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

Join us for Portfolio Day 2019
WUDPAC welcomes all pre-program candidates and advisors to the Class of 2022 Pre-Program Portfolio Display on Wednesday, October 16, 2019.
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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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Tips for promoting art conservation on social media
The newest issue of IIC's News in Conservation includes tips from three of the account managers for the WUDPAC Instagram account.
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Scoping out science
A new atomic force Raman microscope adds a state-of-the-art tool to UD's ability to examine a wide variety of materials at very high resolution.
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Oct
23
Summer Work Project Talk
Oct. 23rd, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Winterthur Rotunda
Please join us in the Winterthur Rotunda as WUDPAC Fellow Marie Desrochers presents a talk on her summer internship at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, MA.
Oct
30
Denise Thomas/Faith Zieske Memorial Lecture
Oct. 30th, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Winterthur Rotunda
Please join us in the Winterthur Rotunda for a special presentation from Grace Jan—the Yao Wenqing Chinese Painting Conservator at the Smithsonian Institution's Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery—on a comparison of Chinese Painting and Western Paper Conservation Techniques.
Nov
6
Summer Work Project Talk
Nov. 6th, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Winterthur Rotunda
Please join us in the Winterthur Rotunda as WUDPAC Fellow Yungjin Shin presents a talk on her summer internship at Harvard Library's Weissman Preservation Center in Cambridge, MA.
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.

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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: From Rauschenberg to Dürer, and back
In this blog post, WUDPAC Class of 2020 Fellow Jennifer Myers discusses applying her training to collections as wide-ranging as those from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Voices in Contemporary Art, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
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Student Blog: Rhode Island School of Design
In this blog post, UD undergraduate student Raychelle Osnato discusses her summer internship at the RISD Museum and her work on wide-ranging objects including Samuari artifacts, Windsor chairs, and transferware ceramics.
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