💔Don't get too attached to this tape residue!💔Third year graduate fellow Joanna Hurd clears the adhesive left from aged pressure-sensitive tape on a suction platen by drawing solvents through the paper. The crusty orange residue is common, but the ease of clearing it is not!

First-year fellows are hard at work analyzing one of four projects for this year’s photo block: the Stephen Sprouse Archive from the Indianapolis Museum of Art! Included are 35mm color slides, Polaroids, and transparencies, which students will work to document and rehouse.📷

WUDPAC is thrilled to share it received $350,000 from National Endowment for the Humanities Preservation & Access Education and Training Grant! Funds will support our students and their work in cultural heritage preservation worldwide. We are immensely grateful to the NEH. #NEHGrant

Learn how students UD Art Conservation worked with Professor McGee & her class to conserve these photographs, stabilizing them for future study, & helping add to the body of knowledge about the Baltimore Collection Univ. of Delaware: x.com/UDelaware/stat… #BlackHistoryMonth

Kelly Krish, seen with Dr. Joelle Wickens, visited from the Image Permanance Institute to teach on environmental monitoring. The preventive majors observed moisture and air flow behind walls in the Winterthur spaces they are researching using an infrared reflectography camera! 📸

As part of Inorganics Block, the first-year graduate fellows visited the WheatonArts Glass Studio and Museum of American Glass last week where Skitch Manion, WheatonArts Glass Artist, demonstrated the process of glass blowing! Thank you to WheatonArts for being amazing hosts!

Conservator Tessa de Alarcon of the Penn Museum assisted grad student Kate Acuna of #WUDPAC UD Art Conservation earlier this week with documenting organic pseudomorphs on metal objects from the ancient site of Ur, Iraq.

Get an awesome look at @WinterthurMuse's conservation lab! We saw way too many members in the video to name everyone in one tweet, but features interviews from member Amanda Kasman of UD Art Conservation, Professional Associate Joy Gardiner, & Fellow Joyce Hill Stoner:

We hope you find some peace in this thread-by-thread tear mend, completed by second-year paintings fellow Isaac Messina on a landscape painting by Wilmington-DE-native Howard Pyle (ca.1900). While a few new threads are added as needed, this adds little to the painting overall.

🎨Throwing it back to just a couple of weeks ago when the first-year students were in the lab, in the midst of Inorganics Block! Using acrylic paint and medium, Rachel Bissonnette is inpainting a fill on a glazed earthenware plate.❤️

How have art conservators been spending time at home? Reply with your own bingo card answers, and make sure to tag us!🧶 #udartcon

Many are taking extra time at home as an opportunity to tackle personal preservation projects. UD Art Conservation students have created a series of articles with helpful tips on how to care for heirlooms & treasured belongings! Jumpstart your weekend projects: bit.ly/3diunfI

Calling all prospective students!

Our current Conservation Fellow and UD Art Conservation alum Joanna Hurd treated a WWI panorama of Black NCOs at a training camp that had been thrown in the trash and repaired with medical tape.

AIC & FAIC UD Art Conservation americanart "I really enjoy the inpainting stage of treatment because it is both mentally challenging and visually rewarding."—KT #AskAConservator

Please join us in celebrating the life and work of Dr. Vicki Cassman (1957-2020) by considering donating to the Vicki Cassman Undergraduate Award in Art Conservation. Read more about the fundraiser and Vicki's incredible contributions to the field here: udel.edu/alumni-friends…

Congratulations to Melissa King (WUDPAC 2020 - Preventive Conservation) on her new role! We look forward to seeing what she accomplishes. Melissa King

In this episode of Conservators Combating Climate Change, Nylah Byrd, Graduate Fellow in Objects Conservation UD Art Conservation, talks about a challenging topic with no easy answers: what it means to decolonize conservation practice. anchor.fm/conservatorsco… [1/2]

Curious about ways to fund environmental monitoring programs through grants? Hear some tips on managing the process from Maddie Cooper, NEH Fellow in Preventive Conservation of UD Art Conservation and MACC. bit.ly/3ttsrrJ