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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 piecing together history

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A glazed ceramic bowl of Middle Eastern Islamic origin recently became a treatment project for WUDPAC Fellow Victoria Schussler. Made of fritware sometime between the 13th and 15th centuries, the bowl is almost four inches high, approximately seven inches in diameter, and decorated with a pattern of green, blue, and black geometric and floral arabesques. Broken in pieces and covered with discolored and failed restoration materials, the bowl was donated to the program’s study collection in 2002. 

Institute for preserving Iraq's heritage thrives

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A decade ago, looters plundered thousands of important artifacts from the Iraq Museum in Baghdad, from intricately carved cylinder seals for leaving one’s mark in wet clay, to exquisite ivory figures that once decorated the palaces of Assyrian kings and queens. Out of such loss, a unique partnership involving Iraqis and Americans has emerged to help protect Iraq’s heritage.

Alumni Spotlight: Ann Shaftel

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Ann Shaftel was a member of WUDPAC’s second graduating class and now works in private practice. In this Alumni Spotlight, Ann gives us a glimpse at her wide-ranging activities, including the in-situ treatment of sacred art at Tibetan monasteries and her efforts to educate global audiences about art crime at a 2013 INTERPOL Conference on Cultural Preservation.

Student Blog: Stichting Restauratie Atelier Limburg

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In this blog post, WUDPAC Class of 2013 Fellow Morgan Hayes talks about her summer internship working with panel paintings in the Netherlands, including her structural work on a oversized 16th-century altarpiece from the collection of the Gouda Stedelijk Museum.

Art conservation and historical arms

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  • WUDPAC Fellow Marlene Yandrisevits mechanically reduces corrosion on the sword's blade using a scalpel.
  • Micrograph of “weeping iron” corrosion products on the blade.
  • The placement and toning of  a textured fill for the ray skin hilt grip.
  • The placement and toning of  a textured fill for the ray skin hilt grip.
  • The placement and toning of  a textured fill for the ray skin hilt grip.

Made of steel, brass, wood, leather and the skin of a saltwater fish called the ray, highly prized swords and scabbards known as patags are seldom seen outside the landlocked borders of the Kingdom of Bhutan. This particular sword and scabbard, however, are in the Asian Section at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, and recently became a treatment project for WUDPAC Fellow Marlene Yandrisevits.

Cleaning of painted surfaces workshop recap

A detailed review of the Vancouver Art Gallery's three-day cleaning workshop with UD Associate Professor and NSF grantee Richard Wolbers is now available on the web site for the International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works.

UD students collaborate on "Common Threads"

“Common Threads: History of Fashion through a Woman’s Eyes”—an exhibition on display until June 28 in Old College’s West Gallery—incorporates the results of a two-year collaboration between faculty and students of the university's fashion and apparel studies, art history and art conservation departments.

Student Blog: Museums of New Mexico

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  • Crista Pack. Cleaning paper butterflies on Seventy-Three in a Moment with a HEPA-filtered variable speed vacuum and soft bristle brush.
  • Crista Pack. Interview with the artist, Tasha Ostrander (left) at the downtown lab of the Museums of New Mexico-Conservation Unit. Photo by Mina Thompson.
  • Crista Pack. Seventy Three in a Moment by Tasha Ostrander: detail image, showing a section of paper butterflies after cleaning.
  • Crista Pack. Seventy-Three in a Moment, by Tasha Ostrander (1996) - detail of central panel. Collection of New Mexico Museum of Art.
  • Crista Pack. Seventy-Three in a Moment, by Tasha Ostrander (1996) - detail of central panel and one outer panel. Collection of New Mexico Museum of Art.
  • Crista Pack. Replacement paper butterflies created by Tasha Ostrander to compensate for losses on Seventy-Three in a Moment. “2013” is written on the back to distinguish these from originals.

In this blog post, WUDPAC Class of 2013 Fellow Crista Pack talks about her third-year internship position with the New Mexico conservation staff responsible for five museum collections and eight monuments, and discusses her work in a department filled with 26,000 paper butterflies.

Art conservation and history’s music

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For almost 1500 years, a stringed, musical instrument called the ud (or oud) has been a familiar part of life in the Middle East. An eight-string, 19th-century Moroccan ud owned by the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology since the late 1890s recently became a treatment project for WUDPAC Second-year Fellow Jennifer Schnitker.
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