Sandy Boyd named interim head of UI art museum

IOWA CITY -- Willard "Sandy" 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 July 1, UI officials said today.

A search is under way for a permanent director. Pam White had served as interim director of the UI Museum of Art for several years.

Boyd, who serves as chairman 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 chairman 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, and the Board of Directors of Americans for the Arts and Humanities Iowa.