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  • Stephanie Oman surface cleans a late-19th century gilded frieze in the Great Hall of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.

    Cleaning a gilded frieze at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery

  • Anne Getts working on a gown from the 1938 MGM motion picture Marie Antoinette at the LA County Museum of Art.

    Stabilizing a 1938 MGM Studios gown at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

  • Sara Levin reconstructing the hole-mouth jar, here seen upside down. Photo by Elisheva Kamaisky.

    Summer internship at the Israel Antiquities Authority in Jerusalem

  • Summer internship at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution

    Summer internship at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution

  • Sarah Gowen working at Shangri-La Doris Duke Charitable Foundation

    Summer internship at Shangri La, Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art, Honolulu

  • Adam Novak using a light table

    Filling a loss in a work of art on paper at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco

  • Elena Torok inpainting areas of loss on a taxidermied Blue Hen from UD

    Inpainting losses on a taxidermied Blue Hen from UD's Department of Animal and Food Sciences

  • Nubian Goats enjoying their conservation treatment

    Undergraduate honors students treating bronze sculpture on the UD campus

  • undergraduate ARTC student Katie Bonanno working on a  1930s automaton in the Jeff Smith's Parlor Museum in Alaska

    Undergraduate internship at the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park in Skagway, Alaska 

  • cropped image, Kelsey Wingel undergraduate summer internship in objects at the Met

    Undergraduate internship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York

  • Undergraduate Summer Research Scholar consulting on a flapper dress treatment

    Undergraduate Summer Research Scholar and curators discuss the treatment of a 1920s flapper dress

  • Raman Analysis, Eva Cockcroft's "La Grande Jatte," 1986, Brooklyn

    Performing raman analysis for Heritage Preservation's Rescue Public Murals documentation project

  • HBCU Photographic materials preservation summer institute; photo Evan Krape

    HBCU photo preservation workshop for students from historically black colleges and universities

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    Reducing surface soiling on a woven African mat during a basketry cleaning lab

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ARTC at Discovery Days

  • July 13, 2013   10:00AM – 11:30AM

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.

ARTC at Discovery Days

  • July 20, 2013   10:00AM – 11:30AM

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.

Class of 2013 final presentations

  • August 20, 2013   9:00AM – 5:00PM

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. 

Conservation Clinic

  • September 12, 2013   1:00PM – 4:00PM

Faculty, students, and Winterthur staff share with collectors, curators, owners, caretakers, and scholars their knowledge about caring for works of art and archival material.

Conservation Clinic

  • October 24, 2013   1:00PM – 4:00PM

Faculty, students, and Winterthur staff share with collectors, curators, owners, caretakers, and scholars their knowledge about caring for works of art and archival material.

Conservation Clinic

  • November 21, 2013   1:00PM – 4:00PM

Faculty, students, and Winterthur staff share with collectors, curators, owners, caretakers, and scholars their knowledge about caring for works of art and archival material.

Conservation Clinic

  • December 5, 2013   1:00PM – 4:00PM

Faculty, students, and Winterthur staff share with collectors, curators, owners, caretakers, and scholars their knowledge about caring for works of art and archival material.

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  • WUDPAC alumna has her eye on Rodin

    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.

  • Connecting research with practice

    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.

  • Exposing a Los Angeles mural

    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.

  • MFA Boston spotlights Benin bronze study

    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.

  • Art conservation and moments from history

    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.

  • ARTC students receive governor's volunteer award

    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. 

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