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Heather Gibson Moqtaderi: Arthur Ross Gallery’s Asst. Director

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Arthur Ross Gallery director Lynn Marsden-Atlass, announces the appointment of Heather Gibson Moqtaderi as assistant director and associate curator of the Arthur Ross Gallery. Since 2011, Ms. Gibson Moqtaderi has been the associate curator and collections manager, Office of the Curator, where among other responsibilities, she researched two important gifts to the University Collection and co-curated The Myron A. and Anne Jaffe Portenar Collection, Courtly Treasurers: The Thomas W. Evans Collection, Surgeon Dentist to Napoleon III, and curated the current exhibition, Landscape/Soundscape, at the Arthur Ross Gallery.

Recent exhibitions she independently curated were Duality at the Delaware Art Museum, Perception Shift at Stockton University and Patterns of Consumption at Temple University. 

Since 2010 Ms. Gibson Moqtaderi has served as adjunct associate professor at Drexel University and in 2011 was an as instructor at Temple University. Previously she was a research assistant at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and collections manager for the Irvin and Anita Schorsch Collection. 

Ms. Gibson Moqtaderi received her MA in Early American Culture from the University of Delaware/Winterthur Museum, and a BA from the University of Delaware. In 2011 she was a Royal Oak Scholar at the Attingham Summer School in England. She is a member of several professional organizations.

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