Maryalice Eizenberg is an award-winning artist and Massachusetts native. Born in 1948, she was surrounded by a family of musicians who naturally were supportive of her interest in the visual arts. She has been drawing and painting all of her life and has found her passion in plein air landscapes. Her art education includes course study at the Worcester and Springfield Fine Arts Museums. She holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Clark University and has studied with accomplished plein air painters John Cosby, Donald Demers, Joseph Paquet and Charles Sovek. She credits Charles Sovek with inspiring the confidence she must have to continue painting while people stop to watch and sometimes chat.

Maryalice has been featured in Cape Cod Life and Chatham magazines and "The Creative Spirit, Art in Chatham's Old Village." She also appears in Contemporary Cape Cod Artists: People and Places by Deborah Forman.

She teaches at the Creative Arts Center in Chatham and is a member of Oil Painters of America, Cape Cod Plein Air Painters and 21 in Truro. Her work is held in private collections in the United States, Europe and Japan.

Artist's Statement- Realism that excites has a foundation in abstraction of design. This is especially true in landscape paintings. A willingness to move the elements around to create an impression of the place that is rhythmic and pleasing is essential. The pattern of light that makes form, saturates color and creates mood holds it together. To capture the sense of a place at a specific moment in time is the reward given to the dedicated plein air painter.

Robert Mesrop has been an artist and painter for over 45 years. He is a Signature Member of the New England Watercolor Society and the Pennsylvania Watercolor Society and is currently a painting and drawing instructor at the Cape Cod Art Association and the Creative Art Center in Chatham Mass, He has also conducted painting workshops in Maine and Massachusetts.

Robert's Primary medium is watercolor although he also works in oil and drawing media. Robert is fascinated by changing lights and shadows. He paints to capture these moments in time. The freshness and luminosity of watercolor make it the perfect medium.

Robert received his Bachelor of Professional Arts degree from the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles. For 22 years he was an Art Director at J Walter Thompson and at Kenyon and Eckhardt Ad agencies in New York. He is a Master Artist member of the Cape Cod Art Association, and a member of the Creative Art Center, Chatham, the Transparent Watercolor Society and the Salmagundi Club.

Nature has always been a source of artistic inspiration for me, ever since I began drawing plants, birds, and animals as a child. It continues to spark my imagination now as I paint and draw nests, trees and landscapes. Six years ago, one of the first pastels I painted was a bird’s nest, which developed into of a series and a subject that I still explore. I aspire to create each nest as a safe and a sacred space, as well as construct order out of seeming chaos in order to depict the strength of even the most delicate nest.

I am a Signature Member of the Pastel Society of America, the Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod, the Pastel Painters Society of Maine, and I am in the International Association of Pastel Societies’ “Master Circle”. I am the PPSCC Recording Secretary. I was awarded First Place in the Pastel Journal’s“2012 Pastel 100” Still Life Category, as well an Honorable Mention in the Landscape Category in the “2013 Pastel 100”. My other Artist Memberships include the Cape Cod & Islands Art Educators Association, Cape Cod Art Association, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Cotuit Center for the Arts, Cultural Center of Cape Cod, North River Arts Society, and Connecticut Pastel Society.

"One of my favorite things is to open up the kiln to see what spectacular things have occurred during the firing process. Each time I feel like a kid on Christmas morning, so anxious to open it up to see what marvelous gift is inside."

Ron has been making pottery since 1969. He began working and teaching at the Clay Art Center in Port Chester, New York. He moved to Cape Cod in the early 80's and set up a studio and gallery at his present location.

He produces a variety of forms in stoneware, porcelain and raku by hand, on the potters wheel or by hand-building. He also makes nonfunctional form oriented pots using primitive firing techniques. His functional pots are lead free, dishwasher safe, and microwave and oven proof.

Michael is the Curator of Exhibitions at the Cape Cod Museum of Art, since 2003. He was the Chief Art Preparator at the Gregg Museum of Art and Design for 10 years at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC. He has taught art at Pope John Paul II High School in Hyannis, and presently teaches acrylic painting for adults at the Cape Cod Museum of Art; He has held workshops at the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA, the Truro Center for the Arts, Truro, MA and at the Weny Education Center at the CCMOA.

Artist Statement: Art has been a big part of my life for over 50 years, from the first time I saw Salvador Dali’s “Persistence of Memory” I knew what my future will be as an artist.
From drawing and 3d assemblages to decorative painted furniture and always acrylic painting, my life has been full of making art. I continue to be amazed, never really expecting what lies ahead, starting with the first idea and brush stroke.The challenges are always there that pushes me to create.

Steve Kennedy is a painter working in the tradition of outdoor, or "plein air" painting. ... His paintings reflect the brilliant light of the Cape with both an intensity and softness. Kennedy has been living and working on Cape Cod since 1981. His work has been exhibited extensively in the Northeast.

In 1997 I took a course in oil painting and was immediately taken by the medium. I loved the way the paint made my drawings come to life. I found that my work has an emotional impact and presents a sensuous awareness of form and the way that light lies on surfaces. In 2006 I became extremely sensitive to all forms of solvents used in oil painting and needed to change my technique. After some experimentation, I found my way back to oil painting using a palette knife rather than brushes in order to avoid solvents. In the process, I also began to paint outdoors. My work became more sculptural with the use of the palette knife, and my color ideas developed more strongly with the plein air experience.

In 2008, my husband and I moved from upstate New York to Cape Cod. Once here, I became enchanted with the stark landscape of the dunes in Truro and Provincetown. I was fascinated by the way the wind shapes the sand and I created a series of paintings of that subject attempting to express the forms as well as the sense of serene solitude one gets when waling in the dunes. I have since begun a series called "Beach Dogs". Early in the morning, people bring their dogs to the beach to let them run. The combination of dogs, water and sand is very painterly and expressive. Though not human, dogs are very gestural and emotional. Because of the wonderful and vibrant artist community here on the Cape, I have now returned to the human figure with renewed vigor and a whole new, more atmospheric and emotional approach.

Marian Strangfeld graduated from Rutgers University with a BA in Studio Art, and from Cambridge College with a M.Ed in Art Education. She studied painting in the MFA program at UMass Amherst, as well as in various workshops and classes at other art institutions.

Her interest in art and education led to a career as high school Studio Art teacher and K-12 Art Director in Hopkinton MA. Under her leadership, Hopkinton High School was named a School of Excellence in the Arts, and represented Massachusetts in the Kennedy Center Creative Schools of Distinction competition. While teaching in Hopkinton, she also served on the Educators Advisory Board for the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.

In her own work, Marian explores the atmosphere and mood of the landscape. Her style is influenced by traditions of Asian Art, evident in her abstracted compositions and calligraphic brushwork. Her paintings have been recognized in exhibits at the Danforth Museum, Newton Open Studios, and the Beacon Hill Art Walk, earning numerous Juror awards, and other honors.

Marian's work is exhibited locally at the Chatham Creative Arts Center, where she is a member of the faculty, teaching both Painting 101and Sumi-e ink painting. Her paintings can also seen at the Ray Wiggs Gallery in Provincetown MA.