Jeff de Castro is an installation artist whose public work has been sited at many cultural and public locationsin New England, New Jersey, New York, Illinois and Delaware. He has been listed as one of 250 community artists in the United States 2000 Initiative called Artists and Communities co-sponsored by The Mid Atlantic Artist Foundation and The National Endowment for the Arts. De Castro has also received grants from the Mid Atlantic Artist Foundation, New England Foundation for the Arts, Very Special Arts and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. His previous work at the Tompkins County Public Library was called “Textscapes” and included 40 participants: poets, artists, adults and youth in wrapping the entire library with a 1 foot x400 foot roll pf surrealist text. de Castro has been a member of The Inkshop in Ithaca, NY and served previously as a board member of the Revolving Museum, a public art
and community-based organization in Boston.