Q: What exactly do you do at the MFA? I’m a paintings conservator, which means I care for and treat paintings on canvas, panel, and sometimes wall paintings. We don’t really use the word “restore” anymore b ecause it can have some shady connotation and we don’t want to be seen that way! Our goal is preservation and careful treatment, not making something look “brand new.” I specialize in traditional paintings—oil and tempera works from earlier centuries. Modern and contempora