Art & Entertainment

Teresa Baksa

By Emma Ryan | August 4, 2020

Teresa Baksa, a traditional media painter based out of South Dennis, has had a long-time passion for art, but a roundabout journey to making it her full time profession. She…

Jill Bates

By Hannah Kunze | August 4, 2020

If you happen to see Jill Bates strolling along a Cotuit beach or garden path, don’t be insulted if she doesn’t return your wave. She is likely enraptured with the…

Rebecca Bruyn

By Brenna Collins | August 4, 2020

Rebecca Bruyn has spent 50 years pursuing her love for capturing photos. “I knew I wanted to start photographing at the age of 12. That’s when the Polaroid Instamatic came…

Ed Chesnovitch

By Julie Craven Wagner | August 4, 2020

Monet had his garden. Ed Chesnovitch has his marsh.  Each artist fell under the spell of the entrancing environments just outside their windows. A percolating landscape of the natural world…

Loretta Feeney

By Allyson Plessner | August 4, 2020

Loretta Feeney dwells in color. Her life is wrought by constant inspiration, saturated by creativity. Her artwork is similarly enrapturing for its layers of shades and free-flowing imagination, and her…

Rick Fleury

By Julie Craven Wagner | August 4, 2020

Artists through the ages have strived to capture what the forces of nature and the universe have created. Some, like the notable masters from the Hudson River School have succeeded…

Patricia Hopkins

By Christina Galt | August 4, 2020

As a water sign, local artist Patricia Hopkins has always found herself drawn to the water, which is abundantly clear in her artwork. In her childhood years, Hopkins spent weekends…

Marjorie Mason

By Katie Anastas | August 4, 2020

Painting has always been a powerful experience for Marjorie Mason, and her work reflects the care and intention she prioritizes and the experiences from which she draws inspiration. Her paintings…

Katherine D. Miller

By Chris White | August 4, 2020

When painter Katherine Downey Miller was growing up, she had a skylight above her bed. “I’d look up at night, and I’d see all the seasons changing,” she says. “When…

Julia O’Malley-Keyes

By Julie Craven Wagner | August 4, 2020

“It looks so real, I thought it was a photograph.” “I can’t believe this is a painting, there is such detail.” Exclamations such as these are commonplace in response to…

Barry Olofsson

By Katie Anastas | August 4, 2020

Barry Olofsson always had a passion for art. His work—intentional, meticulous and serene oil and pastel paintings, and charcoal sketches—reflects that love of creativity and a desire to explore and…

Charles Patrick

By Christina Galt | August 4, 2020

“From the time I was in middle school, art was something I always knew I wanted to do,” says artist Charles Patrick. He went on to attend Parson’s School of…

Andrea Petitto

By Chris White | August 4, 2020

Painter Andrea Petitto of Orleans frequently begins her work with a decision about colors. She says, “I usually use some kind of limited palette, for example, two blues, two greens…

David Riina

By Julie Craven Wagner | August 4, 2020

David Riina remembers the day his life took a turn. He remembers the day eight years ago when he decided to step on a path to pursue art as a…

Aleta Rossi Steward

By Brenna Collins | August 4, 2020

Amidst the ever-changing outdoors, there are countless, often fleeting, moments of splendor—raindrops resting on a dahlia’s petals, the stillness of Pleasant Bay at dusk, or the chase between a peregrine…

Mimi Schlichter

By Allyson Plessner | August 4, 2020

“My family first came from Pennsylvania on vacation to Megansett in 1967,” recalls artist Mimi Schlichter. “Little did I know the lifelong connection for which the foundation was laid—that 53…

Steve Swain

By Elizabeth Shaw | August 4, 2020

Visit a restaurant on Cape Cod, and you might notice a school of fish swimming across the wall. Maybe there’s a school circling the lights up above. Metal sculptor Steve…

Mary Wojciechowski

By Chris White | August 4, 2020

Mary Wojciechowski  “pushes the envelope” by seeking new ways of creating fine art. A professional background as a middle school art teacher, and an award-winning watercolorist, has led her to…