"Putting together major exhibition tours is a lot of work, and David has been an incredible partner in helping us confirm not one but two major tours with six museums participating so far. One of these tours – the most comprehensive ...

“I had the distinct pleasure of being one of 50 plus stakeholders interviewed by David Galligan in his capacity as the Facilitator of the District 2021-2023 Artistic Strategic Plan. I applaud David’s successful efforts to bring unvarnished views of ...

“We hired David Galligan in the fall of 2019 to work on two Oregon State facilities projects – a new $70 million Arts and Education Complex (AEC) anchoring a campus arts and culture quad, and an $18 million renovation of the campus art and graphic ...

“When most museums were closed due to the 2020 pandemic, The New York Times surveyed the best American museum websites: ‘Art is not just what’s on a museum’s walls. “Art” is a whole collection of experiences and ideas and ...

“David worked with the University of Utah Provost, the volunteer Advisory Board of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts (including key donors) and myself to rethink the governance protocols for the Museum during a difficult period of transition between ...

“When the Walker Art Center embarked on a major campus redevelopment project in 2013 to integrate its 7 acre campus with the adjacent 11 acre Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, I reached out to David and compelled him to return as COO. This was after a ...

“Wexner Center hired David on two pivotal occasions, in 2010 and 2018. First, on the occasion of the Wexner’s 20th anniversary, David authored a qualitative and quantitative study benchmarking Wexner against 20 contemporary art center peers across the ...

“Steven Holl’s striking design for the Institute of Contemporary Art at VCU (which opened April 2018) captivated everyone on campus, but it wasn’t clear whether it was affordable at the time I hired David in 2012. David worked with our donors, the Dean of ...

“Dance Theater Workshop’s (DTW) Board engaged David to help us better understand and come to a consensus on how to deal with significant “recession-related” challenges facing our cultural facility in Chelsea. His work on finances and governance with our ...