
Heather Galloway is the founder and owner of Galloway Art Conservation, LLC. A peer-reviewed Fellow in the American Institute for Conservation (AIC), she has over thirty years of conservation experience working in museums and with private clients. She treats art works in accordance with the Code of Ethics and Guidelines for Practice as set out by AIC.
Galloway has a BA in Fine Arts from Middlebury College, an MA in Art History from Williams College and a Certificate in Conservation from the Conservation Center of the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.
She spent her graduate internship year at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and remained for a second year with a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She was awarded a fellowship from the Friends of French Art that took her to Paris for a year to work with the students of the Institut Français de Restoration des Oeuvres d'Art. Upon returning to the US she became the Leisher Fellow in the Research and Treatment of Modern Paintings at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC where she remained for two years.
She moved to Ohio in 1997 and after working with the Cleveland Museum of Art joined the staff at ICA-Art Conservation where she worked for sixteen years. During this time, Galloway also began teaching courses in the college and university setting. Her teaching experience includes courses geared towards the undergraduate audience taught at Oberlin College; courses on materials and techniques for the joint PhD program at Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Museum of Art; and graduate training for conservation students in the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and Historical Studies at the University of Oslo in Norway.
Galloway served on AIC’s Education and Training Committee from 2009 until 2017, and was its chair for two years. She served from 2015-2021 on the Programing Advisory Group for Connecting to Collections Care, a website and online community designed to assist smaller cultural institutions in caring for their collections.
Galloway has a BA in Fine Arts from Middlebury College, an MA in Art History from Williams College and a Certificate in Conservation from the Conservation Center of the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.
She spent her graduate internship year at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and remained for a second year with a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She was awarded a fellowship from the Friends of French Art that took her to Paris for a year to work with the students of the Institut Français de Restoration des Oeuvres d'Art. Upon returning to the US she became the Leisher Fellow in the Research and Treatment of Modern Paintings at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC where she remained for two years.
She moved to Ohio in 1997 and after working with the Cleveland Museum of Art joined the staff at ICA-Art Conservation where she worked for sixteen years. During this time, Galloway also began teaching courses in the college and university setting. Her teaching experience includes courses geared towards the undergraduate audience taught at Oberlin College; courses on materials and techniques for the joint PhD program at Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Museum of Art; and graduate training for conservation students in the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and Historical Studies at the University of Oslo in Norway.
Galloway served on AIC’s Education and Training Committee from 2009 until 2017, and was its chair for two years. She served from 2015-2021 on the Programing Advisory Group for Connecting to Collections Care, a website and online community designed to assist smaller cultural institutions in caring for their collections.