Berwick Staff

Susan Sakash is fascinated with the different ways in which humans create communities with fellow human beings as well as their animate and inanimate surroundings. After graduating with a BA in the College of Letters from Wesleyan University in 2000, she has been doing her part to facilitate these relationships as curator, arts administrator, and general creative self. Most recently, Susan has been an organizer/participant in eXpuestos, a month long series of public art interventions in Panama City, Panama, and the creative director of the ‘Wandering Rocks, Revolving Doors’ collective, which brought 19 public art works to the streets of Dublin Ireland in June of 2004 as part of the larger ReJoyce Dublin 2004 Festival.

Bonnie Bastien is a working artist and is employed at Jameson and Thompson Fine Art Services in Jamaica Plain.  She received her BFA from Massachusetts College of Art in 2001. Bonnie worked with the Esprit De Corps Art Collective producing multi-media events in venues and non-venues throughout Boston for over two years as an artist, collaborator, and curator. She joined the Berwick as a Board Member in 2005.  Currently, Bonnie Bastien and Nova Benway are Co-Curators for the Berwick’s Artist in Research (AIR) Program. 

Nova Benway began her work with the Berwick as assistant and later Co-Curator of Meet Me at the Table, with Meg Rotzel and Susan Sakash.  She received her BA in English Literature and Criticism from McGill University in 2001. She manages an intern program for visual arts students at the Boston Center for the Arts and teaches middle school English and Math with the Steppingstone Foundation. Currently, Nova and Bonnie Bastien are Co-Curators for the Berwick's Artist in Research (AIR) Program.