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

Art conservation and hidden histories
When WUDPAC Fellow Amanda Kasman first examined the damaged painting of an unknown woman, it was covered in grime and too friable to turn over.
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Reflections on Portfolio Day 2019
A combination of project talks, tours, and discussions helped the crowd of prospective students explore their ideas about art conservation.
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Lock of Lizzie
A lock of hair from Elizabeth Siddal, the muse of Pre-Raphaelite painters, has traveled from UD to an exhibition at London's National Portrait Gallery.
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Art conservation and piecing together the past
WUDPAC Fellow Yan Ling Choi is studying a scrapbook of vignettes made of pictures cut from magazines, bits of ribbon or wallpaper, and scraps of foil and fabric.
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Nov
20
Summer Work Project Talk
Nov. 20th, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Winterthur Rotunda
Please join us in the Winterthur Rotunda as WUDPAC Fellow Amanda Kasman presents a talk on her summer internship at the Dallas Museum of Art in Dallas, TX.
Dec
4
Summer Work Project Talk
Dec. 4th, 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Winterthur Rotunda
Please join us in the Winterthur Rotunda as WUDPAC Fellow Sarah Towers presents a talk on her summer internships at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and at the Blaffer Foundation Center for Conservation, both located in Houston, TX.
Dec
11
Summer Work Project Talk
Dec. 11th, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Winterthur Rotunda
Please join us in the Winterthur Rotunda as WUDPAC Fellow Kate Acuna presents a talk on her summer internship at the Arizona State Museum in Tucson, AZ.

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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: English Heritage
In this blog post, WUDPAC Class of 2020 Fellow Melissa King discusses her interdisciplinary training in preventive conservation, including her work this past summer with conservation scientists at English Heritage charitable trust.
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Student Blog: Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library
In this blog post, HBCU Library Alliance Intern Layla Huff talks about her summer working with conservators and scientists on projects ranging from the analysis of Victorian-era bookcloths to the preservation of a lock of Pre-Raphaelite hair.
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