Mary Giammarino graduated from Greenfield Community College with an Associate’s Degree in Fine Art. She continued her college work at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst on an art scholarship. In 1989 Mary began studying painting at the Cape Cod School of Art in Provincetown, working with Hilda Neily, John Ebersberger, and Cedric and Joanette Egeli. Mary has been returning to Provincetown every year since then to paint and study the Cape Cod light. She has had numerous solo shows and exhibitions in Provincetown, Philadelphia and Vermont. She lives in Vermont with her Sculptor husband, John Cassin, and their two German Shepherds, and conducts workshops in plein air painting at PAAM and in Brattleboro, Vermont.