Tag: artist profiles

It was only a couple of years after Andrew Kusmin opened his first dental practice that he fell back into…

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

Oil painter Neil McAuliffe was born in Providence, Rhode Island, and moved to Hyannis in ‘68 when he was four…

“It’s hard to leave Provincetown,” says painter Erna Partoll. “Every season is beautiful, even the winters.” In her 53rd year…

Jackie Reeves finds herself “working back to front on a canvas rather than left to right, top to bottom,” she…

Living and working as a graphic designer in a corporate environment in downtown Chicago, Kyle Ringquist just wasn’t happy. With…

Born and raised New England native, now Sandwich local, Joyce Utting Schutter was born in Boston and grew up in…

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

“I think I’ve always been a really visual person,” says Alla Zbinovsky. A self-described “potter and painter,” Zbinovsky is no…

According to Harvard Health Publishing, the myth of left vs. right sides of the brain is simply that: a myth.…

“I don’t ever use black. I use the white of the paper,” Debra offers. “If you study painting with me,…

“My brain is 90 percent visual,” explains Craig Caldwell. The Brewster local and instructor at the Cultural Center of Cape…

It was an art elective that kept Yarmouth Port painter Joseph Conrad-Ferm from receiving his high school diploma. “I didn’t…

Betsy Payne Cook, an artist who paints exclusively in pastels, and a teacher who’s taught students of all ages, says,…

“I never thought I was ‘good’ at art,” laughs Hans de Castellane. “I used to wonder why everyone else wasn’t…

In the midst of downtown Harwich Port, The Nines Art Gallery’s light and airy atmosphere beckons visitors inside. On the…

“I don’t ever remember not creating art,” shares Chris O’Dell Ferguson. “I was kind of born into it. I have…

“The first piece of pottery I ever made was a tiny coil pot,” ceramicist Corrinn Jusell recalls. “By the time…