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​The Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation will receive almost $600,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support a collaborative project with two other programs in the area of library and archives conservation education.
From the November 16 article by Ann Manser for UDaily:
The
foundation awarded a total of $2.1 million to the State
University of New York (SUNY) Buffalo State, which will distribute the
funds. Sharing the grant will be Buffalo State’s Patricia H. and Richard
E. Garman Art Conservation Department, WUDPAC and the Conservation
Center at New York University’s (NYU) Institute of Fine Arts. Over the
eight-year grant period, beginning in October 2017, WUDPAC
will receive $598,000 to support such educational activities as student
fellowships, specialized workshops and travel among the participating
institutions. The grant is intended to further a collaborative project
that will
address the preservation needs of library and archives collections
across the U.S. and educate the next generation of conservators. . . .
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“We are extremely grateful to the Mellon Foundation
for their support
of this consortium,” said Patrick Ravines, director of the Garman Art
Conservation Department. “I am deeply honored by the foundation’s
ongoing trust in our commitment to educate the next generation of
conservators. Even as our society grows more digitized, we need to find
effective ways to conserve the tangible books, maps, documents and
photographs that comprise our collective history and cultural heritage.”
Debra Hess Norris, Unidel Henry Francis du Pont Chair in Fine Arts
and WUDPAC director at UD, also thanked the Mellon Foundation for what
she called an “inspired investment” in the LACE [Library and Archives
Conservation Education] consortium. . . .Melissa Tedone, who is book and
library conservator at Winterthur and
a WUDPAC affiliated faculty member, said the “generous funding from the
Mellon Foundation recognizes library and archives conservation’s place
among its sister specialties in the art conservation training programs.”
To read the full UDaily article and learn more about the LACE consortium, click here.
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