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About the Auction

Artrageous!22, Montserrat College of Art's 22nd annual art auction to benefit student financial aid, will be held on Saturday, May 3rd, 5:30pm, at 500 Cummings Center, sixth floor, Beverly, MA.

This year we are pleased to announce that Barbara Moody, a well-known artist and longtime member of the Montserrat College of Art faculty and administration, will serve as honorary chair.

The auction co-chairs are Mark Glovsky and Livia Cowan of Gloucester.

The auction — which raised more than $200,000 last year — devotes 100% of its proceeds to student financial aid, enabling our students to obtain a first-rate fine arts education. At present, close to 90% of Montserrat students receive need-based aid.

More than 200 professional works of art including paintings, prints, photographs, sculptures, ceramics, jewelry, mixed media, and objets d'art will be auctioned off at this year's event. The Auction is made possible by the generosity of some of the finest professional artists in the region who donate their work, including alumni, faculty, staff, trustees and friends; our compassionate sponsors; and a cadre of art patrons and donors from the community who support the Auction each year.

Location

The sixth floor of 500 Cummings Center, a very large, well-lit location with panoramic views of Beverly, will provide plenty of room for our hundreds of guests, and allow art previews prior to the event.

Directions

From Route 128
From Route 128: Take Route 62 east approximately one mile to the Cummings Center. (McDonald's and Stop & Shop are directly across the street.) Turn left into Cummings Center and go to guard gate. At gate, take a left, pass 900 Cummings Center, then a right after Acapulco's Restaurant. Follow toward the back of the building and you will see a pond on your left and then a large fitness facility. Continue straight back and left past the gym and you will see a tall building to your left, which is 500 Cummings Center.

From Montserrat College of Art, 23 Essex St., Beverly
Take a left off Essex Street onto Dane Street. At end of road, take a right onto Cabot Street and then a left onto Elliott Street, Route 62 (at Town Paint and Supply which will be on your right). Continue over two sets of railroad tracks and the Cummings Center will be on your right. Go straight ahead to the guard gate. At gate, take a left, pass 900 Cummings Center, then a right after Acapulco's Restaurant. Follow toward the back of the building and you will see a pond on your left and then a large fitness facility. Continue straight back and left past the gym and you will see a tall building to your left, which is 500 Cummings Center.

Honorary Artist Barbara Moody

Barbara Moody earned an Ed.D. and a M.Ed. from Harvard University, and a BFA from Syracuse University. She is a full-time professor at Montserrat, where she also served as Vice President and Dean for nine years. Barbara's work has been exhibited in several major Boston galleries including last year's exhibition "Going Ape: Confronting Animals in Contemporary Art" at the DeCordova Museum, and "In and Out" at the Pepper Gallery,Boston. She is a member of Kingston Gallery in Boston, where she had a solo show in October, 2007. She is currently working on a major commissioned mural for Meditech Corporation. Barbara received a Massachusetts Cultural Council finalist grant in drawing in 2004.

Board of Trustees

Steve Archer
Charles Boyer
Beatrice Britton
Janice Colby
Lee Dellicker
Gina Deschamps
John Drislane
R. Hilliard Ebling
Linda Harvey
Betsy Hopkins
Frank Kaminski
John Margolis
Sigrid Olsen
Beverly Shafer
Trina Smith
Lecia Turcotte
Katherine Winter