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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Art conservation and clippings from history
In 1862, David Fox Nelson escaped slavery. His scrapbooks have become a treatment project for WUDPAC Fellow Nylah Byrd.
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On the front edge of discovery
The work of PSP doctoral student Sanchita Balachandran is featured in UD's Research magazine, as she uncovers hidden clues in ancient Greek ceramics.
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Conserving Cuzco School Paintings
A new video from The Metropolitan Museum of Art features the work of WUDPAC alumnus José Luis Lazarte Luna.
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Mar
3
Students' Choice Seminar
Mar. 3rd, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Please join us as Minah Song, independent conservator in Washington, DC, gives a special presentation on Asian papers used in conservation, entitled "Interpreting Asian Papers: A Balanced Approach." 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.
Mar
10
Students' Choice Seminar
Mar. 10th, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Please join us as Heidi Swierenga, Senior Conservator and the Head of the Collections Care and Access Department at the Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver (MOA), leads a panel of MOA staff in a discussion on working with indigenous communities: "Off the Mount: A Discussion on Activating Objects and Belongings." 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.
Mar
17
Students' Choice Seminar
Mar. 17th, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Please join us as Rabbi Linda Motzkin gives a special presentation about the process of making a Torah and her work with the Community Torah Project: "The Making of a Torah Scroll." 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.
Apr
5
Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Apr. 5th, 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Please join us on Zoom for a dissertation proposal presentation by UD Preservation Studies Program doctoral student Aidi Bao: "The Re-invention of Guqin Craquelure: The Making and Collecting of Guqin in Late Ming China, 1500-1700.” Please email Theresa Slusser at tslusser@udel.edu for information on joining the Zoom meeting.
Apr
7
Students' Choice Seminar
Apr. 7th, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Please join us as Margaret Rose Vendryes, Chair of Performing and Fine Arts, Professor of Art History, and Director of the Fine Arts Gallery, York College (City University of New York), gives a special presentation on her work as an artist and an art historian of African American Art: "Black Beauty Matters: The African Diva Project." This year's Students' Choice talks will be held on Zoom. If you would like to 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: University of Chicago Library
WUDPAC Class of 2021 Fellow Yungjin Shin talks about her internship at the University of Chicago Library, the lining treatment of ten 19th-century maps, and preparing a workshop on Korean side-stitched book bindings.
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Student Blog: Midwest Art Conservation Center
WUDPAC Class of 2021 Fellow Madeline Cooper talks about her internship at the Midwest Art Conservation Center and working in the collaborative and fast-paced environment of regional centers.
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