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Originally from Portland OR, Don received his BFA and MFA from the California College of the Arts in Oakland CA in printmaking and sculpture. After this he taught printmaking and drawing in Victoria BC at the University of Victoria, and then went on to Santa Barbara where he taught at UCSB of Creative Studies, made sculptures, and had three solo shows in NYC. He relocated to NY and landed a teaching job at Sarah Lawrence in the early 1980s. He chose to build a house and settle in High Falls and worked for Jeryl Parker, making copper etchings which were the biggest in the world at that time. Don and Jeryl printed for artists like Julian Schnabel, Donald Sultan, and David Salle. He has experience selling art at Sotheby’s and Christie’s, and Don has been a generous supporter of O+ since it started.
Jicky Schnee is a multidisciplinary artist working in both the visual and performing arts. In 2017, she established The Stable Gallery in Lake Hill, NY to provide an artist-run, supportive exhibition platform in Woodstock, NY.
Schnee first came to know O+ as a festival alum in 2018. Her visual installation was shown alongside a performance of the one act autographic play The Four Sisters; The Eye, the Ear, the Brain and the Mouth. Schnee received her degrees in Fine Arts and Art History, BA and Pre-med, BSc. from Rice University and she studied drama at the British American Drama Academy in England. Jicky Schnee comes from a large family of doctors and looks forward to working with O+ to continue to bring quality health-care to artists and to grow the organization in ways that allow O+ to expand that access.
John Cappello is a partner in the full service firm of Jacobowitz and Gubits, LLC in Walden, New York. His personal practice area is primarily land use development and municipal law. He has a special interest in development of affordable/ work force housing and alternative energy/ sustainable development.
John serves as Board President of RECAP, Inc a local anti-poverty agency as well as the Josephine Louise Library Board and the Pattern for Progress Housing Advocacy Committee. He has attended and volunteered with O+ for several years since meeting executive director Joe Concra at the LongDock TEDx talk in Beacon, where they both presented. John is drawn to O+ efforts since it serves the dual purpose of promoting the arts and music as well as the need for a community to provide compassionate care to those who may need it.
Since visiting Kingston for the first time in 2013 while Gaia was painting the monumental mural on the back wall of the former BSP Michael has become an honorary Kingstonian.
As an independent wealth manager and father of a world renown muralist (and O+ alumnus) Gaia, Michael has focused on the areas of fundraising and art in his six year tenure on the board.
In addition to volunteering for O+ Michael has generously donated his time for many years to Housing Works and Holy Name Medical Center.
