Mr. Barreto is the Director of the UrbanArts Institute at Massachusetts College of Art and Design which is dedicated to the facilitation of public art projects in the region.  Prior to that he worked for the Massachusetts Cultural Council where he was initially Program Coordinator for Individual Artists and then Program Officer for Organizations. With degrees in art history (BA and MA) from Oberlin College, Mr. Barreto has a long track record of managing art projects, and as a curator of many shows in the United States, Mexico and Europe.   He has written numerous exhibition catalogues and has published essays on a variety of arts related topics. Mr. Barreto has been a board member of the Public Art Network, a program of Americans for the Arts and Mass Humanities.  He is currently on the board of the Arts Services Coalition, the Friends of Fort Point Channel, and is board liaison between Mass Humanities and the Massachusetts Cultural Council.  In New Hampshire, he is a board member of the Cornucopia Project dedicated to educating youth about organic farming and sustainable agricultural practices, and the Monadnock Music Festival.