The North Bennington Sculpture Show Curator for the past 10 years!

Joe Chirchirillo has been creating sculpture since the early 1970’s. After attending college he moved to the New York Metro area and settled in Jersey City, New Jersey. He was part of the first wave of artists moving to this outpost across the Hudson, building the budding art scene there. Chirchirillo’s work has been reviewed in Art Forum, Art in America, Vanity Fair and on numerous occasions in the New York Times. He also received a NEA fellowship in 1986.

He relocated to Vermont sixteen years ago. Since then he has mainly focused on outdoor sculpture. Besides participating in many exhibits and curating the North Bennington Outdoor Sculpture Show for the last 9 years. He was invited to participate in the Kaohsiung iron and steel festival in 2017, where he created a permanent 17’ tall kinetic sculpture. He has also received many commissions and is in numerous private collections in North America and Asia.

Alisa Del Tufo's career has been dedicated to making impact at the nexus of practice and policy; individual and community change; intellectual pursuit and activism with the goal of ending violence in the lives of women and girls addressing racism and other deep social challenges. She has founded three organizations: Sanctuary for Families, CONNECT, and Threshold Collaborative.

Del Tufo's policy and legislative efforts have resulted in federal, state and local reforms, including the establishment of a 3 million dollar fund for housing support for women survivors of violence and children, changes in criminal justice, child welfare and health reform.

Del Tufo is the author or two books on domestic violence and child abuse and multiple articles. She has been awarded the Charles Revson Fellowship for the Future on NYC (1988/89), a Rockefeller Fellowship (1998), and in 2007 was elected, for a lifetime, into the Ashoka Fellowship, a global network of leading social entrepreneurs.

Matthew is co founder and executive director of the Vermont Arts Exchange (VAE). He assists Joe with NBOSS tasks from creating the program/map and siting the sculpture to helping organize the annual opening party in VAE’s front yard.

His drawings, paintings and sculptures are inspired by his surroundings whether in Vermont or through his travels in Europe, Brazil and Central America where he also has exhibited in group and solo shows.

Matthew’s sculptural pieces and installations evolve around a “sense of place”. Materials may range from rough cement to soft, natural wood. Commission work is favored as it builds not only a physical piece in a physical space but creates a relationship and dialogue between people.

Jamie has been curator at the Bennington Museum since 2005. His scholarship has focused on American art of the early to mid-20th century, with a particular emphasis on the intersection of modernism and self-taught art. He has organized exhibitions and written books, essays and articles featuring artists and topics including Milton Avery, Erastus Salisbury Field, Grassroots Art, Impressionism, Rockwell Kent, Anna Mary Robertson Grandma Moses, and Alice Neel. His 2014 exhibition Alice Neel/Erastus Salisbury Field: Painting the People was recognized by the Wall Street Journal as one of the most memorable exhibitions of the year and his 2016 exhibition Milton Avery’s Vermont was lauded as being “as close to a perfect show as mere mortals can mount.”

Since 2020 Jamie has been delighted to collaborate with NBOSS to bring outdoor artworks to Bennington Museum's 10-acre campus in Old Bennington.

In his free time Jamie likes to explore the forests, mountains, lakes, and rivers of southwestern Vermont with his son, with whom he enjoys fishing, finding “critters” (mostly amphibians and reptiles), and rockhounding, and his partner, with whom he enjoys foraging for wild mushrooms and exploring old graveyards.

Passionate about proving that artists can do pretty much everything with an extra spark of creativity.

Ahmad is a multidisciplinary professional having accumulated his experiences from living, studying, exhibiting and working in the United States, Lebanon, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Turkey and Somaliland. Ahmad currently sits on the board of the Better Bennington Corporation, member of the Shires Young Professionals, The Vermont Changemakers Table, and Marketing Manager at VT News & Media.

Ahmad’s artwork explores the politicization, contemporary issues in the Middle East, and personal investigation. In all areas, he is interested in the role played by spatial justice, memory, and identity. He is deeply inspired by contemporary Islamic Art and the processes of modernization through untraditional color palettes, excessive use of vegetal and decorative elements, patterning, and the use of Arabic calligraphy.