Sarah Scaturro is the Eric and Jane Nord Chief Conservator at the Cleveland Museum of Art where she is charge of the conservation and technical research areas. She was the Head Conservator of The Costume Institute in the Metropolitan Museum of Art from 2012 - 2020 and the Textile Conservator and Assistant Curator of Fashion at the Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum from 2006 - 2012. She publishes on the theory and history of textile and fashion conservation and specializes in synthetic materials used in fashion and textiles. She received an MA in Fashion and Textile Studies: History, Theory, and Museum Practice from the Fashion Institute of Technology, and MPhil in Design History and Material Culture Studies from Bard Graduate Center, where she is currently a PhD candidate writing her dissertation on the professionalization of fashion and textile conservation.