Conversation with Elizabeth Wylie

ABOUT ELIZABETH WYLIE

Elizabeth Wylie is a writer, strategist, and Principal of WYLIE, a consulting practice serving the museum, preservation, and art communities. Wylie focuses on sustainability in the cultural sector including how advocates and artists are taking action.

Trained as an art historian, she worked as curator and director in art museums for over 20 years before embarking on a new career in business development for architects specializing in preservation, adaptive use, and sustainable design. She is the co-author of “The Green Museum: A Primer on Environmental Practice” (widely regarded as an early and seminal handbook on green approaches for museums, aquaria, zoos, botanical gardens, and historic sites) as well as dozens of articles and presentations on the subject.

Wylie draws upon global examples of activism and action in the cultural sector to show how museums are modeling change and how artists are opening eyes.