The Gallery at South Hill
Located at 950 Danby Road, across the street from the entrance to Ithaca College
Ben Frank Moss : Drawings and Collages
Ben Frank Moss 1936-2019
Born in Philadelphia in 1936, Ben was raised in Devon, Pennsylvania and Huntington, New York. After high school he attended Whitworth college in Spokane, WA, where he received his BA and hi MFA in painting from Boston University. Ben and his wife Jean moved back to Spokane in 1962, where he painted and began teaching painting and drawing as an adjunct instructor at Gonzaga University. From there, Ben went on to become the director of the MFA and Visiting Critics program at Fort Wright College in Spokane, and was later a founding member and acting dean of The Spokane Studio School. From 1975 until 1988 Ben taught in the MFA program at the University of Iowa, and from 1988 until he retired in 2010 he taught at Dartmouth College as the George Fredrick Jewett Professor of Studio Art.
