Dom Vetri, Professor, Law School; Doug Park, Associate General Counsel; Phaedra Livingstone, Assistant Professor, Arts & Administration; Kris Anderson, Director, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, University of Washington, and Vice President, Association of Academic Museums and Galleries (AAMG); Bill Eiland (Director, Georgia Musem of Art, Univeristy of Georgia); and Jill Hartz, JSMA Executive Director and President, AAMG, discuss the recent challenges facing academic museums and their collections.
Made possible in part with a JSMA Academic Support Grant.
Doug Park obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature from the University of Washington in 1988, and earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Oregon in 1993. Since graduating from law school, Doug has worked for a private law firm, the ACLU of Washington, a Washington State Public Defender firm in Seattle, and the Oregon Department of Justice. While at the Department of Justice, Doug developed the winning argument in two U.S. Supreme Court cases, and received both the Outstanding Achievement Award and Double Merit Award. From 2003–2008, Doug also taught at the UO law school. Since becoming in-house counsel at the UO in 2007, Doug has served on the planning committee for the National Association of College and University Attorneys (NACUA), and been a panelist or moderator for multiple law school and NACUA presentations. Throughout his career, Doug has litigated cases before the State Circuit Courts, Federal District Courts, the Oregon Court of Appeals, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the U.S. Supreme Court, and various state and federal agencies. He has also co-authored articles published in the Willamette Law Review, and the Oregon State Bar Criminal Law Manual. Park is a member of the JSMA's Leadership Council.
Dominick Vetri is a Professor at the University of Oregon Law School. He has been admitted to the bar in New Jersey and Oregon. He earned a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology. His teaching areas include art law, copyrights, and gay & lesbian legal issues. Vetri is a member of the American Law Institute, the Oregon Law Commission, and the JSMA’s Leadership Council.
Phaedra Livingstone is an Assistant Professor of Arts and Administration and currently runs the Museum Studies program. She came to the UO at the start of the 2008-2009 academic year. Livingstone has served on the JSMA’s Long-Range Planning Committee for two years and helped to guide the strategic planning process.
Bill Eiland is Director of the Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia. Eiland serves on the boards of the American Association of Museums, the Southeastern Museums Conference and the Georgia Association of Museums and Galleries; is a trustee of the Association of Art Museum Directors; and is chairman of the Arts and Artifacts Indemnity Advisory Panel for the National Endowment for the Arts. Eiland holds a Ph.D. in European History from the University of Virginia.
Kris Anderson is the Director of the University of Washington School of Art’s Jacob Lawrence Gallery; Vice President, Association of Academic Museums and Galleries; and a Ph.D. candidate in Art History at the University of Washington. He holds a M.S. in Museum Studies from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a B.A. in Classical, Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies and Archeology from the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities.
Jill Hartz has worked in university museums for twenty-five years, fifteen as a director. She is currently the executive director of the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. From 1997-2008, she served as director of the University of Virginia Art Museum in Charlottesville and for ten years previously worked in various positions at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University. She is president of the Association of Academic Museums and Galleries and is an AAM and IMLS accreditation reviewer. Ms. Hartz has curated numerous exhibitions and is the editor of four books, including a monograph on Agnes Denes. Her special interests include 20th – 21st century environmental and installation art, photography and new media, and contemporary Cuban art. She has lectured extensively on museum accreditation and strategic planning, exhibition organization, marketing and publishing. She has also served on city, county, state, and federal organizations and panels on the arts and tourism. Ms Hartz received her MA with Honors in English Language and Literature from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland in 1973 and previously pursued undergraduate studies at Oberlin College in Ohio.
