MCC and Dehn Foundation Sponsor Visiting Artist Talks

The Adolf and Virginia Dehn Foundation visiting artist series at Manchester Community College continues with independent art curator Meredyth Moses on Tuesday, November 18, from noon to 1 p.m. Moses will present a talk, “State of the Arts 2014: Life After School” in the Great Path Academy Community Commons on the college’s main campus. The event is free to the public.

The guest artist will recount a history of her work from 1976 to the present and will also focus her remarks on what artists can do to survive after art school or, “everything you ever wanted to know but were afraid to ask about life after school,” as Moses puts it.

Moses has been a fixture in the greater Boston art scene for many decades. She is a lecturer, panelist and juror and was the founder and director of the Clark Gallery in Lincoln, Mass. She has curated many exhibits throughout New England, including the aptly titled “Whatever Meredyth Wants” at Gallery Naga in Boston.

She devotes much of her time and energy as an overseer and member of the collections and exhibitions committee at deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, and for many years was a member of Fuller Craft Museum’s exhibition committee in Brockton, Mass. She is currently working on behalf of teens at Artists for Humanity in Boston and has curated and installed pop-up exhibitions for the W Hotel in Boston and in Vero Beach, Fla.

The Dehn Foundation was established by Virginia Dehn to promote the arts, and it is now administered by Virginia’s niece and nephews whose father, Frederick Lowe, Jr., served as Manchester Community College’s first president. The foundation has generously supported the MCC visiting artist program for several years. The second speaker in the Fall 2014 series will be photographer David Hilliard on December 1 from 11 a.m. to noon.