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
Loss compensation on a 16th-century maiolica bust at the Cleveland Museum of Art
UNDERGRADUATE INTERNSHIPS
Treating an American history diorama from Tuskegee University Collections
GRADUATE INTERNSHIPS
Examining Jan de Bray's "Judith and Holofernes" at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam

Kress Reconstruction Project Materials Information/MITRA American Institute for Conservation ANAGPIC Papers

WUDPAC student receives Fulbright Program award
Julianna Ly (WUDPAC Class of 2020) is one of seven UD students and alumni to receive awards this year from the nation’s premier international education exchange program.
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Art conservation and historical documents
A thick stack of brittle papers covered in dense Arabic writings helped WUDPAC Fellow Karissa Muratore study the scientific instruments and techniques used in conservation.
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What does a museum scientist do?
A series of blog posts sheds light on the varied work of scientists, faculty, and volunteers at Winterthur's ARTC-affiliated Scientific Research and Analysis Laboratory.
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The life of an emerging conservator
Class of 2018 WUDPAC alumna Claire Taggart's work at Tate London is featured in ICON NEWS, The Magazine of the Institute of Conservation.
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Class of 2019 final presentations
Aug. 20th, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Winterthur Rotunda
Our third-year WUDPAC Fellows return to Winterthur to present formal illustrated lectures about their internship experiences. During this past year, these students worked in laboratories and cultural sites throughout the world. Their presentations will describe ten different journeys that will demonstrate the preservation of the arts and material culture. The works they treated included material culture reaching back almost two millennia; their treatments have been scientific and innovative, advancing our understanding of art materials and their preservation. Presentations from 9 AM to 4:30 PM, with a reception to follow. Please contact Susan Behrens in our office at (302) 831-8236 or by email at behrens@udel.edu if you can attend.

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>> Visit the Kress Reconstruction Project site

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: Lunder Conservation Center
In this blog post, WUDPAC Class of 2019 Fellow Keara Teeter discusses her treatment and outreach activities as an intern at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Lunder Conservation Center.
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Student Blog: Time-Based Media
In this blog post, WUDPAC Class of 2019 Fellow Nick Kaplan discusses the conservation and preservation of time-based media undertaken during his internship at Small Data Industries.
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