Yale Bulletin and Calendar

December 1, 2006|Volume 35, Number 12|Two-Week Issue

Amy Meyers

Amy Meyers is reappointed
as museum's director

Amy Meyers has been reappointed as director of the Yale Center for British Art for a five-year term, effective July 1, 2007.

In a letter to the Yale community announcing the reappointment, President Richard C. Levin noted that faculty, staff, students and friends of the museum have praised Meyers' "leadership and extraordinary ability to forge new and important relationships." In addition to actively pursuing collaborations with other departments around the University, said Levin, Meyers has "worked tirelessly to enhance the center's presence in London and around the United Kingdom."

He added: "The Yale Center for British Art is a highly successful and visible institution, within our community and far beyond, and a great credit to Yale University. We are fortunate to have Amy Meyers as the director, and I join all of you in looking forward to five more years of outstanding leadership."

A Yale alumna (she earned a Ph.D. in American studies here in 1985), Meyers was previously curator of American art at the Henry E. Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California.

As director of the Yale Center for British Art, Meyers has worked to strengthen the museum's role as a leading research and educational institute in the history of arts, while continuing its active exhibitions program. She has reached out to students, faculty and scholars to involve them in the life of the center -- inviting faculty to make use of the museum's resources in their classrooms and in their own research projects, and encouraging student involvement in the center's teaching initiatives, such as the Student Guide program and the student exhibition program, and promoting student research projects through graduate fellowships, undergraduate internships and postdoctoral positions. She also created a Preservation Committee to oversee conservation of the current museum site.

During her second term as director, Meyers expects to focus on expanding the center's facilities in a new shared site at 149 York St. as part of the University's plans for the arts area; cataloguing the museum's collection to improve its accessibility to scholars; strengthening its paintings conservation program; increasing the membership of the affiliated Friends of British Art organization; and building its exhibition endowments to support research and development.

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