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Artist Profile: Roberta Anslow
According to Harvard Health Publishing, the myth of left vs. right sides of the brain is simply that: a myth. For local photographer Roberta Anslow, discrediting that myth is something…
Artist Profile: Debra Birtwell
“I don’t ever use black. I use the white of the paper,” Debra offers. “If you study painting with me, you will learn about color. That’s my gift: I see…
Artist Profile: Joseph Conrad-Ferm
It was an art elective that kept Yarmouth Port painter Joseph Conrad-Ferm from receiving his high school diploma. “I didn’t attend class,” he says. “From a very early age I…
Artist Profile: Betsy Payne Cook
Betsy Payne Cook, an artist who paints exclusively in pastels, and a teacher who’s taught students of all ages, says, “To those who enjoyed painting once, then gave it up…
Artist Profile: Hans de Castellane
“I never thought I was ‘good’ at art,” laughs Hans de Castellane. “I used to wonder why everyone else wasn’t ‘good’ at it. I suppose it’s like learning cursive.” The…
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: Bao Lede
Bao Lede is an artist who has found his home a world away from Inner Mongolia, China where he was born. As gallery owner of the Tao Water Gallery in…
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: Sharon McGauley
In some ways, the form and process of Sharon McGauley’s art represents the scope of Cape Cod’s landscape. Just as the eye can take in an entire harbor or an…
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…
Emerging Artist: Alyssa Ruggieri
For Centerville native Alyssa Ruggieri, her journey to becoming ALR Designs started back in 2018 when she went to pull out her acrylic set, only to find her paints had…
News & Noteworthy
A Cape Cod Presence in the U.S. Embassy in Ireland How did it come to be that paintings of scenes of Cape Cod will soon be prominently displayed in the…
In the Brine-Spiked Air
Artist residencies across the region provide a place of learning & an opportunity for doing, against inspirational backdrops.
Rive Gauche
Wellfleet’s Left Bank Gallery, located on the left bank of Duck Creek, celebrates a halfcentury of presenting art to a discerning and appreciative audience.
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A Voyage Fueled by Vision
Forty years ago Harry Holl imagined a place where the art and artists of Cape Cod could shine. Today the Cape Cod Museum of Art celebrates a bright future. Nestled in the crook of the arm of Cape Cod, along historic Route 6A, is the artistic enclave known as the…
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Local photographer and CUSP Gallery owner Curtis Speer has been able to take advantage of the last drawn-out months the pandemic brought upon us to curating a collection of fine art photography. After combing through thousands of photographs he had taken over the course of his career, Speer selected 200…
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Steve Lyons and Peter Demers each contributed their talents to the Steve Lyons Gallery that now honors their shared legacy. “Partnership is not…
A stormy year brought silver linings to Cape and Islands Arts Organizations. In March 2020, when non-essential businesses began closing their doors due to…
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“I don’t think about art when I’m at work. I try to think about life.” ~ Jean-Michel Basquiat Ask 100 artists on the Cape…
Arnie Casavant has a special gift beyond his ability to draw people to him through lively conversation; he also captures them by capturing…
Karen Crocker is a seventh generation Cape Codder. But unlike those who came before her, her family moved out of Centerville—to Osterville! “I…
You might be able to take the girl off the Cape, but you can’t take the Cape out of the girl. That postulate…
William R. Davis never thought he could make money as an artist, but his outlook changed in 1988, when the Mystic Maritime Gallery…