Art Conservation

Please join us as WUDPAC and LACE Fellow Jessica Ortegon presents a talk on their summer activities in Wilmington, “Book History from the Kitchen Table.” This year’s SWP talks will be held on Zoom. If you would like attend, please contact Theresa Slusser at tslusser@udel.edu for more information. 

Please join us as WUDPAC Fellow Margalit Schindler presents a talk on their summer preventive conservation activities in Wilmington, “Systems Thinking, Scatterplots, Social Justice and Shabbat: A Summer of Growing Soft Skills.” This year’s SWP talks will be held on Zoom. If you would like attend, please contact Theresa Slusser at tslusser@udel.edu for more information. 

Presented by Preservation Delaware and UD's Center for Historic Architecture & Design (CHAD), PSP students Michael Emmons (Assistant Director, CHAD) and Catherine Morrissey will be moderating and hosting this roundtable event and discussion. Panel participants include Dr. Sarah Beetham (UD '14; Chair of Liberal Arts and Assistant Professor of Art History at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts), Dr. Cheryl Gooch (history scholar and former Dean of Humanities at Gainesville State College, Lincoln University, and Cumberland/Rowan College of South Jersey), Dr. Scott Hancock (Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies at Gettysburg College), and William Hosley (principal at Terra Firma Northeast). This event is free and open to the public. Register for this online Zoom event at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/120869238145 

Please join us as WUDPAC Fellow Abigail Rodriguez presents a talk on her summer internship at Adam Jenkins Conservation Services, LLC (Philadelphia, PA), “Finding Space for Healing: A Balancing Act of Passion and Preservation.” This year’s SWP talks will be held on Zoom. If you would like attend, please contact Theresa Slusser at tslusser@udel.edu for more information. 

As part of our virtual Portfolio Day 2020, please join us for two presentations: WUDPAC Fellow Nylah Byrd will present a talk on her summer internship at the African American Museum of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, PA), “What I Actually Did This Summer: Rehousing and Social Justice,” and WUDPAC Fellow Annabelle Camp will present a talk on her summer internship at Colonial Williamsburg (Williamsburg, VA), “Death Head Buttons and Custom Dyeing: A Lively Summer in Textile Conservation Lab at Colonial Williamsburg.” This year’s SWP talks will be held on Zoom. If you would like attend, please contact Theresa Slusser at tslusser@udel.edu for more information.