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ARG Staff Announcement!

March 30, 2017

It is my pleasure to announce the appointment of Heather Gibson Moqtaderi as Assistant Director and Associate Curator of the Arthur Ross Gallery. Since 2011 Heather has been the Associate Curator & 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 Heather independently curated were Duality at the Delaware Art Museum, Perception Shift at Stockton College, and Patterns of Consumption at Temple University. Since 2010 Heather serves as adjunct Associate Professor at Drexel University and in 2011 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. Heather received her M.A. in Early American Culture from the University of Delaware/Winterthur Museum, and a B.A. from the University of Delaware. In 2011 she was a Royal Oak Scholar at the Attingham Summer School in England, and is a member of several professional organizations. -Lynn Marsden-Atlass