UD's College of Arts and Sciences is now accepting applications for the 2011 Arts and Humanities Summer Institute (AHSI). This rigorous four-week program prepares students for graduate-level coursework in the humanities while also giving them opportunities to conduct archival and object-based research. This year's Institute will feature programs in art conservation and english. Applications are due by February 14.
In a recent article on Saddam Hussein's "Blood Quran," WUDPAC faculty member Bruno Pouliot and UD undergraduate conservation program director Vicki Cassman discuss the literal and symbolic use of blood in art.
Applications are due by February 1 for the Advanced Scholarship Award in Paper Conservation and Connoisseurship and the Professional Development Award in Asian or Contemporary Art Preservation.
WUDPAC fellow Alisha Chipman shares projects from her third-year internship placements at the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian Institution Archives, as she works to preserve a range of historical photographic collections.
Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation professor and UD Preservation Studies Doctoral Program director Dr. Joyce Hill Stoner will be the 2011 recipient of the CAA/ Heritage Preservation Award for Distinction in Scholarship and Conservation. The annual award was initiated in 1990 to recognize an outstanding contribution by persons who, individually or jointly, have enhanced understanding of art through the application of knowledge and experience in conservation, art history, and art.
We begin this new web feature with a look at the activities of Meg Loew Craft, a member of WUDPAC’s first graduating class, currently AIC President and Senior Objects Conservator at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore.
Working with the Institute for Museum and Library Services, Heritage Preservation recently presented the Connecting to Collections webinar series. WUDPAC faculty and alumni joined other experts in presenting online seminars on topics ranging from the use of social media to development and public outreach.
Houdini is trapped, and the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts has asked Grace Owen and Renée Wolcott to rescue him. In this blog entry, Renée discusses the treatment of a scrapbook of magic posters during her internship at the Barbara Goldsmith Conservation Laboratory at The New York Public Library.
The University of Delaware is pleased to
announce the receipt of grant funding from
the Samuel H. Kress Foundation toward the
production of two historically accurate
reconstructions in association with the
spring 2011 undergraduate course entitled
“Reconstructing the Old Masters.”
The East Asian Painting Conservation Studio at the Smithsonian Institution's Freer Sackler Gallery of Art recently posted the first installation in what will be a series of educational media on the conservation of Asian paintings. WUDPAC alumna Courtney Shimoda filmed and edited the videos, which demonstrate safe handling procedures for Chinese and Japanese scrolls.
