Selected from the largest applicant pool to date, ten aspiring individuals are about to begin their studies as the WUDPAC Class of 2015.
Selected from the largest applicant pool to date, ten aspiring individuals are about to begin their studies as the WUDPAC Class of 2015.
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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.
Historic decorative finishes major and WUDPAC Class of 2012 Fellow Stephanie Oman discusses her third-year internship in the Furniture and Woodwork Conservation Lab at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, including her work on furniture by Benjamin Henry Latrobe and her architectural finishes research at Mount Pleasant, one of the museum's two historic properties located in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park.
A popular volume found in many late 18th and early 19th century schoolrooms was a hieroglyphic Bible, in which some of the words in the text were replaced with pictures. A 1796 edition of the Bible, published in London and dedicated to the “Parents, Guardians and Governesses of Great Britain and Ireland,” has become a treatment project for second-year WUDPAC Fellow Carrie McNeal.
For anyone who's interested in visiting locations on the University of Delaware campus focused on the arts or history, a new resource has been created—thanks to a group of art conservation students and a couple of bronze goats.
Reporter Paul Sullivan recently interviewed key art world and art material experts following the high-profile authenticity problems suffered by a renowned New York City paintings dealer. In the NYT article "A Genuine Motherwell? Make Sure Before Buying," Winterthur Museum Senior Scientist and WUDPAC Adjunct Assistant Professor Jennifer Mass speaks about the proper role of materials analysis in determining artistic attribution.
