Morgan Building (office hours: Monday through Friday 9:00-5:00)
Room 100 205 South 34th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6312
Telephone: 215-898-8374 fax: 215-573-2459
E-mail: fine-art@pobox.upenn.edu

John Moore, Department Chairman*
E-mail: jnmoore@pobox.upenn.edu

John Moore is Gutman Professor of Fine Arts and Chair of the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania. He has had twenty-nine solo exhibitions in New York since 1970. His most recent solo exhibition was held at Hirschl & Adler Modern in New York. Since 1970, over 35 solo exhibitiosn have been mounted of his work. Moore has received three visual artist fellowships from the National Endowment in 1969, 1982 and 1986, and has received the Academy Award in art from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1997. A monograph of his work, Inventing Reality: The Painting of John Moore by Therese Dolan was published by Hudson Hills Press in 1997. His work is in permanent collections from the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Jane Irish, Coordinator
E-mail: jirish@pobox.upenn.edu

Jane Irish is the Master of Fine Arts program coordinator and painter/visual artist. In 2005, she conceived of, organized, and exhibited in Operation Rapid American Withdrawal: 1970-2005 Exhibition at Ice Box Project Space, Philadelphia. A one person exhibition "History Lesson" was mounted in December 2002 at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and a solo exhibition of her work is scheduled for 2008 at the Locks Gallery in Philadelphia. Irish has had four solo shows in New York (1984-89) and received artist fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, CAPS Creative Artists Program Service, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Jane received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Maryland Institute College of Art, and a Master of Fine Arts from Queens College, City Unversity of New York. As an arts administrator, she has worked with the Pew Fellowships in the Arts, The Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Cheltenham Center for the Arts and Chester Springs Studio.

Jeremiah Misfeldt , Exhibitions Coordinator
E-mail: misfeldt@design.upenn.edu

Jennifer Ferrell, Assistant to the Coordinator
E-mail: fine-art@pobox.upenn.edu