Tom O’Connor (Board Member since 2010) is an art historian and essayist who lives in Westport, Connecticut. He has been teaching art history at the School of Visual Arts for more than twenty-five years and has served on various arts-related boards in his community, including Westport Schools’ Permanent Art Collection Committee, Art Smarts, Westport Arts Advisory Board, and the Westport Arts Center’s Board of Directors and as their Visual Arts Committee co-chair.