Steward named director of Princeton University Art Museum

James Steward, a skilled arts administrator and a specialist in 18th- and 19th-century European art and culture, has been selected as director of the Princeton University Art Museum . Steward, director of the Museum of Art and a faculty member at the University of Michigan since 1998, will begin his work at Princeton in late April. "James Steward is a distinguished scholar, a gifted manager and a proven leader in the museum world," said Princeton Provost Christopher Eisgruber, to whom he will report. "At the University of Michigan, he has presided over a successful fundraising campaign that has added new galleries and public spaces to the university's museum and expanded its collection substantially. We are wonderfully fortunate that he has agreed to become the next director of the Princeton University Art Museum. PUAM is home to a splendid collection and a talented staff, and I am confident that James Steward's insight and skills will enable him to guide this extraordinary institution to even greater successes in the future." At the Michigan museum, Steward was responsible for overseeing the planning, construction and fundraising for a $42 million expansion and restoration designed by Allied Works Architecture. The museum's recently completed fundraising campaign secured more than $62 million in capital, endowment and operational gifts.