Art Conservation

TREATMENT SKILLS
Washing a printed 19th-century textile
TREATMENT SKILLS
Inpainting fills on a 17th-century tin-glazed earthenware pot
TREATMENT SKILLS
Assessing the treatment progress of a vandalized painting
RESEARCH SKILLS
Examining a handwritten Koran from Gambia
UNDERGRADUATE INTERNSHIPS
Treating an American history diorama from Tuskegee University Collections
RESEARCH SKILLS
Sampling paint from a mural in Boston's Ames-Webster Mansion
ACADEMIC COURSEWORK
Studying the process of cellulose degradation
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS
Examining a Netherlandish panel painting using a HIROX microscope
TREATMENT SKILLS
Applying a custom paper pulp fill
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

HenFunder: Vicki Cassman Undergraduate Award in Art Conservation
In cooperation with UD and ARTC, Vicki's past and present students are raising funds to support undergradation students in art conservation.
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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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Caring for Art during COVID-19
WUDPAC alumna and time-based media conservator Alexandra Nichols joins her Tate colleagues in a video about caring for collections during the pandemic.
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Art conservation and the life of a teapot
This year, WUDPAC Fellow Allison Kelley began work on a brightly colored, 18th-century painted enamel teapot acquired by Henry du Pont.
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Jan
27
Students' Choice Seminar
Jan. 27th, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Please join us as Christy Coleman, Executive Director of the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, gives a special presentation entitled “Progressive Museum Leadership: What Does it Look Like, How Do You Get It and What Are Their Impacts.” This year’s Students' Choice talks will be held on Zoom. If you would like attend, please contact Theresa Slusser at tslusser@udel.edu for more information.
Feb
3
Students' Choice Seminar
Feb. 3rd, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Please join us for a special presentation by president of Colonial Bindery and master bookbinder Ramon Townsend, who will discuss his work with the local community, his private practice in bookbinding, and bringing bookbinding to a larger audience in a talk entitled "The 18th-Century Bookbinder's Survival Guide to the 21st Century." This year’s Students' Choice talks will be held on Zoom. If you would like attend, please contact Theresa Slusser at tslusser@udel.edu for more information.
Feb
10
Students' Choice Seminar
Feb. 10th, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Please join us as Sarah Z. Gould, independent historian and curator focused on Latinx material culture, gives a special presentation about Latinx material culture and historic preservation. This year’s Students' Choice talks will be held on Zoom. If you would like attend, please contact Theresa Slusser at tslusser@udel.edu for more information.
Feb
18
Dissertation Defense
Feb. 18th, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Please join us on Zoom for a dissertation defense presentation by UD Preservation Studies Program doctoral candidate Reyhane Mirabootalebi: "Kurdish Flatweaves and Weavers: Cultural Interweaving and Unraveling." Please email Theresa Slusser at tslusser@udel.edu for information on joining the Zoom meeting.
Feb
24
Students' Choice Seminar
Feb. 24th, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Please join us as Camille Bethune-Brown, Director of Collections and Exhibits at the Women's Museum of California, gives a special presentation entitled “Decolonization and Accessibility.” This year’s Students' Choice 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: That’s the way the crockery crumbles
In this blog post, ARTC undergraduate student Nicholas Fandaros discusses his fall semester independent study examining ceramic objects, their treatment, and proper storage.
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Student Blog: Making project-specific tools
In this blog post, Class of 2021 ARTC major Sean Billups talks about his experience making project-specific tools for working with delicate, organic materials.
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