The Center for Material Culture Studies (CMCS) at the University of Delaware is excited to announce the growth of ThingStor: A Material Culture Database for Finding Objects in Literature & Visual Art. Developed by a… Read More
WANTED: 1,000 OBJECTS!
Category: Announcements
2019 Conference: “Black Bibliographia: Print/Culture/Art,”
“Black Bibliographia: Print/Culture/Art” April 26-27, 2019 University of Delaware A symposium hosted by the Center for Material Culture Studies in collaboration with UD Library, Museums & Press and the College of Arts & Sciences’… Read More
2018 Delphi
With support provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities, fourteen ten-week summer fellowships were awarded to MA and PhD students in the arts, humanities, and social sciences pursuing research in material culture studies, broadly defined… Read More
Hagley Library 2018 Internship Opportunity
Hagley Museum and Library Department of Audiovisual Collections and Digital Initiatives 2018 Internship: John Margolies Travel Ephemera and Better Living Photographs The Project The Hagley Library’s Department of Audiovisual Collections and Digital Initiatives (AVD) is… Read More
WANTED: 1,000 OBJECTS!
The Center for Material Culture Studies (CMCS) at the University of Delaware is excited to announce the growth of ThingStor: A Material Culture Database for Finding Objects in Literature & Visual Art. Developed by a… Read More
Attention Graduate Students! 4 Slots Available in British Design History Course (January 2018), Deadline October 4
With generous support from the Office of Graduate and Professional Studies (OGPE) and the Center for Material Culture Studies (CMCS), the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture is able to offer up to 4 slots… Read More
João Petisca Featured on “Conversant” Blog
Recent DELPHI participant and Ph.D candidate in Preservation Studies at the University of Delaware, João Petisca was asked to write for the Phillips Library/Peabody Essex Museum’s blog, Conversant. In her blog post, she writes about her summer in Salem,… Read More
Inaugural Finkel Fellowship Recipient, Spencer Wigmore
Spencer Wigmore is a doctoral candidate in the department of Art History at the University of Delaware. Studying 19th century American art, he specializes in American and European landscape painting and photography. His dissertation “Albert… Read More
Chipstone Object Lab 8.0
Object Lab 8.0 When: June 5-9, 2016 Where: The Chipstone Foundation, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Object Lab is a material studies program organized and funded by the Chipstone Foundation for third and fourth year undergraduate students. It… Read More
Debra Hess Norris Wins National Preservation Award
Debra Hess Norris, the Unidel Henry Francis du Pont Chair in Fine Arts and the chair of the Department of Art Conservation at UD, has received the 2016 award for distinction in scholarship and conservation.… Read More