Art & Entertainment

Artist Profile: Gwen Marcus

By Julie Craven Wagner | July 21, 2025

For more than a century, the Cape has had a history of being a significant crossroad for artists of distinction. The fact that Gwen Marcus, a gifted and talented sculptor…

Artist Profile: Joseph McGurl

By Leslie Hatton | July 21, 2025

For artist Joseph McGurl, one of the country’s premier landscape painters, each brushstroke is like a love letter to the planet he holds so dear. Whether he is painting a…

Artist Profiles: David Mesite

By Allyson Plessner | July 21, 2025

On Cape Cod, the landscape is teeming with breathtaking beauty—winding roads, ever-changing shorelines, and scenes that evoke stories of summer picnics, peaceful sunset strolls along the beach, and leisurely walks…

Artist Profile: Richard Pawlak

By Elizabeth Hilfrank | July 21, 2025

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but what about a painting? Look at Richard Pawlak’s abstract expressionist paintings, and years of life lessons and stories emerge from…

Artist Profile: Kate Pelletier

By Julie Craven Wagner | July 21, 2025

In Kate Pelletier’s Nantucket studio, art begins not with a sketch or a plan but with a feeling. Her process, much like the island itself, is organic and atmospheric—guided more…

Artist Profile: John Ricciardi

By Hannah Eaton | July 21, 2025

There is a picturesque quality to John Ricciardi’s paintings that invites the viewer to step into them, to spend time on his colorful beaches, his quaint streets, and his sweeping…

Artist Profile: Janine Robertson

By Julie Craven Wagner | July 21, 2025

For Janine Robertson, the path from trompe l’oeil muralist to contemporary landscape painter was both a natural evolution and a conscious departure. A classically trained artist who began her career…

Artist Profile: Andrea M. Sawyer

By Matthew Nilsson | July 21, 2025

The journey along life’s unexpected twists and turns has brought Andi Sawyer to a place where she’s still happily mystified to have arrived. Even though her childhood in Maine was…

Artist Profile: Lee Surette

By Greg O'Brien | July 21, 2025

“Cape Cod is a mirror,” says gifted watercolor and oil painting artist Lee Surette, reflecting the stunning beauty of natural light echoing off the ocean. There are few places, says…

Artist Profile: Richard Vecchione

By Leslie Hatton | July 21, 2025

Like an absentminded connection between your brain and your creative side, the act of doodling is effortless and playful. It sparks ideas, helps us with concentration, provides stress relief and…

Artist Watch: Sarula Bao

By Christina Galt | July 21, 2025

In 1999, Tao Water Art Gallery opened its doors bringing Asian contemporary art to West Barnstable. Inside the doors of that gallery was five-year-old Sarula Bao, the daughter of owners…

Artist Watch: Dianna Braginton-Smith

By Christina Galt | July 21, 2025

Being a born and raised Cape Codder shapes your identity, saltwater runs through your veins, and the sounds of the ocean’s waves crashing on the shore echo in your subconscious…

Artist Watch: Matthew Jay Russell

By Julie Craven Wagner | July 21, 2025

There’s something unmistakable about a Matthew Jay Russell painting. At first glance, the viewer is struck by its compositional restraint: no clutter, no noise—just a boat, a horizon, a quiet…

Whale Tail Weaving: Threads of Tradition and the Joy of the Unexpected

By Julie Craven Wagner | July 21, 2025

Bridget Wiatrowski, the artisan behind Whale Tail Weaving, isn’t just preserving the storied tradition of Nantucket basketry—she’s reshaping it with charm, elegance, and a spark of modern whimsy. This story…

Spotlight: Arts Empowering Life

By Cape Cod Life Publications | July 21, 2025

This Summer, Experience The Arts In Action With Arts Empowering Life The new Performing Arts Center in Brewster is hailed as “a beacon of possibility” and is a destination hot spot…

Dream Weaver

By Julie Craven Wagner | July 1, 2025

Michelle Romano has big plans for a production she’s created, set against the charming backdrop of Chatham.

Jaws 50: Terror from the Depths

By Chris White | July 1, 2025

The movie that still has us thinking twice about taking a dip in the ocean turns 50 this year.

Supporting Cast

By Julie Craven Wagner | July 1, 2025

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