Art Conservation

TREATMENT SKILLS
Stabilizing loose paint on a vandalized painting
TREATMENT SKILLS
Inpainting fills on a 17th-century tin-glazed earthenware pot
RESEARCH SKILLS
Examining a handwritten Koran from Gambia
RESEARCH SKILLS
Sampling paint from a mural in Boston's Ames-Webster Mansion
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS
XRF analysis of suspected metal toning on an uncased daguerreotype
ACADEMIC COURSEWORK
Studying the process of cellulose degradation
TREATMENT SKILLS
Applying a custom paper pulp fill
GRADUATE INTERNSHIPS
Reactivating consolidant and setting down paint at the Smithsonian’s Lunder Conservation Center
CONSERVATION OUTREACH
2018 summer program for students from historically black colleges and universities
CONSERVATION OUTREACH
Preserving images of African American service members, from the Fisk University Collection
GRADUATE INTERNSHIPS
Reconstructing a ceramic vessel at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
GRADUATE INTERNSHIPS
Using lasers to reduce mortar on the surface of an Assyrian relief at the Brooklyn Museum
GRADUATE INTERNSHIPS
Cleaning a 15th-century marble bust at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
GRADUATE INTERNSHIPS
Repairing the looped rim of a Skokomish cedar root basket at the American Museum of Natural History
UNDERGRADUATE INTERNSHIPS
Treating an American history diorama from Tuskegee University Collections

Kress Reconstruction Project Materials Information/MITRA American Institute for Conservation ANAGPIC Papers

Revisions to 2021 WUDPAC admissions requirements
Owing to the global pandemic, amendments to our admission requirements will be in place for applications due January 15, 2021.
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Attics and Basements and Closets, Oh My! Part 20: Musical Instruments
The last post in our series about caring for your family heirlooms looks at the preservation of musical instruments.
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In Memorium: Dr. Vicki Cassman
It is with great sadness that we share the news that Professor Emerita Vicki Cassman passed away on August 6, 2020.
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Attics and Basements and Closets, Oh My! Part 19: Gilded Frames
This week's post focuses on caring for the gilded frames that protect and display our pictures, mirrors, textiles, and other objects.
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Class of 2020 Final Presentations, part one
Aug. 18th, 9:00 AM to 12:15 PM
Traditionally, our ten third-year Fellows in the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation return to Winterthur in August to present formal illustrated lectures about their internship experiences. This year, as we all work from home, the students in the Class of 2020 will make their presentations online. We look forward to learning more about their third year of study and their 2019 summer internships and hope you will join us on August 18 and 19. If you would like to receive information about attending the Class of 2020 virtual presentations, please contact Susan Behrens in our office at (302) 831-8236 or by email at behrens@udel.edu. All are welcome! A full schedule of the presentations is available on the ART website at https://www.artcons.udel.edu/news/Pages/Class-of-2020-final-presentations-to-be-held-online.aspx
Aug
19
Class of 2020 Final Presentations, part two
Aug. 19th, 9:00 AM to 12:40 PM
Traditionally, our ten third-year Fellows in the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation return to Winterthur in August to present formal illustrated lectures about their internship experiences. This year, as we all work from home, the students in the Class of 2020 will make their presentations online. We look forward to learning more about their third year of study and their 2019 summer internships and hope you will join us on August 18 and 19. If you would like to receive information about attending the Class of 2020 virtual presentations, please contact Susan Behrens in our office at (302) 831-8236 or by email at behrens@udel.edu. All are welcome! A full schedule of the presentations is available on the ART website at https://www.artcons.udel.edu/news/Pages/Class-of-2020-final-presentations-to-be-held-online.aspx

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Since 2009, the University of Delaware has been awarded a series of grants from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation to support the design and creation of digital and physical historically accurate reconstructions of selected paintings from the Kress Collection. Use of these didactics and associated lesson plans, as well as sample sets of historic pigments and their raw materials available upon request from the Kress Foundation, will inform and inspire scholars, students, and the general public about the making of art and the value of technical art history…

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Student Blogs

Student Blog: Preserving textile traditions
In this blog post, doctoral candidate Reyhane Mirabootalebi talks about her research on Middle Eastern traditional textiles and her journey in UD's Preservation Studies Program.
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Student Blog: Rijksmuseum
In this blog post, WUDPAC Class of 2020 Fellow Tracy Liu shares her experience in the conservation studios of the Rijksmuseum, including her research and treatment of a 16th-century Dutch panel painting.
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