Lauren Fly
Fine Arts Conservator and Collections Manager at The Fly Arts Initiative

Lauren Fly

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Lauren Fly is the founder of the Fly Arts Initiative, a fine art conservation and collections management practice based in New York City. After training at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts’ Conservation Center, she completed her postgraduate work in the Conservation of Easel Paintings at the Hamilton Kerr Institute at the University of Cambridge.

Her work has taken her to leading museums and conservation studios throughout the US, Scotland, England, and the Netherlands, where her practical work focused on the structural treatment of paintings on canvas. She has 20 years of experience in working with public and private institutions, and the private market, to care for their collections. Her passion for art and its care extends to issues of: best practice and standards, documentation, collections management, technical analysis, and promoting awareness of conservation.

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