Museum staff bios, archive

Elizabeth Hutton Turner
Vice Provost for the Arts

Elizabeth Hutton Turner is the University's first vice provost of the arts and also serves as interim director of the University of Virginia Art Museum. Turner is the former senior curator of The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. During her 18-year tenure at The Phillips Collection and as a member of their senior staff, Turner was involved in developing the strategic plan for the expansion of the Phillips and for the creation of its Center for the Study of Modern Art. She directed exhibits and wrote extensively on Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Jacob Lawrence, Joan Miró, Piet Mondrian, Man Ray and Alfred Stieglitz. Turner serves on the advisory board for the Alexander Calder Foundation and is currently working on a biography of Calder. She is a native of Charlottesville and a member of the U.Va. family, having completed all of her degrees (B.A., M.A. and Ph.D.) at the University.

Andrea Douglas
Guest Curator

		Photo: Dan Addison/U.Va. Public Affairs

University of Virginia Art Museum curator Andrea Douglas has been selected to participate in the Getty Leadership Institute's Museum Leadership Institute at Claremont (Calif.) College. The program will be held at the Getty Center in Los Angeles from July 10 through 29, 2010.

Douglas will join more than 30 museum leaders from around the world to explore the increasingly complex issues that face senior museum executives and their institutions, including new technologies and shifts in philanthropic matters.

Participants are selected based on their ability to influence policy and effect change at their institutions. They represent various roles in the museum field, including directors, curators, educators and those involved in fundraising and finance. The eclectic group is selected to "create a diversity of perspectives and experience for group discussions," according to the announcement of this year's participants.

The group includes senior leaders from prominent museums, institutions and university museums, including the National Museums of Science and Industry in London; National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian Institute's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington; Museum of Fine Arts in Boston; California Science Museum; Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County; the Queensland Museum in Australia; Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, Maine; and University of Alaska Museum of the North in Fairbanks. Museum leaders from Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, Scotland, Portugal and China will attend the institute.