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.

Ahmad Yassir has served as Director of the North Bennington Outdoor Sculpture Show (NBOSS) since 2025. A 2020 graduate of Bennington College, he brings a multidisciplinary approach to arts leadership, grounded in both artistic practice and cultural administration.

Yassir’s work spans media, marketing, event production, nonprofit strategy, and exhibition development. His professional and artistic experiences—shaped by living, studying, exhibiting, and working in the United States, Lebanon, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Turkey, and Somaliland—inform a global perspective on contemporary art and community-based cultural initiatives.

As an artist, Yassir draws inspiration from contemporary Middle Eastern art and the visual language of modernization. His work often incorporates nontraditional color palettes, layered vegetal and decorative motifs, patterning, and Arabic calligraphy—exploring identity, ornamentation, and the evolving dialogue between tradition and contemporary form.