Val Sivilli

Tools, toys, feral beasts and the occasional short story nod toward expressive abstraction by combining the visceral activity of the paintbrush with the repetitive nature of printmaking. 2024 recipient of both New Jersey and Gottlieb Foundation Individual Artist Support Grants. Born in Brooklyn, raised on Long Island holding an MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University and a BFA from SUNY Alfred. She is a current member of the Steamroller Group, an artist collective working with the Hunterdon Art Museum and other venues to spearhead events that serve to forge connections between artists working in a rural environment. She is also a founding member of “THAT, The Hunterdon Art Tour”, a county wide tour of Hunterdon County’s Artist Studios.