OUR TEAM

Daniela Leonard

Owner & Head Conservator

Daniela is the founder of Chicago-based Reanda Art Conservation. She is a paintings conservator, business owner, and consultant who helps collections managers, private owners, museums, galleries, and auction houses retain the quality and value of their artwork collections. She provides thoughtful and ethical solutions with an understanding of time and budget constraints. For over a decade she has worked with institutions and private clients in the Chicago area, across the US, Europe and Asia.

Before moving into private practice, she spent five years at the Art Institute of Chicago working primarily on canvas and panel paintings for the updated Deering Family Galleries of Medieval and Renaissance Art, Arms, and Armor. She also worked at the Cincinnati Art Museum, the Stichting Restauratie Atelier Limburg (SRAL) in Maastricht, and at the Opificio delle Pietre Dure (OPD) in Florence, Italy.

Daniela holds a Postgraduate Degree with Honors in the Conservation of Easel Paintings from the Hamilton Kerr Institute, University of Cambridge in England (2009), and trained for one year at the Palazzo Spinelli Istituto per l’Arte e il Restauro in Florence, Italy.

DAVID GARCIA

ASSISTANT CONSERVATOR OF PAINTINGS and PHOTOGRAPHER

David brings constant positivity to the Reanda Art Conservation team. He is a problem solver with excellent manual dexterity allowing him to work on small details of the finest quality. Painting conservation is a vocation for him.

He has been with RAC for two and half years. Previously he worked for The Conservation Center in Chicago and the Bowes Museum in Durham, UK. He worked in Graphic Design for six years, which trained him in the coordination of multiple projects, deadlines, and expectations. He also worked in commercial photography for six years doing studio operations, client services, and technical photography skills. He is RAC’s inhouse photographer. David holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration from Columbus College of Art and Design, and a Masters degree in Conservation of Easel Paintings from Northumbria University.

Robert Grossman

Strategy, Operations, and FacilitIes

Rob works on the backend to keep RAC running smoothly so that the rest of the team can focus on conserving artworks. From handling facilities to admin to strategy, he wears a number of hats that have helped to shape the experience and growth of the business since 2018. He brings systems thinking, social emotional intelligence, planning, research, and execution together to make things happen.

In past roles he spent over five years building and running a not-for-profit community bicycle workshop and leading communication, programming, and facilities initiatives. He taught User Experience Design at the University of Miami, New Jersey Institute of Technology, and Kansas State University. He has over a decade of experience consulting across service experience, marketing, and business design, including working on Ford’s EV rideshare partnership with Uber, where he performed client value research.

Robert holds a Masters of Design Methods from the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology and a BA in Imaging and Digital Arts from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Eva Rando

Preprogram Intern

Eva Rando is a pre-program intern from Northwest Ohio. She studied at Ohio State University, completing a B.A. in Chemistry in 2023 as well as minors in Studio Art, History of Art, and French. As a student, she gained practical experience with book and paper conservation and library collections care at the university libraries. Since graduating she has completed pre-program internships at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Wyoming and private practices in San Francisco and Chicago. She joined RAC in 2025 and can usually be found in the studio working on conservation treatments or researching materials and treatment methods. Outside of work, she serves as Cleveland Regional Co-Liaison for the Emerging Conservation Professionals Network, through which she strives to expand the region to cover a broader area of Ohio and therefore promote accessibility of the field and community among emerging professionals. In the future, she hopes to complete a master's degree in conservation and to work in museums or libraries.