Soraya Alcala of the MFA Houston joins Roxy for a conversation about her institution’s involvement in the multinational project: HORIZONS Greenart. MFAH joins the TATE, LACMA and the MET in a crowd-sourcing experiment of new materials for paintings, paper, and objects conservation, often trialing the same treatment on works by the same artist.

From establishing a collective agreement on the meaning of a ‘green’ solution to sharing feedback for the research and development team, she describes the value found in networks, collaboration, and clear communication. Soraya and Roxy excitedly discuss what it is like being on the assessment team of the project, reformulations of past recipes for gels vs brand new ones, and when the greater conservation field will have access to these trialed materials for their own labs.

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