation Art Conservation Center in Westlake Village, California. For the past 30+ years he has been “Mickey’s doctor,” as he sometimes says in an attempt to briefly explain his job. S/R Laboratories is the only facility in the world dedicated to the preservation of art used in the making of animated films. S/R is also the home of Courvoisier Galleries® of San Francisco. In 1937, Courvoisier Galleries became the first to sell and distribute Disney’s animation art to the general public. Today, all of the styles, traditions, and craftsmanship that went into the distinctive Courvoisier presentations created at the Disney Studios and later at Courvoisier reside at S/R Labs. In addition, S/R recreated the unique inks and paints for Disney’s Art Editions Sleeping Beauty limited edition cel suite and has restored artwork for many Disney Company departments, including the Disney Archives and the Animation Research Library. Ron has served as the consulting conservator and archivist to Disney’s World Wide Publishing division in Burbank, providing guidance for the preservation of over one million images from the historic Golden Books to comic strips, model sheets, stills, coloring and activity books, and just about any image you can recall from the hundreds of thousands of Disney publications produced over the years. Add to that the Disney Art Editions archives as well. Whether it’s a Sericel, limited edition boxed set of illustrations, or a hand-inked production cel, itÂ...Expand for more