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  • Poison Book Project Outreach: Connecting with Booksellers and Librarians
  • Student Blog: Field Museum of Natural History
  • Art conservation and voices from the past
  • ARTC/CHEM professor receives technical diving grant
  • Field Notes with Winterthur Scientist Catherine Matsen
  • Student Blog: Photograph Conservation
  • Art conservation and structural puzzles
  • Replicating George Washington’s suit
  • Building conservation partnerships at the University of Texas
  • Call for applications to Making Space: Intro to Woodworking for Conservators
  • Student Blog: Museum of Modern Art
  • Finding their True North
  • Art conservation and a life at sea
  • Congratulations to our Alumni Professional Venture Fund awardees
  • In partnership for preservation
  • Land art brings the outside in
  • When art meets science
  • Student Blog: Senior Capstone Project
  • Art conservation and tales of the sea
  • Student Blog: University of Iowa Libraries
  • Palace Life Unfolds: Conserving a Chinese lacquer screen
  • On the road with the Poison Book Project
  • Giving Tuesday
  • Call for Applications: Vicki Cassman Undergraduate Award
  • Posters and paella
  • Working with rare and unique collections
  • A hands-on workshop shows HBCU students how to conserve historic magazine photographs
  • A summit on safety in collections care
  • Student Blog: National Palace Museum, Taipei (國立故宮博物院)
  • ARTC student among Class of 2023 Plastino Scholars
  • Arts Playlist: Multifaceted program aims to improve diversity in art conservation
  • Student Blog: Dartmouth College
  • Welcome to the Winterthur/University of Delaware Class of 2026
  • Congratulations to the Winterthur/University of Delaware Class of 2023
  • Student Blog: Philadelphia Museum of Art
  • Taking survey-making by storm with the Greener Solvents Project
  • A New Generation of Conservators
  • Art conservation and tales of a difficult past
  • UD receives grant intended to boost black representation in the arts
  • Art conservation and tales from the road
  • Art conservation and historical trade
  • Totally Tubular: Creating supports for a 19th-century Victorian bodice
  • A summer of ceramics
  • Dr. Melissa Tedone to join ARTC as Assistant Professor and WUDPAC Associate Director
  • Art conservation and historical treatments
  • Vicki Cassman Undergraduate Award recipients
  • Congrats to the UD Class of 2023!
  • Art conservation and historical tool belts
  • Interim Dean appointed
  • ‘Images to be treasured’
  • Student Blog: Library of Congress
  • Art conservation and historical newspapers
  • WUDPAC summer and third-year placements
  • Dr. Roxanne Radpour to join the Department of Art Conservation
  • Dr. Liora Mael to join the Department of Art Conservation
  • Six-Week Introduction to Practical Conservation (SIP-C)
  • Student Blog: Arizona State Museum
  • What do soil and 18th century paint have in common?
  • Life in the Secret City
  • Over troubled waters
  • Student Blog: Philadelphia Museum of Art
  • Art conservation and reference collections
  • Art conservation and iconic animation
  • Funder Spotlight: The International Questers
  • Student Blog: Walters Art Museum
  • Historic preservation
  • Charles Willson Peale in Paris
  • Call for Applications: Rowntree Research Award in Contemporary Art
  • Is Picasso overrated? Ask the National Gallery Anything.
  • Student Blog: Harry Ransom Center
  • Call for chapter editors and contributors: Caring for Plant-Based Material Culture
  • Call for proposals: Krill and Fiske Awards 2023
  • Art conservation and designing a treatment
  • New technology for conservators
  • YouTube Short on poisonous books has millions of views
  • Student Blog: Objects Conservation at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Art conservation and planning a treatment
  • WUDPAC alumna helps save collections ravaged by Hurricane Ian
  • Student Blog: Preventive Conservation at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • H.F. Du Pont's tortoiseshell box at Winterthur that was most definitely not British
  • Art conservation and plotting a treatment
  • Student Blog: Fashion Institute of Technology
  • New UD spectrometer can detect surface materials, down to individual atoms
  • The spattered jama
  • Life-sized Lincoln Logs
  • Join us for WUDPAC Portfolio Day 2022!
  • Student Blog: University of British Columbia
  • Conservation in Puerto Rico
  • Not all heroes wear lab coats
  • WUDPAC announces modifications to its admissions requirements and interview process
  • How does a museum care for its collection?
  • Student Blog: Chrysler Museum of Art
  • Conservation at the Dallas Museum of Art
  • Textile conservation and Ella Fitzgerald
  • Experimenting with art, science
  • Anya Dani appointed to new Getty-funded role at UCLA
  • Art conservation and stepping out of the box
  • Student Blog: Cleveland Museum of Art
  • Art conservation and historical influence
  • Arsenic and old books
  • Princeton University Art Museum names Elena Torok as its first Associate Objects Conservator
  • Student Blog: Museum of Modern Art
  • CHAD advances two National Historic Landmark nominations at DC meeting
  • Community-centered cultural heritage care
  • WUDPAC Class of 2022 final presentations
  • WUDPAC Class of 2023 third-year placements
  • WUDPAC Class of 2024 summer work placements
  • Art conservation and the return of the king
  • Maddie Hagerman joins department as continuing-track assistant professor
  • In Memoriam: Dr. Peter Sparks
  • In Memoriam: Margaret Anderson (Fikioris)
  • These green books are poisonous—and one may be on a shelf near you
  • Student Blog: National Museum of Asian Art
  • Revolutionary views
  • History never goes out of style
  • Painting by Willem de Kooning will exhibit at the Getty Center following extensive conservation
  • Decision Days 2022
  • Student Blog: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
  • 2022 AIC award winners
  • Art conservation and a view into history
  • New website for the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
  • TikTok creators wearing Victorian-era fashion
  • PSP student called to preserve
  • Art conservation and preserving the luster of time
  • New MoMA exhibit includes CCAHA work by WUDPAC alumna
  • Alumni Blog: National Air and Space Museum
  • Art conservation and protecting historic interiors
  • Preservation and Partnership: Art conservation course treats Tuskegee photographs
  • Blog series launches on whatisconservation.com
  • Studying slavery
  • Student Blog: University of Pennsylvania
  • Art conservation and prehistoric mysteries
  • ECPN Interview: Textiles with Kris Cnossen
  • Alumni Professional Venture Fund awardees
  • Investigating Basquiat
  • Student Blog: University of Michigan Library
  • ECPN Interview: Textiles with Annabelle Camp
  • Art conservation and mending the past
  • Conservation in action
  • Student Blog: Weissman Preservation Center
  • Student Blog: Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library
  • Adventures in organic chemistry
  • Student Blog: Technical Museum of East Iceland
  • Behind the Scenes: Treatment of an Early Work by Henry Ossawa Tanner
  • Student Blog: Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields
  • Students take Art and Theater Safety Course with Monona Rossol
  • Student Blog: Winterthur Museum and the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
  • Conservators who write fiction
  • Join us on October 13 for our annual WUDPAC Portfolio Day!
  • A painting comes home
  • Student Blog: Navigating the pre-program landscape
  • Art conservation and double (or triple) the mystery
  • In Memoriam: Linda Eaton
  • Art conservation and a sense of obligation
  • Student Blog: Philadelphia Museum of Art
  • Our thanks and best wishes to Melanie Gifford on her retirement
  • Conservation treatment of the Caramelo Deportivo: ¡Pleibol!
  • Student Blog: Discovering Preservation Studies
  • Winterthur Guide Shows Readers How to Care for Their Heirlooms and Antiques
  • Lessons from the Pandemic: WUDPAC goes virtual
  • ECPN survey report is now available online
  • Student Blog: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
  • Dissertation scholars shine
  • Art conservation and preserving a ceramic puzzle
  • Student Blog: Mauritshuis
  • Emphasizing the diversity of the ancient past
  • HenFunder: Vicki Cassman Undergraduate Award in Art Conservation
  • Faculty Blog: Technology of Cultural Materials
  • Seniors honored by UD Alumni Association
  • WUDPAC Class of 2022 summer and third-year placements
  • WUDPAC Class of 2023 summer work placements
  • Student Blog: A world of preprogram experiences
  • Art conservation and cultural sensitivity in treatment
  • How does the Getty battle bugs?
  • IIC Honorary Fellowship awarded to Dr. Joyce Hill Stoner
  • Student Blog: Brooklyn Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Student Blog: Library of Congress
  • To restore or preserve?
  • Art conservation and preserving a rare needlework
  • Art conservation and preserving a pop-up aquarium
  • Student Blog: University of Chicago Library
  • Art conservation and clippings from history
  • On the front edge of discovery
  • Conserving Cuzco School Paintings
  • Student Blog: Midwest Art Conservation Center
  • Art conservation and the brittle bower
  • Student Blog: Wagner Free Institute of Philadelphia
  • Student Blog: That’s the way the crockery crumbles
  • Caring for Art during COVID-19
  • Art conservation and the life of a teapot
  • Student Blog: Making project-specific tools
  • Student Blog: Philadelphia Museum of Art
  • Student Blog: National Air and Space Museum
  • Art conservation and raising the sails
  • Preserving the tangible and intangible
  • Revisions to 2021 WUDPAC admissions requirements
  • Graduate programs respond to COVID-19
  • WUDPAC alumnus working on Notre Dame restoration
  • Unpacking and Preserving William H. Johnson's 'Fighters for Freedom' Series
  • Intern helps care for objects left at site of George Floyd Memorial
  • Preserving tributes, history
  • Giving an officer's coat new life
  • Conserving the curriculum
  • Student Blog: Smithsonian's Lunder Conservation Center
  • The conservation of ephemeral art
  • Preserving dioramas of African American history
  • Student Blog: Colonial Williamsburg
  • Welcome WUDPAC Class of 2023!
  • Join us for Portfolio Day 2020
  • Congratulations to the WUDPAC Class of 2020!
  • Preserving protest art
  • Student Blog: Museums are not neutral
  • Attics and Basements and Closets, Oh My! Part 20: Musical Instruments
  • In Memoriam: Dr. Vicki Cassman
  • Student Blog: A change in plans
  • At Home with Arts @ UD
  • Attics and Basements and Closets, Oh My! Part 19: Gilded Frames
  • Accolades for Dr. Joyce Hill Stoner
  • Attics and Basements and Closets, Oh My! Part 18: Furniture
  • Student Blog: Preserving textile traditions
  • Attics and Basements and Closets, Oh My! Part 17: Paintings
  • Kris Cnossen named Stryker Memorial Award recipient for the WUDPAC Class of 2022
  • Join Black conservators and demand racial justice in art conservation
  • Attics and Basements and Closets, Oh My! Part 16: Plastics
  • Video Profiles: The life of a Smithsonian conservator
  • Attics and Basements and Closets, Oh My! Part 15: Metal Jewelry
  • A message from the WUDPAC classes of 2020, 2021, and 2022
  • Attics and Basements and Closets, Oh My! Part 14: Glassware
  • Humanities ambassadors
  • Attics and Basements and Closets, Oh My! Part 13: Basketry
  • Make Art @ Home
  • Attics and Basements and Closets, Oh My! Part 12: Ceramics
  • Objects in mirror are more complex than they appear
  • Student Blog: Rijksmuseum
  • Attics and Basements and Closets, Oh My! Part 11: Clothing
  • Attics and Basements and Closets, Oh My! Part 10: Quilts and Bedspreads
  • Five for Fulbright
  • Work-from-home workshops
  • This is "a resting time for the art"
  • Attics and Basements and Closets, Oh My! Part 9: Small Needleworks
  • Student Blog: Library of Congress
  • Attics and Basements and Closets, Oh My! Part 8: Upholstery
  • Class of 2020 final presentations to be held online
  • Attics and Basements and Closets, Oh My! Part 7: Rugs and Carpets
  • Attics and Basements and Closets, Oh My! Part 6: Water Emergencies and Salvage
  • Attics and Basements and Closets, Oh My! Part 5: Pests and Preventive Conservation
  • Family treasures
  • Preparing for graduate study while sheltering in place
  • Student Blog: Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Attics and Basements and Closets, Oh My! Part 4: Library Collections
  • Art history in Rome
  • Attics and Basements and Closets, Oh My! Part 3: Works on Paper
  • Helping to bring back Notre Dame
  • ARTC research and outreach in the spotlight
  • Attics and Basements and Closets, Oh My! Part 2: Family Albums
  • Student Blog: Mauritshuis
  • Art conservation and preserving fragments of human history
  • Attics and Basements and Closets, Oh My! Caring for Family Treasures
  • A visit to the Met's Department of Photograph Conservation
  • The Baltimore Collection
  • Student Blog: Art Institute of Chicago
  • Art conservation and hidden histories
  • Student Blog: University of Michigan Library
  • Climate change draws attention and action from the collections care community
  • International activities in the Preservation Studies Doctoral Program at the University of Delaware
  • Student Blog: WUDPAC Class of 2022 Photographic Materials Block
  • Call for proposals: Krill and Fiske Awards 2020
  • Where to go to watch the paint dry
  • Lessons of Nancy Drew
  • The conservation behind the Blaeu World Map
  • Behind the seams
  • Recognition for Stoner
  • Conserving canvas
  • Making a case for preservation of visual archives
  • Peabody dinosaur mural gets a check up
  • Student Blog: Documenting contemporary art
  • Barnes Foundation unveils The Large Bathers
  • Inside the conservation laboratory at the Met's Costume Institute
  • Art conservation and hidden fashions
  • Preserving the past for museum visitors of the future
  • Rescuing art: The creativity and science of conservation
  • Art conservation and hidden histories
  • Reflections on Portfolio Day 2019
  • Student Blog: English Heritage
  • Student Blog: Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library
  • Lock of Lizzie
  • Art conservation and piecing together the past
  • Tips for promoting art conservation on social media
  • Scoping out science
  • Student Blog: From Rauschenberg to Dürer, and back
  • A Matter of Justice and Preservation
  • Digging Into the Library
  • Art conservation and a passion for prevention
  • Join us for Portfolio Day 2019
  • Student Blog: Rhode Island School of Design
  • Student Blog: Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts
  • Student Blog: Lewes Historical Society
  • WUDPAC alumna is Doctor Honoris Causa
  • Careers in conservation
  • Student Blog: Preserving Natural History Collections
  • Art conservation and historical restorations
  • A conservation legacy
  • Recent faculty hires at UD and Winterthur
  • Student Blog: Lunder Conservation Center
  • WUDPAC student receives Fulbright Program award
  • Student Blog: Time-Based Media
  • Art conservation and historical documents
  • What does a museum scientist do?
  • The life of an emerging conservator
  • New faculty appointments
  • Student Blog: Lunder Conservation Center
  • Art conservation and a passion for preservation
  • Training the people who are saving our culture
  • North Pole to UD
  • Holly Salmon named Director of Conservation at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
  • ARTC students join Phi Beta Kappa
  • Pioneering a new vision for the cultural heritage sector
  • Costuming "The Crown"
  • Student Blog: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
  • Art conservation and harrowing journeys
  • Student Blog: The Walters Art Museum
  • Art conservation and historical journeys
  • Undergraduates Present their Work in the Vicki Cassman Symposium
  • The conservation of a vase of flowers
  • Philadelphia Museum of Art opens renovated Chinese galleries
  • Student Blog: Heugh-Edmondson Conservation Services
  • Art conservation and best foot forward
  • Art conservation and preserving illustrations
  • Student Blog: Students Preserve the Legacy of African American Service Members in the Photograph Conservation Seminar
  • WUDPAC alumna discovers hidden drawings in works by Basquiat
  • Vicki Cassman Undergraduate Art Conservation Symposium
  • The collaborative conservation of large-scale artwork
  • Student Blog: Hispanic Society of America
  • Preserving intangible heritage
  • Highlighting the humanities
  • Untying restoration from current conservation practices
  • Winterthur’s Scientific Research and Analysis Laboratory reopens
  • Art conservation and a mysterious landscape
  • Student Blog: Harry Ransom Center
  • Unveiling the matriarch
  • Art conservation and a passion for learning
  • Student Blog: Working with indigenous communities
  • Student Blog: Stedelijk Museum
  • Art conservation and building a framework
  • A tale of two summers
  • Off the wall and back again
  • Anatomy of an art conservator's laboratory
  • Student Blog: Field Notes from a Paper Conservation Intern
  • Art conservation and preserving cultures
  • Uncovering ancient preparatory drawings
  • Student Blog: IIC Conference
  • Join us for Portfolio Day 2018
  • Working with communities
  • Behind Truth and Beauty: Paper Conservation
  • Student Blog: University of Hong Kong
  • Art conservation and new technologies
  • Student Blog: Harry Ransom Center
  • Student Blog: Winterthur Museum
  • Expedition photos bring ARTC student to Safari Museum
  • Preserving culture
  • Student Blog: Historic Preservation
  • Art conservation and aging technologies
  • ARTC photo conservation workshop in the UK
  • Humanities for All
  • Student Blog: Library of Congress
  • Student Blog: Philadelphia Museum of Art
  • Analysis and authenticity
  • Art conservation and the modern Michelangelo
  • Art conservation and interdisciplinary research
  • IICAH archive joins collections at UD's Disaster Research Center
  • Photo heritage TEDx talk now available online
  • The work of emerging conservation professionals
  • Student Blog: Outdoor Sculpture
  • Twitter, emojis, and the 10 agents of deterioration
  • International field-based partnerships
  • Conservation of a Pollock
  • Finding hidden details in a Tiepolo masterpiece
  • In Memoriam: Bruno Pouliot
  • Alison Award winner
  • ARTC Chair is 2018 Alison Award winner
  • NPR spotlight on WUDPAC project
  • Art conservation and preserving young love
  • Art conservation and filling in the gaps
  • Teaching photograph conservation in Cuba
  • Student Blog: Museum of Modern Art
  • Art conservation and historical remedies
  • Art conservation and delicate decoration
  • NEH grant supports WUDPAC students
  • Garments of genocide
  • Student Blog: The Morgan Library & Museum
  • Art conservation and preserving portraiture
  • Unexpected connections in natural and presidential history
  • Dr. Joelle Wickens named WUDPAC Associate Director
  • Preserving game day treasures
  • Reviving a Relic
  • Tiny pirate papers
  • Blackbeard's reading habits
  • Student Blog: Walters Art Museum
  • Conservation detectives
  • PSP student receives peer recognition award
  • Art conservation and historical repairs
  • Pollock gets a public cleaning
  • Call for proposals: Krill and Fiske Awards
  • Student Blog: The Barnes Foundation
  • Art conservation and American portraiture
  • Preserving works on paper
  • Mellon Foundation grant to support library and archives conservation
  • Student Blog: Yale University Art Gallery
  • Behind the scenes in Baltimore
  • Training the next generation of conservators
  • Student Blog: Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis
  • Art conservation and historical documents
  • Art conservation and supporting history
  • Participatory cultural mapping in Delaware
  • Students showcase research
  • Art conservation and encouraging diversity
  • Student Blog: Philadelphia Museum of Art
  • Washington slept here
  • Preserving tiny evidence
  • ARTC students participate in largest-ever undergraduate research and service symposium
  • Murals bloom again thanks to UD students
  • Art conservation and sunken treasure
  • Student Blog: Chinese export lacquer
  • Art conservation and contemporary puzzles
  • Treatment of a soldier's certificate
  • Student Blog: University of Virginia
  • A fascination with fossils
  • Conserving cultural heritage
  • Connected by a thread
  • Unpacking Frank Lloyd Wright
  • Student Blog: Mauritshuis Dutch Royal Cabinet of Paintings
  • Art conservation and views from abroad
  • WUDPAC Fellow among UD's Fulbright scholars
  • Art conservation and wearable documents
  • Student Blog: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
  • Student Blog: Arizona State Museum
  • Art conservation students clean DRBA painting now on display
  • Teaching the conservation of modern and contemporary art in Peru
  • Art conservation and family connections
  • Conservation of a decorated Victorian mansion
  • The fight to save cultural heritage in crisis
  • A new look for mural
  • Art conservation and family craftsmanship
  • Student Blog: J. Paul Getty Museum
  • Student Blog: Studying Art Abroad
  • Art conservation students stabilize historic photographs of explorers
  • Student Blog: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
  • Art conservation and piecing history together
  • Art conservation students gain hands-on experience at UD Library
  • Making collections visible
  • Art conservation and outdoor adventures
  • Making a case for museums
  • Art conservation and preserving the journey
  • Materials Information & Technical Resources for Artists now online
  • Student Blog: Metal Conservation at the Rijksmuseum's Ateliergebouw
  • WUDPAC alumnus brings scientific analysis to Sotheby's
  • Master Class in UD Research
  • Art conservation team in Cuba
  • Paper Marbling: Exploring Traditional Patterns and Techniques
  • Art conservation and seeking hidden treasure
  • Student Blog: Rijksmuseum
  • Student Blog: In search of historical graffiti
  • Student Blog: Hamburger Kunsthalle
  • Art conservation and architectural history
  • Student Blog: Penn Museum
  • Art conservation and bygone modernity
  • Preserving natural disasters
  • Not Your Average Cleaning
  • Champion of the humanities
  • Student Blog: Denver Art Museum
  • Art conservation and the markings of time
  • The conservation detective
  • NEH grant
  • Promoting arts, humanities
  • New 'Explorer'
  • Engaging humanities
  • Focus on conservation
  • Boxes of history
  • Mellon challenge grant
  • Not-so-Old Masters
  • Combining theory, practice
  • International studies
  • Saving Medusa
  • Iraqi Institute grows
  • June 6-9:Symposium
  • Bird in the hand
  • 'A Lasting Legacy'
  • Preserving ancient culture
  • Picture perfect
  • CAA researchers
  • Netherlands connection
  • Mural shines again
  • The science of art
  • A summer to treasure
  • test
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