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09/09/2026

Since arriving in early August, WUDPAC ‘29 has begun to learn what it means to “hold it down” historic preservation style in the beautiful Brandywine Valley!

Save the date! This year’s Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation (WUDPAC) Portfolio Day prospect...
09/06/2026

Save the date! This year’s Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation (WUDPAC) Portfolio Day prospective student event will be held on Wednesday, October 14th at Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library. More details to come!

09/01/2026

📣HEY!📣

School is back in session, and WUDPAC students are back at Winterthur! WUDPAC ‘28 are now second year students and settling in nicely in their new labs. Follow along to see the cool projects and exciting seminars they have this year!

Congratulations to the WUDPAC Class of 2026! 🌟Yesterday they delivered some incredible final oral presentations to close...
08/12/2026

Congratulations to the WUDPAC Class of 2026! 🌟

Yesterday they delivered some incredible final oral presentations to close out their graduate journeys 🎓🥳✨

Throughout their summer away from Winterthur, WUDPAC ‘28 did some color hunting! Check out the range of colors across th...
08/10/2026

Throughout their summer away from Winterthur, WUDPAC ‘28 did some color hunting! Check out the range of colors across these cities 🌈
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Objects major Luca Denegre is spending the second half of his third year internship at the Brooklyn Museum, under the su...
07/06/2026

Objects major Luca Denegre is spending the second half of his third year internship at the Brooklyn Museum, under the supervision of objects conservator Kate Wight Tyler (WUDPAC ‘09), chief conservator Lisa Bruno (WUDPAC ‘93), and assistant objects conservators Mike Galardi, Celeste Mahoney, and Isabel Schneider.

Since January, Luca has treated a variety of objects and materials and assisted with activities in the lab, including gallery maintenance for Judy Chicago’s “The Dinner Party”, installation of a work in the exhibition “Iris Van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses” and the filling and inpainting of a polyurethane foam “Capitello” chair designed by Studio 65. Kate and Isabel recently presented on their treatment of the chair and their tailored foamed methyl cellulose fill recipe at AIC in Montreal.

Independent treatment projects have included Egyptian ceramic and stone objects, Cree embroidered hide mittens, and a painted child’s table from the 1920s. Luca’s next project is a 1980s plastic Enorme Telephone, designed by Ettore Sottsass, founder of the Memphis Group. Recently, 500 original unopened Enorme Telephones were discovered in California, bringing this object back into the limelight. Having been stored since the 80s, styrofoam from the original packaging has become stuck to the surface of the PVC phone cord. Treatment will include documentation of the phone and original packaging, testing removal of the styrofoam residues, and determining appropriate long term storage for the object. Luca hopes to work with time based media intern Babs Chernyavsky (Buffalo ‘28) to record the sounds of the phone, such as the ringtone and button beeps for future use by the museum.

Image 1: Luca helping with gallery maintenance of Judy Chicago’s “The Dinner Party”.

Image 2: Luca Denegre and co-intern Halina Piasecki (NYU ‘26), assisting project conservator Isabel Schneider with the treatment of “Capitello”.

Image 3: "Enorme Telephone". Ettore Sottsass Jr., David Kelley, Designed 1986. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Jean Pigozzi, 2025.47. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

Image 4: Before treatment photo of "Enorme Telephone" cord in original packaging, with styrofoam residues

🇺🇸✂️🧵 Congratulations to art conservation alum Philip De Paola (BA '20) on this stunning achievement! 🇺🇸✂️🧵
06/26/2026

🇺🇸✂️🧵 Congratulations to art conservation alum Philip De Paola (BA '20) on this stunning achievement! 🇺🇸✂️🧵

✨Purple never goes out of style. ✨Congratulations to undergraduate art conservation alumnus Philip de Paola on his amazi...
06/03/2026

✨Purple never goes out of style. ✨Congratulations to undergraduate art conservation alumnus Philip de Paola on his amazing recreation of George Washington's inaugural suit for Morristown National Historical Park! De Paola studied the suit as part of his master’s qualifying work at the Fashion Institute of Technology, drafted the pattern, and hand-sewed it from custom-woven silk from Whitchurch Silk Mill.
Bravo, Philip!!! History has its eyes on you!👏🇺🇸🧵✨

05/26/2026

📣WUDPAC ‘28 Major Reveals!!📣

After completing their first year and going through the blocks, WUDPAC ‘28 has declared their majors! Congratulations to them and we look forward to seeing what they accomplish this summer and next year!

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303 Old College, University Of
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Monday 11:30am - 12:30pm
Tuesday 11:30am - 12:30pm
Wednesday 11:30am - 7:30pm
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