Thomas Cappuccio

Professor of Art, Emeritus

Northern Michigan University

Marquette, Michigan 49855

tom@cappuccio.org

Thomas Cappuccio has exhibited widely at the national level in over 200 juried and invitational exhibitions. He was born in Italy, and came to the US at age 12. He received a BFA from Pratt Institute, and a MA from Brooklyn College of CUNY. He has had an active exhibition record in painting and drawing, illustration, and mural painting. He has taught in New York City, at Kendall College of Art and Design, the University of Oregon, and is Professor Emeritus from Northern Michigan University where he has taught painting, drawing, design, illustration and visual theory courses. In 1975 served as Head of the Department of Art and Design until 1978 when he helped develop a BFA in Illustration which he directed since 1979. His paintings, drawings and mural paintings are found in numerous private and public collections in many states in the U.S.

His work appears in Art in Public Places, Ohio University Press; The Handbook of Architectural Ornament, Van Nostrand Reinhold; Words and Images, Northern Michigan University Press; North Country Images, Scarlet Ibis Press; and Parallel Worlds, Northen Michigan University, and the Cappuccio Artworks Press. He has studied with Samuel Gelber, Alex Katz, Gabriel Laderman, and Ad Reinhardt, among others.