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Girls Got Gills

During the pandemic, the Lower Cape-based Gills Club wasn’t able to do in-person activities, but found a silver lining in virtual programming. With social media and online podcasts, they have reached a wider audience around the region, the nation, and the world. Now in its third season, the “Gills Talk” podcast features interviews with female shark scientists, sharing the scientists’ research and advice for young girls interested in sharks and STEM (science, technology, engineering, and...

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Washday Blues

For homeowners, Drs. Lorna and Rich Morel, it was important that their Cape house was unlike their primary residence in New York. For the design and construction of their summer home, they entrusted Falmouth’s Clancy Construction—an experience in which everyone involved describes as collaborative. “They were truly fantastic clients,” says owner and project manager Greg Clancy.  When it came time to design the laundry room of the home, that later won Clancy Construction a 2023...
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Helping Hands & Caring Hearts

Meet ten nonprofits whose efforts are devoted to strengthening our community.

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Good Things in LIFE: Duck Duck Give!

Good Things in LIFE is back to shine a light on an island business doing good!

Creating Camelot

JFK’s legacy and how it has shaped our understanding of an era 60 years after his assassination.

Season of Lights

Celebrating 20 years of Gardens Aglow at Sandwich’s Heritage Museums & Gardens.

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The Beauty of Balance

Doreve Nicholaeff merges a client’s vision with her sophisticated respect for design and symmetry.

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There’s a Summer Place

BRICC award-winning landscape architect creates a new design for a historic home, inspired by a family’s childhood memories of Hyannis Port summers.

Mastering the Trade: Mike Duffany 

With a new year comes change; the inclination to revamp, update and make modifications that strengthen and improve us. In…

Renovate to Update

Longfellow Design Build helps bring a family’s dated summer home into the present day making it practical as well as inviting for generations to come together.

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Our feelings of support and gratitude for what the art community contributes to this unique landscape are deep. Therefore, all the content in this year's Cape Cod ART is available for everyone to read!

2023 Artist Profiles

Artist Profile: Karri Allrich 

A woman stands, back turned on the beach, her right hand at her brow, elbow crooked just above the ocean’s…

Artist Profile: Peter Kalill

Peter Kalill spent his college summers drawing caricatures in an amusement park. Upon graduation in 1995, the Springfield native moved…

Artist Profile: Paula David

After a long career as a senior-level marketing executive and brand strategist in financial services and higher education, Paula David…

Artist Profile: Odin K Smith

Chatham-based painter Odin Smith comes from a Cape Cod family of distinguished artists. Her grandparents, who met at the Chicago…

Artist Profile: Julia Felsenthal

For artists like Julia Felsenthal, there is no better subject than the personal. Or, as Henry Ward Beecher put it,…

Artist Profile: Yukimi Matsumoto

Glass artist Yukimi Matsumoto grew up in the bustling city of Osaka, Japan. Her extended family ran a sushi restaurant…

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By King or Storm

Two Cape growers, Sandwich’s Bob King and Provincetown’s Stormy Mayo, share the straight scoop on growing magnificent Dahlias.

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Sea & Soil and Frost & Found

Two floral designers interpret their passion for flowers and the natural world with unique perspectives.

Blooming at the Water’s Edge

Landscape Designer Maria Hickey sets a seaside embankment ablaze with blooms!

Encompassed by Nature

Sudbury Design Group transforms a tranquil property on Fox Island in Osterville, a project that reflects the natural allure of this Cape gem.