The PST ART Climate Impact Program (CIP) is indebted to the leadership of LHL Consulting and the unflagging commitment of founding codirectors Laura Lupton and Debra Scacco, who authored the comprehensive research findings on which this impact report is based. Their vision made the CIP a reality, and Getty and its partners remain forever grateful for their thoughtful guidance, creativity, and resolve.
A number of Getty staff were crucial to the CIP’s success: Heather MacDonald, Senior Program Officer, Getty Foundation; Zach Kaplan, Public Programming, Getty PST ART; Camille Kirk, Head of Sustainability, J. Paul Getty Trust; Lu Spriggs, PST ART, Communications, J. Paul Getty Trust; and Tina Lee, PST ART Project Manager. The team at Polskin Arts, especially Meagan Jones and Maura Klosterman-Vu, also provided invaluable support.
The CIP advisors circle helped shape the program and informed many conversations over the years: Kelsey Shell, Environmental & Sustainability Strategist, MOCA; Whitney McGuire, Former Associate Director of Sustainability, Guggenheim; Noam Freshman, Sustainability Communications Advisor; Lilian Liu, Sustainability & Climate Strategist, formerly at the United Nations, Futerra, and Braze; Caitlin Southwick, Founder and Executive Director, Ki Culture; and Jodi Roberts, Cofounder Art + Climate Action and Director, MarinMOCA.
The members of Climate Collective of Los Angeles Museums (CCLAM) offered valuable support, guidance, and leadership. Thanks to Jean-Pascal Coutelen (LACMA), Aurora van Zoelen (LACMA), Juli Shulz (formerly Academy), Peter Kneizovich (Academy), Camille Kirk (Getty), Kelsey Shell (MOCA), Amanda Sroka (ICALA), Danielle Hill (Armory Center for the Arts), Megan Dickerson (Birch Aquarium), Michael Nock (Hammer Museum), and Heidrun Mumper Drumm (ArtCenter).
Getty and LHL also want to acknowledge the community of like-minded organizations and individuals in the sector that has fostered this work. Thanks in particular to all of the member organizations of PACT: Art into Acres, Art + Climate Action, Art/Switch Foundation, Artists Commit, Creative Migration, Galleries Commit, Gallery Climate Coalition, and Ki Culture.
Johan Kritzinger and Louise Cary at Crozier gave significant attention to working out a sea freight shuttle option for PST ART. Annika Erikson and Stacey Ferguson from Articheck helped coordinate special Virtual Courier offers for our cohort. Cliodhna Murphy and Carl Johns at Hauser & Wirth’s Downtown Los Angeles gallery generously hosted an October 2024 Show & Tell event for CIP participants to share their work with each other and the larger PST ART community.
CIP events featured numerous guest speakers who generously shared their time and expertise, helping to build what we hope to be lasting relationships. This list includes: Alicia Pillar (Artist); Haley Mellin (Artist / Founder, Art Into Acres / Co-Founder, MOCA Environmental Council); Cecilia Winter (Getty Conservation Institute); Vincent Beltran, (Getty Conservation Institute); Sarah Nunberg (Principal Investigator, Sustainability Tools in Cultural Heritage-STiCH); Rita Kampalath (Chief Sustainability Officer, Los Angeles County); Eugene Shirley (Founding President and CEO, Pando Populus); Julian Dautremont (Co-Founder, Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education); Whitney McGuire (Associate Director of Sustainability, Guggenheim); Lilian Liu (Sustainability & Climate Strategist, formerly the UN, Futerra, and Braze); Noam Freshman (Sustainability Communications Strategist, Futerra); Kim Conaty, (Nancy and Steve Crown Family Chief Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art); sage donahue (Exhibition Coordinator, Whitney Museum of American Art); Roxanne Smith (Senior Curatorial Assistant, Whitney Museum of American Art); Jeff Kleeman and Natalie Ferguson (Studio Sereno); and Elizabeth Norwood (Coordinator, Gallery Climate Coalition Carbon Calculator).
In closing, this report is dedicated to the partners who took a chance and opted into the first-ever Climate Impact Program for PST ART. Getty and LHL deeply appreciate and admire your ingenuity and dedication to making exhibition practices more sustainable. Thank you, and here’s to continued climate action for PST ART 2030.