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University of Virginia Council for the Arts

In 1990, the President’s Council for the Arts was created with Mort Caplin as its chair. The first annual fund grant was made by the Arts Council to the University in 1999 for a studio art building plan. This began as an informal process of contributions from the Arts Council to advance areas of the arts at U.Va. The grant process was launched formally in 2003.

Active Members as of June 2008

HONORARY CHAIR:

Mortimer M. Caplin (College ’37, Law ’40)

CHAIR:

J. Sanford Miller (College ’71)

VICE-CHAIRS:

Edith S. Champ
Stephen P. Smiley (College ’71)

MEMBERS:

Nicholas W. Acquavella (College ’00)
Dorothy Batten (Darden ’90)
John H. Birdsall III (College ’66)
Mary-Scott B. Birdsall (College ’66)
E. Roger Boyle III (College ’64, Law ’67)
Mark D. Bronson (Graduate School of Arts & Sciences ’83)
Laura Farish Chadwick (College ’89)
Margaret Brown de Clercq (College ’90)
Ruth C. Cross
Anne L. Fife
Deanna Conner Gould (College ’84)
Claudia L. Kelly (College ’74)
Thomas C. MacAvoy
Byron F. Marchant (Law ’87)
Thomas R. Osborne (College ’87)
Joanne Robinson
William S. Ryall, Jr. (Architecture ’77)
Elizabeth Henning Sutton (College ’72, Grad ’74)
Paul Junger Witt (College ’63)
Shannon Worrell (College ’90)