Howard Sutcliffe is the principal conservator and director of River Region Costume and Textile Conservation, a private practice with studios in Arley Alabama and Nashville Tennessee. River Region provides collection management advice, collection surveys and conservation treatment services for individual and institutional clients throughout the United States.
Howard holds a Post-graduate Diploma in textile conservation from the Textile Conservation Centre (TCC)/Courtauld Institute of Art and an MA in Museum and Gallery Management from City University, London. He has previously worked as the Head Textile Conservator at the Detroit Institute of Arts and in the textile conservation studios at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and American Textile History Museum in the US and at The National Trust and National Museums Liverpool in his native UK.
Howard is Professional Member of AIC and is a current board member of the North American Textile Conservation Conference.