Integrating Faith
and the Creative Arts
11:00 AM • Frantz Classroom
“In an era that has been dominated by notions of art as either an extension of the ego or of some impersonal political or economic system, [Ben Frank] Moss shows us a different path” (Gregory Wolfe, “Ben Frank Moss: Poet of the In-Between.” Immanence and Revelation: The Art of Ben Frank Moss, 2008). Indeed, for this accomplished artist, art is about connecting, through both observation and creation, with the spiritual realm.
This session will feature an interview with Ben Frank Moss, the former George Frederick Jewett Professor of Studio Art at Dartmouth. He will present selections of his work, and discuss how his faith inspires his creative process. Professor Moss will also speak to the significance of faith and meaning in the greater world of art, including how our interaction with art can lead us to a fuller understanding of the divine.
Interviewer
George Thorman D’11
George Thorman is a senior from Lincoln, Nebraska, studying Geography and Studio Art at Dartmouth College. His interests extend to work on the Dartmouth Organic Farm and with various campus sustainability initiatives. George hopes to combine his creative and environmental callings through a future career in architecture or a related field of design.
Guest
Ben Frank Moss, M.F.A.
Professor of Studio Art emeritus, Dartmouth College
Ben Frank Moss, M.F.A. is the George Frederick Jewett Professor of Studio Art at Dartmouth College. Prior to Dartmouth he taught in the graduate program at the School of Art and Art History at the University of Iowa. He graduated from the Stony Brook School on Long Island and Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington. Following a brief stint at Princeton Theological Seminary, he completed his MFA at Boston University with High Honors in 1963.
Professor Moss exhibits his work extensively throughout the U.S. and abroad. The Francine Seders Gallery in Seattle has shown his work since 1967 as well as the Kraushaar Galleries in New York and the Pepper Gallery in Boston. He has been an artist in residence at Yaddo, MacDowell, and the University of Melbourne, among others.
He has lectured at 96 institutions and his work is currently displayed in 43 public collections including Yale University, The Tacoma Art Museum, Everson Museum of Art, and The New Britain Museum of American Art.
In the fall of 2009, Professor Moss was awarded the distinguished alumnus award from Whitworth University, having already received the same award from Boston University in 1988. In 2007, he received The Charles Loring Elliot Award and Medal in Drawing from the National Academy Museum, NY.
