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​Welcome to THE DEPARTMENT OF

Art Conservation

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NEWS

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Join us for WUDPAC Portfolio Days 2024!

This year's Portfolio Days will be held as separate in-person and virtual events featuring presentations, tours, and the chance to view current students' application portfolios. All prospective applicants and advisors are welcome to attend!
 

Making space with the Alumni Professional Venture Fund

WUDPAC Class of 2021 alumna Sarah Towers used her funding to run a pilot program bringing woodworking and art conservation training to historically marginalized students.
 

Art conservation and historical service

The first time WUDPAC Fellow Gianna Puzzo saw the antiquated gas mask, it lay wedged beside a firefighter helmet on the bottom shelf of a display case at the University of Delaware Disaster Research Center.
 

Art conservation and world travelers

A late-19th-century Chinese folding fan with carved ivory sticks and thirty painted paper leaves is being treated this year by WUDPAC second-year Fellow Kacey Green, an objects major and paper minor.
 
STUDENT BLOGS

Student Blog: American Philosophical Society

In this blog post, WUDPAC Class of 2025 Fellow Brittany Murray talks about her summer spent with conservators at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, from working with parchment and prints to rebinding a 19th-century bible.
 
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​What is ​Art Cons​ervation?


​Art conservation is the field dedicated to preserving cultural property. Our cultural property is threatened by repeated exposure to a variety of detrimental factors, including excessive light, temperature, and humidity extremes, pests, pollutants, poor handling practices, natural disasters, and accidental damage. Learn more about our programs:

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UPCOMING EVENTS​

- Sep. 18th, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM

Student Summer Work Project Talk

Winterthur Rotunda
- Sep. 25th, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM

Student Summer Work Project Talk

Winterthur Rotunda
- Oct. 2nd, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM

Student Summer Work Project Talk

Winterthur's Copeland Lecture Hall
- Oct. 2nd, 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM

WUDPAC Portfolio Day

Copeland Lecture Hall, Winterthur Museum

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