Say hello to our wonderful gallery attendants when you visit. Attendants assist the gallery in many areas including exhibition installation, content development, collections and archive research, and visitor services.
Dale Atkins has been a Lamont Gallery attendant since 2015. Prior to working at the gallery, she owned and operated Dale Atkins Painting & Frame Restoration for fifteen years. Atkins creates hand-built clay vessels with a focus on design and subtle asymmetry. She also has experience working in steel, wood, copper enamel, textiles, oils and acrylics, leather, silver and other materials. She is often called upon to assist with working in the collection as well as to install exhibitions in the gallery. She contributes to many other campus arts and cultural projects.
Jennifer Benn has been a Lamont Gallery attendant since 2015. She is also a professional painter with a studio at the Button Factory in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. She earned her M.F.A. in painting from Syracuse University and has led programs for students to study art and culture in Ireland at the Burren College of Art. Benn taught college-level art classes for over 12 years and continues to offer private lessons at her studio. When she is not engaging with visitors on weekends, you may see her running around Exeter with posters and postcards, helping us publicize our exhibitions and events.
Ann McGrath has worked at the Lamont Gallery since 2010. She is a retired fourth grade teacher from the Marston School in Hampton, New Hampshire and brings a great degree of organization and love of education to the Lamont Gallery. McGrath helps us research information for exhibitions and selects resources from the Academy Library that enhance our exhibitions. She also works at the Academy Library. When she is not on campus you can find her exploring hiking trials in New Hampshire and abroad.
Aimee Towey-Landry joined the Lamont Gallery in the winter of 2018 as the interim Gallery Manager and in 2019 she became a gallery attendant. She has over six years of experience in arts administration from her positions as registrar and exhibitions coordinator at the Gulf Coast Museum of Art in Largo, Florida and special projects coordinator at the Tampa Museum of Art in Tampa, Florida. She is currently working with a team of professionals to build a non-profit that serves the homeless and the housing vulnerable populations of greater Concord. She also volunteers at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston.