Art & Entertainment
Artist Profile: Lauren DiFerdinando
In the midst of downtown Harwich Port, The Nines Art Gallery’s light and airy atmosphere beckons visitors inside. On the walls, entrancing oil paintings of glass bottles and dancing ocean…
Artist Profile: Chris O’Dell Ferguson
“I don’t ever remember not creating art,” shares Chris O’Dell Ferguson. “I was kind of born into it. I have a very artistic family. We didn’t even have a television…
Artist Profile: Corrinn Jusell
“The first piece of pottery I ever made was a tiny coil pot,” ceramicist Corrinn Jusell recalls. “By the time I reached my junior year at Nauset High School, my…
Artist Profile: Jen Kelly
For Hingham-based artist Jen Kelly, painting has always been part of her soul. “When I was thirteen, there was an oil painting class down the street from me in this…
Artist Profile: Sharon Mansfield
Sharon Mansfield still remembers the very moment she fell in love with art as a young girl. “My mother taught me how to paint with oils when I was 13,”…
Artist Profile: Debbie Mueller
What could be better than starting a whole new life after you have already lived much of a completely happy and fulfilling one? Debbie Mueller can speak to how wonderful…
Artist Profile: Rosalie Nadeau
The moment when most artists acknowledge that is in fact, what they are, who they are: an artist, must be a memorable confirmation. Not so for painter Rosalie Nadeau. “I…
Artist Profile: Vail Pagliarani
Cape Cod native Vail Pagliarani is known for expressive painterly landscapes and coastal marines. He had the good fortune to study with two noteworthy instructors. First, with the accomplished illustrator…
Artist Profile: Michael Rich
Artist Michael Rich’s landscapes are expansive and expressive. Inspired by the vast variety of New England settings and seasons, Rich’s work has been called “irascible,” but that is a word…
Artist Profile: Candice Ronesi
Cape Cod has long been home to artists from all walks of life. From those just starting out, to seasoned creators, the Cape is a haven for both artists and those…
Artist Profile: Monica Rozak
Monica Rozak fell in love twice, at the same time. “I met my husband here and he showed me all of his favorite back roads, and special beach hideouts and…
Artist Profile: Snefrid Sneve-Schultze
Snefrid Sneve-Schultze, or Sissi as she is known to close friends and family, was born and raised in Bardu, Norway where she lived into her early twenties. As a young…
Artist Profile: Cyle Thomas
An artist has the distinct skill—opportunity, really—to observe the world through a lens of passionate creativity, and to turn those observations into something imaginative, inspired…artistic. Cyle Thomas’ viewpoint, and subsequent…
Artist Profile: Milisa Valliere
Artist Milisa Valliere is a painter whose gifts and experience are cosmically aligned with the legendary psychedelic band, The Grateful Dead, which made an art of combining music with light,…
Emerging Artists: Creating Art to Suit the Soul
Meet four local artists who are just beginning their journey of exploration and creativity.
Emerging Artist: Emily Hutchinson
After working ten plus years as a CNA, Emily Hutchinson went from a career in healthcare to an emerging artist. Hutchinson first fell in love with art in high school,…
Emerging Artist: Erin Nelson
“Like many artists, I am inspired by nature,” says artist Erin Nelson. Her jewelry, which Nelson creates in her home studio on Cape Cod, attempts to, “communicate the overwhelming awe…
Emerging Artists: Kristen Rheaume
For local emerging artist Kristen Rheaume, (known as Wonderfully Written Co. on Instagram) becoming an artist was something that happened by circumstance. As a new mother and a pediatric nurse…
