Boyd named interim director of UI Museum of Art

July 01, 2010

University of Iowa News Release

Willard L. Boyd, Rawlings-Miller Professor of Law and president emeritus of the University of Iowa and The Field Museum of Chicago, will serve as interim director of the UI Museum of Art, effective today, July 1. A search is under way for a permanent director.

Boyd, who serves as chair of the Iowa Cultural Trust, is a member of the U.S. Department of State Cultural Property Advisory Committee, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the board of National Arts Strategies. He has served as chair of the National Museum Services Board, and as a member of the National Council on the Arts, the Advisory Committee for the Getty Education Institute for the Arts, the Board of Directors of Americans for the Arts and Humanities Iowa.

Read the release on the University News Services website

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