Sarah Bouchard is a visual artist, independent curator, writer and private art dealer. She has exhibited her work throughout the United States and has curated exhibitions from Portland, OR to Portland, ME. She opened Sarah Bouchard Gallery in 2022. Bouchard has extensive experience in non-profit management, curation, collection development, and arts administration. She has worked closely with the Carlo Pittore collection for the past fifteen years, placing Pittore’s work in dozens of institutional and private collections. Bouchard is also a passionate advocate for artists’ rights. 

Heather Chontos is an American artist, originally from New York. Before dedicating herself entirely to her fine art practice, Heather was an art director, prop stylist and set designer for international publications and television media. She began her career at the age of eighteen in London, working with well-known furniture and textile designers such as Tom Dixon, Michael Young and Christopher Farr. Her commercial work has been featured in numerous publications including French Vogue, Real Simple, Harpers Bazaar, People, Glamour, GQ, Esquire, New York Magazine and more. 

After many years spent traveling the world, she is now invested in creating a rooted atelier in rural France. Her abstract painting practice is based on the beauty of nature and inspiring landscapes. She has exhibited in both solo and group international shows in New York, Maine,The UK, Germany, Africa, France, Belgium, Italy and Spain. 

Kent Gordon is the co-founder and Vice President of Caine, Farber & Gordon, a computer software company that created the first compilers for the Intel microprocessors and a program design language, PDL. His most significant scientific contribution is the discovery of the crystal structure of the zeolite paulingite. As a personal database research project, Gordon is creating a very complete archive of all of his possessions, present and past. He served as a board member of the Union of Maine Visual Artists, and is currently a member of the board of the SPACE gallery, in Portland, Maine. Gordon was a longtime friend of the late artist Carlo Pittore and has been an active member of the Maine arts scene for over thirty years. 

Andrew Graham has been an artist, arts supporter, and entrepreneur in Portland, Maine for over forty years. Portland Color, a business that evolved from making slide shows in the late 1970s to large format digital printing in the 2000s, supported and employed artists as a reflection of its corporate values. After first receiving a BA in Art from the University of Southern Maine in 1980, Andrew received an MA in Public Policy and Administration from the Muskie Institute. He was the founding president of Creative Portland, a board member and board president of SPACE, and a founder and first board president of the Hewnoaks Artist Colony. He currently serves as the acting Executive Director of Kinonik, a non-profit that archives and exhibits auteur directed 16mm films produced from 1910 to 1970. Andy’s photographic work is part of the Portland Museum of Art collection.

mp Warming is an IAM Co-Founder and international artist who is based in Berlin, Germany. Warming's projects communicate forward-thinking ideas within fine art for renowned architectural spaces. The American Museum of Natural History, Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, and the US Department of Fish and Game have contributed to her projects. Warming's art has been in exhibition at the 2009 Venice Biennale détournement and is in permanent collections at the Nabokov Museum in St. Petersburg and Foster + Partners’ Library at the Freie Universität Berlin.

David Tobis, Ph.D. has been a friend of Carlo Pittore since they were in middle school together. David was the first chairman of the Carlo Pittore Foundation.

He began his career as a civil rights activist in Mississippi and as an anti-war activist, traveling to North Vietnam in 1968 as part of the first student delegation to visit that country. He was a Fulbright Scholar to Guatemala and a Revson Fellow at Columbia University, an award given to individuals who improve New York City.

Tobis is a sociologist who worked to reform child welfare in New York, the United States and internationally for four decades, working as a consultant to UNICEF, the World Bank, governments, foundations and NGOs.

He now works with the International Parent Advocacy Network to create a parent-led movement to transform child welfare. His recent book, From Pariahs to Partners: How Parents and Their Allies Changed New York City’s Child Welfare System (Oxford University Press, 2013) promotes parent advocacy around the world.