Sarah Miller Meigs

Meigs is a Portland Oregon native and a granddaughter of Harold Miller, who ran the Stimson Lumber Co. for roughly 50 years. After graduating from Macalester College in Minneapolis, Meigs lived in Los Angeles for eight years before returning in 1998 to Oregon with her family and husband, Andrew Meigs, an Oregon State University geologist. She is the mother of two children and lives in Corvallis Meigs gives money, serves on committees for the Pacific Northwest College of Art and the Portland Art Museum, but avoids the spotlight. Her most public effort has been a $1 million gift to the Portland Art Museum for a series of small but potent exhibits by major contemporary artists, including Damien Hirst, Kehinde Wiley and Cy Twombly.