For Olivia Miller, the new executive director of the University of Oregon’s Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, the new job isn’t that new: She used to intern there.
Miller graduated from UO with a master’s degree in art history in 2009. She later became the first woman appointed director of the University of Arizona’s campus museum, where she oversaw the return and restoration of a famous stolen painting.
Miller, 43, is originally from Fort Worth, Texas, where one of her earliest memories is putting her hand in the water of the fountain at the Kimbell Art Museum. Her mother made it a point to bring her three daughters to art museums. Then came a childhood move to Tucson, where Miller grew up and attended the University of Arizona with plans to be a public school art teacher…