Greening the art industry

Personally, my favorite thing to do in DC is to go to the Smithsonian Museums. Especially the art ones. However, I never really thought of about the carbon footprint that paintings and their exhibitions have. It turns out that paintings and traveling art exhibitions represent a huge carbon footprint with the frequency at which paintings travel and the methods of shipping paintings across the globe to buyers or museums. This week I came across the Gallery Climate Coalition in a New York Times article (link below), and this shifted my perspective about how exhibitions and art collectors' mindsets can have a positive environmental impact. Being a sustainably minded art collector or museum curator means that you have the power to choose for an environmentally friendly shipping method (like ground or ship rather than air), and that your money can shape the way that art market interacts with its carbon footprint. Featured in the New York Times Article, the Gallery Climate Coalition (GCC) was created in response to develop a meaningful and industry-specific response to the growing climate crisis. Finding about the GCC has been my favorite thing about climate I've read this week. Check out the Gallery Climate Coalition - https://bit.ly/3ycQ9wS Click here to read the NYT article on the steps the art world is taking to reduce its carbon footprint - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/23/arts/art-climate-change-environment.html Painting (one of my favorites at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC) : Mortlake Terrace (1827) by J. M. W. Turner #WeDontHaveTime #ClimateLove💚 #Art #Sustainability