About UVaM

Director's Welcome

UVaM
A Museum with momentum...

I have fantastic news to share about UVaM's continued progress, made possible by your support. This spring, the Museum will host a groundbreaking exhibition that reunites three panels of the celebrated altarpiece the Adoration of the Magi by the Sienese master Bartolo di Fredi (c. 1330-1410), the most important painter in Siena in the second half of the fourteenth century. The altarpiece is currently dispersed, with the primary panel located in Siena and two predella panels divided between Germany and UVaM. The altarpiece has never been reunited and thoroughly studied. Its reconstruction and debut in the United States at UVaM will afford scholars and students an historic opportunity for research and study.

I am also pleased to announce that UVaM has received a five-year $315,000 grant from the prestigious Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to fund the position of Academic Curator. We are thrilled by the ways in which this new position will expand our outreach not only in the University, but also in the work we do to serve our community.

As we build our focus on programming, our need to expand—such that we can best fulfill our mission as a teaching museum—is more essential than ever. This brings me to some exciting news: J. Sanford Miller and his family have provided a very generous gift of $2 million in support of UVaM's capital campaign. In honor of this tremendous commitment, the main gallery will be named the J. Sanford Miller Family Gallery. This is the first named space at UVaM, and we are delighted to have the Miller family forever associated with our signature gallery.

An alumnus of U.Va. (College '71), Mr. Miller is a member of the Museum's Advisory Board, the University's Campaign Executive Committee, the Arts Council, and the Raven Society, and a co-chair of the San Francisco Jefferson Scholar Committee. Mr. Miller and his wife Vinie reside in the Bay Area, where his daughters, Christine Miller Droessler (College '04) and Charlotte Miller (College '08) work in art galleries. Christine also serves on the Arts Council at the University.

The Miller family's support signals the start of the design phase for