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for Ben Frank Moss
American, 1936 - 2019
Ben Frank Moss received his BA from Whitworth College in Spokane, WA, was briefly a graduate student at Princeton Theological Seminary and in 1963 received his MFA from Boston University with high honors.
He was the George Frederick Jewett Professor of Studio Art at Dartmouth College where he assumed the chairmanship of the department in 1988 after teaching for thirteen years in the MFA program at the University of Iowa in Iowa City. Prior to his tenure at Iowa he was, for ten years, the Director of the MFA and Visiting Critics program at Fort Wright College in Spokane, WA. Before leaving the Northwest for Iowa he founded and was the acting Dean of the Spokane Studio School. He also did teaching sessions at the Vermont Studio Center and the Chautauqua School of Art.
He has had over 57 solo exhibitions. IN addition to his exhibitions with his respective dealers a sampling would include shows at West Chester University, Phillips Exeter Academy, Union College, Taylor University, Princeton Theological Seminary, Middlebury College, Queens College at the University of Melbourne, Houghton College, the Columbus Museum of Art, the Arnot Art Museum, the Albright-Knox Art Members gallery and the Museum of Art and Culture in Spokane and the TASIS England American School.
In 2007 he was awarded The Charles Loring Elliot Award & Medal for Drawing at the 182nd Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Art at the National Academy of Design Museum in New York. He was awarded artist residences at Yaddo, MacDowell, The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, The Millay Colony, The Tyrone Guthrie Center in Ireland and the Pouch Cove Foundation in St. John's Newfoundland. He was the recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award from Boston University and a Ford Foundation Research and Travel Grant and an honorary MA from Dartmouth.
He was the George Frederick Jewett Professor of Studio Art at Dartmouth College where he assumed the chairmanship of the department in 1988 after teaching for thirteen years in the MFA program at the University of Iowa in Iowa City. Prior to his tenure at Iowa he was, for ten years, the Director of the MFA and Visiting Critics program at Fort Wright College in Spokane, WA. Before leaving the Northwest for Iowa he founded and was the acting Dean of the Spokane Studio School. He also did teaching sessions at the Vermont Studio Center and the Chautauqua School of Art.
He has had over 57 solo exhibitions. IN addition to his exhibitions with his respective dealers a sampling would include shows at West Chester University, Phillips Exeter Academy, Union College, Taylor University, Princeton Theological Seminary, Middlebury College, Queens College at the University of Melbourne, Houghton College, the Columbus Museum of Art, the Arnot Art Museum, the Albright-Knox Art Members gallery and the Museum of Art and Culture in Spokane and the TASIS England American School.
In 2007 he was awarded The Charles Loring Elliot Award & Medal for Drawing at the 182nd Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Art at the National Academy of Design Museum in New York. He was awarded artist residences at Yaddo, MacDowell, The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, The Millay Colony, The Tyrone Guthrie Center in Ireland and the Pouch Cove Foundation in St. John's Newfoundland. He was the recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award from Boston University and a Ford Foundation Research and Travel Grant and an honorary MA from Dartmouth.
