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89 Ro French, president of The Women's Fund of Essex County Advisory Board Kurt T. Steinberg, president of Montserrat College of Art in Beverly Brian Kennedy, the Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo director and CEO of the PEM Kurt T. Steinberg becomes the new president of Montserrat College of Art in Beverly. BY ALEXANDRA PECCI rom Vincent van Gogh to Edgar Allan Poe, the idea of the starving artist is enduring, even romanticized. But for Kurt T. Steinberg, Ed.D., there's nothing roman- tic or even realistic about the "starving artist" trope these days.Not only is it inaccurate and insulting, but Steinberg believes that in the context art education, it's actually damaging. "I think it is unethical and immoral for art and design schools to ever perpetuate the idea of the starving artist," he says.