News
May 2021
Cape Cod Life: The Message from the Messenger Man
Traeger DiPietro channels the beauty found around him into a beguiling statement about life on the Vineyard… Read more
May 22, 2019
MV Times: Artism for Autism
Artist Traeger di Pietro has created a memorable Messenger Man collaboration in time for the Island Autism Group’s new Artism for Autism art show fundraiser Memorial Day weekend at the Ag Hall… Read more
June 2019
Martha’s Vineyard Arts and Ideas: Traeger di Pietro and Messenger Man Spread the Word
Artist Traeger di Pietro has a message he’d like to deliver. It’s one of positivity and love. And, appropriately enough, for the past several years, he’s been using a character called the Messenger Man to help spread the word… Read more
August 22, 2018
MV Times: Creative expression
The art of Traeger di Pietro is not that easy to define. He works in various styles, rendering wildly different subjects. For the past few years, the Oak Bluffs artist has been the subject of two summer shows… Read more
May 1, 2018
Martha’s Vineyard Magazine: The Impulsivist
As a child Traeger di Pietro was a Chuck Taylor–wearing baseball player in his element with a mitt in one hand and a bat in the other. That is, until he fell for a girl his freshman year of high school.… Read more
November 15, 2018
Boston Voyager: Meet Traeger Di Pietro
Today we’d like to introduce you to Traeger Di Pietro. Traeger, please share your story with us. How did you get to where you are today? Eighteen years ago, I was invited to work on Martha’s Vineyard with my lifelong best friend chef Matt Oneil. After graduating from college, it seemed like a fun idea and a great place to paint… Read more
February 10, 2016
MV Times: Traeger diPietro spreads the love to the West Coast
Martha’s Vineyard artist Traeger diPietro has taken his work bicoastal, with a show in Los Gatos, Calif., opening on Feb. 9. The show, “The Man and His Heart” will be on display at JCO’s Place, as part of its “XOXO” exhibit, until Feb. 28… Read more
August 18, 2014
Vineyard Gazette: Artists Create in Real Time on Edgartown Lighthouse
Saturday evening artists Ken Vincent and Traeger di Pietro set up easel, light, camera and projector at Lighthouse Beach in Edgartown. At nightfall a new mixed media painting was created… Read more
August 17, 2014
MV Times: Obama vacation beat: Saturday, August 16
And on Saturday, there was no golf. The President and First Lady, referred to by the White House press pool at least, as POTUS (president of the United States) and FLOTUS, went to a private beach on Martha’s Vineyard’s south shore… Read more
August 14, 2014
Vineyard Gazette: Putting the Process on the Line, Art Project Embraces Real Time
After sundown on Monday, artists Ken Vincent and Traeger di Pietro unloaded a canvas, easel, and bag of supplies from their cars and carried them out to Christopher Mara’s backyard… Read more
July 10, 2013
MV Times: Riding high with Traeger di Pietro
The view from the driver’s seat in his soft drink delivery truck is looking better than ever this summer as Traeger di Pietro gazes across the Island he has claimed through his many paintings… Read more
June 21, 2013
MV Times: Art project will be pieced together, ‘Whatever the Outcome’
It was artist Traeger di Pietro’s job to make the painting, valued at $15,000. It was Craig Miner’s job to cut it up… Read more
August 1, 2012
MV Times: The two styles of Traeger di Pietro, Martha’s Vineyard artist
Some artists develop a particular style and stick with it, refining elements along the way but keeping to the straight and narrow. Double that equation for Vineyard Haven artist Traeger di Pietro. He is lucky enough to have two different galleries display the two different styles he works in… Read more
July 9, 2012
Vineyard Gazette: Broad Stroke of Artists Ready For Edgartown Gallery Stroll
Traeger di Pietro first started painting for love. He was 15; she was artsy and he was a jock, a baseball player. He knew her ex-boyfriend had painted her things and he wanted to impress her too. His first paintings were small still lifes of flowers and roses… Read more
June 15, 2011
MV Times: Traeger di Pietro talks about his art
He says it isn’t that he has changed as an artist since moving to the Island 11 years ago — not changed, but evolved. “My techniques, methods, and rendering are the same,” he says, “but the colors and compositions are stronger.”… Read more
May 19, 2011
Salem News: More than meets the eye
Traeger di Pietro discovered his love of painting as a teenager, when he was trying to amuse the children in his mother's day care… Read more
September 16, 2010
MV Times: Multi-media Artists
Around the turn of the century, Picasso and Braque coined the term “collage” for mixed-media art, but artists have been adding unexpected objects to their work practically as long as art has been created… Read more
July 29, 2010
MV Times: How They Survive: Doing Double Duty
Traegar DiPietro, Scott Terry, John Holladay and Ben Cabot are among those Vineyard artists who maintain two careers. In addition to their artistic pursuits, each of these Islanders supports himself with another, separate career.… Read more
July 1, 2010
MV Times: Four New Generation Artists
They each work on the Island, surrounded by sea, sky and its special quality of light. All four approach their work with freshness, vitality and integrity. Some of them are close friends. Yet the art created by Traeger diPietro, Kara Taylor, Dan VanLandingham, and Adam Thompson shares an even more crucial characteristic… Read more
June 3, 2010
MV Times: Restaurants Support Island Art
Not all great local art is to be found in Vineyard galleries. The work of some of the preeminent and up-and-coming Island artists can be seen in local eateries, from high end to homey… Read more
April 29, 2009
Wicked Local: A match made in Marblehead
What better way to create a buzz of activity for both artists and businesses in Marblehead than to offer “Art Walk,” an opportunity to traverse the streets of Marblehead, enjoy the beautiful spring weather — and get some shopping done… Read more