Moe Brooker

American painter, educator and printmaker, 1940–2022

BiographyMoe Brooker (1940–2022) studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and Tyler School of Fine Arts at Temple University (B.F.A.,1970; M.F.A., 1972). Brooker held faculty positions at such institutions including the Cleveland Institute of Art, Parsons School of Design (as chairman of the Foundation Department), the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and, since 1995, Moore College of Art and Design, where was professor and chair of the Foundation Department. In 2012 he retired from full-time teaching, becoming professor emeritus at Moore. Brooker was an educator with whom students remained friends for years after graduation. Brooker received many presitigious awards and recognitions, such as: Honored by The African American Museum in Philadelphia at 35th Anniversary Celebration (2011); the Artist of the Year Award, the Governor's Awards for the Arts, Governor Edward G. Rendell of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (2010); an Artists Equity Award (2010); a Medal of Achievement, The Philadelphia Art Alliance (2009); and the Van Der Zee Lifetime Achievement Award, Brandywine Workshop, Philadelphia, PA. Most recently he was honored in 2021 by the Historic Germantown Hall of Fame. His work is in public or corporate collections such as the Studio Museum in Harlem, Montgomery Museum of Art, the Musée des Beaux-arts de l’ Ontario, Xerox Corporation, General Motors, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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