Sarah Scaturro

Dr. Sarah Scaturro is the Eric and Jane Nord Chief Conservator at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Previously, she was the head of the conservation laboratory in the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the textile conservator and assistant curator of fashion at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Sarah has curated eight exhibitions on fashion and textile history at institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Most recently, she cocurated the 2025–26 exhibition American Printed Silks, 1927–1947 at the Cleveland Museum of Art. She has an MA from the Fashion Institute of Technology’s Fashion and Textile Studies: History, Theory, Museum Practice program and an MPhil and a PhD from Bard Graduate Center in decorative arts, design history, and material culture. Her work, which focuses on the intersection of fashion, textiles, and conservation, has been covered by numerous media outlets, including Vogue, The New York Times, The Guardian, Dressed: The History of Fashion podcast, and many more. Sarah is a professional associate of the American Institute for Conservation and an elected fellow of the International Institute for Conservation. She serves as an associate editor of the Journal of the American Institute for Conservation and a trustee of the Association of Dress Historians.