Faculty, students, and Winterthur staff share with collectors, curators, owners, caretakers, and scholars their knowledge about caring for works of art and archival material.
Join us in the Winterthur Rotunda as the WUDPAC second-year Fellows deliver technical presentations on their recent treatment projects.
At a special event in Winterthur's Rotunda, paintings conservator and PSP student Tatiana Ausema will present her dissertation proposal entitled "The Evolution of Morris Louis's Materials and Technique: 1954-1962."
Faculty, students, and Winterthur staff share with collectors, curators, owners, caretakers, and scholars their knowledge about caring for works of art and archival material.
Faculty, students, and Winterthur staff share with collectors, curators, owners, caretakers, and scholars their knowledge about caring for works of art and archival material.
The Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation is holding its annual Portfolio Day and open house on November 7 at the Winterthur Museum. Current Fellows in the program will share their portfolios and experiences with prospective applicants. Faculty will be in attendance to answer questions and there will be tours of the labs.
Faculty, students, and Winterthur staff share with collectors, curators, owners, caretakers, and scholars their knowledge about caring for works of art and archival material.
Selected from the largest applicant pool to date, ten aspiring individuals are about to begin their studies as the WUDPAC Class of 2015.
In "The Art and Science of Conservation," the Office of Graduate and Professional Education's spring newsletter takes a closer look at the "profoundly interdisciplinary field" of art conservation, and spotlights the work of 2006 WUDPAC graduate and UD instructor/researcher Brian Baade and 2008 WUDPAC graduate and current PSP doctoral student Kristin de Ghetaldi.
As part of an additional concentration in Preventive Conservation, WUDPAC Fellow Crista Pack spent a summer in Juneau working to document mold in Alaskan heritage collections and make that information available to conservation professionals across the state. Crista's work is currently featured in the Alaska State Museums online bulletin.
PSP student and UD doctoral candidate Dawn Rogala has been selected for the inaugural College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Doctoral Student Summer Scholars program. The ten-week dissertation research and writing grant was awarded to ten UD doctoral students committed to public engagement and outreach.
UD alumnus Martin Salazar is chief conservator at the Walt Disney Family Museum, overseeing every item in the wide-ranging collection, from photographs and documents, animation cels and 3-D models, toys, and jewelry, to Walt Disney's personal collection of miniatures.
ARTC student Hannah Shearer is one of two UD undergraduates recognized this year by the Danish Institute for Study for "stepping out of the box" and building leadership through a variety of cultural immersion activities.
WUDPAC Class of 2012 Fellow Carlos Moya discusses his third-year internship in the paintings conservation department at the Yale University Art Gallery, during an unprecedented period of expansion for the gallery's exhibition and conservation spaces. Carlos shares a look at his work on a series of 19th-century murals from the collection of rail magnate Collis Potter Huntington.
Since 2008, a truly remarkable U.S.-Iraqi educational partnership launched with initial funding from the U.S. Embassy in Iraq, has been evolving in Erbil. The new issue of UD's Global Magazine highlights ARTC efforts in this global partnership to instruct Iraqi students in artifact conservation.
