From now through the end of January, the American Institute for Conservation is holding its first wiki "edit-a-thon" event to raise awareness of the platform, encourage participation, and add to the content already on the AIC wiki. This is an excellent opportunity for emerging conservators to contribute to this dynamic new resource.
The WUDPAC Scholarship Committee is soliciting nominations for the annual John Krill Advanced Scholarship Award in Paper Conservation and Connoisseurship and the Betty Fiske Professional Development Award in Asian or Contemporary Art Preservation.
As part of the UD Art History Department's 2011-2012 lecture series, Corine Wegener, Associate Curator of Decorative Arts, Textiles, and Sculpture at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts presents “Beyond the Iraq Museum: Protecting our Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis.”
Join us in the Rotunda for the first of two talks today by Steven Weintraub, founder of Art Preservation Services, Inc. This first talk will focus on new approaches to collections lighting.
Return with us for Mr. Weintraub's second presentation of the day, in which he will discuss his involvement with the National September 11 Memorial and Museum in New York City.
In October, WUDPAC alumna Laura Kubick joined the Indianapolis Museum of Art's conservation department as Assistant Conservator of Objects and Variable Art. In her recent entry on the museum's blog, Laura introduces the many staff members involved in the examination and analysis of an artwork.
The WUDPAC Scholarship Committee is soliciting nominations for the Annual WUDPAC John Krill Advanced Scholarship Award in Paper Conservation and Connoisseurship and the Betty Fiske Professional Development Award in Asian or Contemporary Art Preservation. Deadline is February 15, 2012.
Nora Kennedy, the Sherman Fairchild Conservator of Photographs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and a WUDPAC alumna, has been selected as the recipient of the 2011 Hewlett-Packard Image Permanence Award, in recognition of her leadership role in raising awareness of image permanence issues.
A new list of blogs about U.S. contemporary conservation projects, compiled by Richard McCoy, Conservator of Objects & Variable Art at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, for his Art21 "No Preservatives: Conversations on Conservation" blog series.
WUDPAC Class of 2012 Fellow Allison Holcomb discusses the conservation methodology and treatment of the variety of objects under the care of the Weissman Preservation Center at Harvard University, including her recent work on an illustrated pop-up book from the university's Emily Dickinson Collection.
WUDPAC Class of 2012 Fellow Sarah Gowen discusses her third-year internship in the public studios of the Smithsonian Institution's Lunder Conservation Center, including the discoveries she made during the X-radiography of an early 20th-century landscape painting by American Impressionist John F. Folinsbee.
Dutch painted surfaces conservation student Willianne van der Sar has spent the past six months participanting in the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation, under the supervision of Richard Wolbers, UD associate professor and coordinator of science and adjunct paintings conservator at Winterthur Museum. UDaily interviewed van der Sar about what she is learning on her first trip to Delaware, both about art conservation and the U.S.
