The UW-Milwaukee Art Museum was "established to house and administer the art
collections of the University and the exhibition programs in the Fine Arts
Galleries, in the Art History Galleries, and in the Museum Galleries in Vogel Hall."
All of the art collections on campus were to be moved to a renovated Vogel Hall that
would become the University Art Museum. However, due to budget constraints in
1980-1981, only a portion of Vogel Hall became available for housing some of the art
collections. At this time, the deans of the School of Fine Arts and College of
Letters & Sciences agreed that the UWM Art Museum would become a separate entity
that would administer all of UWM's art collections, but not necessarily house
everything in the same location. The museum opened to the public in 1983.
In 1996, the name of the University Art Museum was changed to the Institute for
Visual Arts or Inova. The mission of the new institute remained the same. In 2007,
the Institute for Visual Arts relocated to UWM's Kenilworth Building. The institute
remained at the Kenilworth building until Fall 2016, when the Peck School of the
Arts discontinued support.
Directors of Constituent Galleries
Directors of Fine Arts Galleries
| 1975-1977 |
Fred Parker
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| 1977-1983 |
John L. Taylor
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Directors of Art History Galleries
| 1975-1978 |
Norman D. Ziff
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| 1978-1979 |
Alex Seltzer
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| 1979-1983 |
Mark Chepp
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Directors of the UWM Art Museum
| 1983-1986 |
Suzanne Foley
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| 1986-1987 |
Robert Hickok (Acting)
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| 1987-1989 |
Kent Anderson (Acting)
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| 1989-1997 |
E. Michael Flanagan
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Directors of the Institute for Visual Art
| 1997-2003 |
Peter Doroshenko
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| 2005-2012 |
Bruce Knackert (Acting)
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| 2012-2015 |
Sara Krajewski
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| 2016 |
Monica Miller (Gallery Assistant)
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