Art Conservation

UNDERGRADUATE INTERNSHIPS
Treating an American history diorama from Tuskegee University Collections
TREATMENT SKILLS
Inpainting fills on a 17th-century tin-glazed earthenware pot
TREATMENT SKILLS
Stabilizing loose paint on a vandalized painting
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 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, 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 a Skokomish cedar root basket at the American Museum of Natural History

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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Graduate programs respond to COVID-19
AIC's Emerging Conservation Professionals Network has an updated list of revised admissions requirements for North American programs in conservation.
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Giving an officer's coat new life
At Colonial Williamsburg, WUDPAC Fellow Annabelle Camp followed a traditional thread wrapping pattern to bring back the original look of an officer's buttons.
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Conserving the curriculum
Learn how UD’s art conservation team finds creative ways to teach during COVID-19.
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Nov
4
Summer Work Project Talk
Nov. 4th, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Please join us as WUDPAC Fellow Allison Kelley presents a talk on her summer internship at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond, VA), “How Do You Measure A Summer? A Summation of Objects Treatment, Systems Seminars, and Safety First.” 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.
Nov
11
Denise Thomas/Faith Zieske Memorial Lecture
Nov. 11th, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Please join us for a special lecture by Elmer Eusman, Chief of the Conservation Division at the Library of Congress, "Taking Stock and Finding Prospective — Facts and Flops in a Conservation Career.” This special lecture will be held on Zoom. If you would like attend, please contact Theresa Slusser at tslusser@udel.edu for more information.
Nov
18
Summer Work Project Talk
Nov. 18th, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Please join us as WUDPAC Fellow Katelyn Rovito presents a talk on her participation in a Health and Safety in the Art Studio workshop led by Monona Rossol and her summer internship at Colonial Williamsburg (Williamsburg, VA), “Cross-Sections of My Summer in 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.
Dec
2
Summer Work Project Talk
Dec. 2nd, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Please join us as WUDPAC Fellow Kris Knossen presents a talk on their participation in UD’s DelPHI program and their summer internship with the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation (New York, NY), “Sheer Will: Considering Access During A Global Pandemic and the Creation of a Fabric Identification Resource for the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation.” 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.
Dec
9
Summer Work Project Talk
Dec. 9th, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Please join us as WUDPAC Fellow Magdalena Solano presents a talk on her summer internship at the Dallas Museum of Art (Dallas, TX), “Identity and Illusions.” 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.

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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: Smithsonian's Lunder Conservation Center
In this blog post, WUDPAC Class of 2021 Fellow Amanda Kasman shares her internship experience at the Lunder Conservation Center working with the paintings of William Henry Johnson from the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
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Student Blog: Colonial Williamsburg
In this blog post, WUDPAC Class of 2021 Fellow Marie Desrochers talks about starting her preventive conservation internship with the Historic Interiors Collections Care staff at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
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