Associate Professor and Department of Art Conservation Undergraduate Director Vicki Cassman will join other College of Arts and Sciences department representatives at the university's Bob Carpenter Center to speak with interested high school students and their parents about UD's undergraduate programs as part of the annual full-day information fairs known as Discovery Days.
Associate Professor and Department of Art Conservation Undergraduate Director Vicki Cassman will join other College of Arts and Sciences department representatives at the university's Bob Carpenter Center to speak with interested high school students and their parents about UD's undergraduate programs as part of the annual full-day information fairs known as Discovery Days.
On Tuesday, August 20, 2013, our third-year Fellows in the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation will return to Winterthur to present formal illustrated lectures about their internship experiences. We hope you will join us to celebrate their accomplishments.
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.
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.
In their "Eye on the Arts" guide for summer 2013, Philadelphia station CBS 3 throws the spotlight on the collections of the Rodin Museum and Gardens, and the work of WUDPAC alumna and Philadelphia Museum of Art Project Conservator Kate Cuffari.
Collaboration between scientists from WUDPAC and elsewhere with faculty at Cornell University has led to a new series of cross-disciplinary courses based on collections at Cornell's Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. The initiative is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and intended to engage students and new faculty from several different disciplines.
Conservation treatment was recently undertaken to remove layers of whitewash covering "America Tropical," a Los Angeles mural by famed Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros. The work of project team members—including WUDPAC alumna Emily MacDonald-Korth—has received regional awards and been lauded by the press.
The spring 2013 issue of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston's Visiting Committee News is devoted to the activities of the museum's Conservation and Collections Management department. Projects highlighted in the newsletter include the technical study of 28 unique copper alloy artifacts undertaken by WUDPAC alumna and current MFA Boston postgraduate fellow LeeAnn Barnes Gordon.
Frozen in time, six members of a wedding party gaze calmly from a sepia-toned, silver gelatin photograph. The bride holds a floral bouquet and is seated in a chair while the groom and two other couples stand to her left. When this photograph recently became a treatment project for WUDPAC Fellow Heather Brown, her only information was that it came from the program's study collection.
On Wednesday, April 25th the Terrific Tuesday Teen Volunteers from Winterthur Museum, Gardens and Library attended the Governor’s Award Banquet at Dover, Downs. This banquet celebrated the hard work and dedication of youth volunteers from all over Delaware. Winterthur’s teen volunteers received an award for their work in the Arts and Humanities field.
In this blog post, WUDPAC Class of 2013 Fellow Sara Lapham talks about her third-year internship in the PMA's Department of Furniture and Woodwork Conservation, including her work caring for historic park houses, upholstering furniture, and replacing missing claws on a wooden lynx.
Pinball machines are not typical decorative art. Pinball was illegal in many cities even as it reached the zenith of its popularity in the mid-20th century, and the machines’ distinctive artwork was considered a little naughty and risqué. So it may be fitting that when a multi-colored, screen-printed back glass from a pinball machine called "Arabian Knights" became a treatment project for second-year WUDPAC Fellow Jessica Ford, she incorporated modern digital technology in a non-traditional way.
After four years in operation, the Iraqi Institute for the Conservation of Antiquities and Heritage continues to grow, thanks to a strong partnership between the Iraqi government and an international partnership led by the University of Delaware.
Generous funding from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation enables WUDPAC graduate students to advance the study, conservation, and preservation of art across the world through a series of international summer work projects.
