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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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 raising the sails
This year, WUDPAC Fellow Katelyn Rovito is gaining an appreciation for maritime paintings and the conservation challenges they present.
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Preserving the tangible and intangible
In a post on the Textile Society of America website, WUDPAC Class of 2022 Fellow Annabelle Camp explores the significance of objects to community and culture.
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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.
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.

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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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