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WUDPAC Class of 2015 is announced

Selected from the largest applicant pool to date, ten aspiring individuals are about to begin their studies as the WUDPAC Class of 2015.

WUDPAC and PSP featured in Professional Education News

  • Brian Baade and Kristin de Ghetaldi examine a historical reconstruction  [Photo by Kathy Atkinson]

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.

Alaska State Museum spotlights work of WUDPAC Fellow

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 one of Dean's first "summer scholars"

  • Dawn Rogala sampling paintings in Berkeley

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.

WUDPAC alumnus keeps Disney's vision alive

  • Martin Salazar at Disney

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 wins study abroad award

  • UD student Hannah Shearer (left) instructs her host brother and sister (Mads and Mette) in how to make American cupcakes.

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.

Student Blog: Philadelphia Museum of Art

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  • Stephanie Oman surface cleaning a side chair from the Waln suite of furniture. (photo Behrooz Salimnejad)
  • Waln side chair during treatment in visible light.  The topmost layers of varnish have been removed from the crest rail on the right half of the image.  (photo Joe Mikuliak)
  • Waln side chair during treatment in ultraviolet radiation showing the fluorescence of the underlying varnish layers after varnish reduction on the crest rail.  (photo Joe Mikuliak)
  • Stephanie Oman revealing the original wood graining at Mount Pleasant. (photo Peg Olley)
  • Mount Pleasant in Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park was built between 1762 and 1765. (photo Joe Mikuliak)

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.

Preserving rare-format historical books

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  • Carrie McNeal removing adhesive residues
  • Carrie McNeal project; folio detail 1
  • Carrie McNeal project; folio detail 2
  • Carrie McNeal project; spine before treatment
  • Carrie McNeal project; spine after treatment

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.

ARTC students work on campus sculpture

  • Art conservation students work on the Nubian goats on the South Green. UDaily photo.

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.

WUDPAC scientist is featured in The New York Times

  • Jennifer Mass, of the Winterthur Museum, conducting forensic analysis on a painting attributed to Matthias Stom. Tim Shaffer for The New York Times.

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.

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