KAREN CAPPOTTO is inspired by evidence of the handmade in a world where technology prevails. 
 Career Narrative

CAPPOTTO’S Undergrad years she studied Feminist Theology at Boston College and a year abroad focused on Contemporary British Fiction at Oxford University... After 9/11, Cappotto was accepted into at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, in order to pursue a new career as a visual artist.

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Karen Cappotto has just come on the radar recently after winning the Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed grant for painting, having successful Museum shows in two consecutive years while launching a new design company called Peg + Dick (www.peganddick.com), a fine art standard collection of prints, named after her parents, recently picked up by a contemporary chain of furniture stores expanding across America.

Over the past decade, Cappotto’s painting is primarily rooted in the Landscape of Provincetown where she has maintained a studio since 2001. Karen also has had extended residencies in Ireland, Italy and Spain.
Where ever her focus, Karen has consistently received multiple awards and prizes for her mixed media constructions and oil paintings.  Her work is in Provincetown Art Association and Museum permanent collection and in a new book by Deborah Forman published by Schiffer, Contemporary Cape Cod Artists Images of Land and Sea, most recently, her portrait, by Ron Amato, in  "Artists of Provincetown" just released in 2024.

Cappotto is a founding member of the non-profit group Provincetown Commons dedicated to developing a sustainable creative economy in the place that continues to inspire her work.

In August, Cappotto opened a gallery space in Provincetown’s West End.

120 Commercial Street, RSVPTOWN to make an appointment #617-699-4666 just send a message!