Mark Adams

Mark Adams has been a full-time resident of Provincetown/Truro since 1991, working as a coastal geoscientist and cartographer for the National Park Service and as an exhibiting painter (showing at the Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown since 2000). He has taught workshops on outdoor drawing, painting, science, and nature at the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown Art Association, and Castle Hill Center for the Arts, and has participated in mentoring programs at Provincetown Schools for many years.

Cappotto’s work is in PAAM’s Permanent collections and she has received multiple awards and prizes for her mixed media constructions from Europe and USA.

Karen Cappotto is the Lillian Orlowsky William Freed Grant recipient for painting in 2011, and has been included in the Land and Sea Contemporary Artists, by Deborah Forman. Cappotto is a long time resident of Provincetown where she maintains her painting and design studios. In 2011 her company Peg+Dick was launched onto the national stage when Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams asked her to produce their decoupage accessories. Her work has been seen in Elle Decor, The Washington Post, Provincetown Arts, This Old House, and at Rockefeller Center.

AMP Gallery currently represents her work.

Cappotto is a founding member of The Commons.

 Founder and president of The Impact Seat, Clarke has been investing in emerging technologies, including medical devices, for almost a decade. To date, Clarke has invested in more than 60 companies and 12 funds in North America and Europe. She has been creating opportunities for under-represented entrepreneurs by investing in companies that are either led by women of color or have women on their funding teams – even before it became fashionable to do so. As a key member of the investment community, she also advises entrepreneurs and innovators on launching companies, accessing capital, and leveraging the international network of investors. 

Barbara serves on several boards, including Portfolia, an investment fund focused on women as venture capitalists, Founders First Capital Partners, an accelerator and finance firm that invests in a diverse group of founders and Boost, an artificial intelligence (AI) platform using computer vision technology. 

Prior to launching The Impact Seat, Clarke spent more than a decade in management consulting firms, including KPMG and PwC and launched a nationwide nonprofit to support grieving children. She holds a bachelor’s degree in quantitative economics from Tufts University and master’s in international economics and finance from Brandeis University.  A polyglot, she speaks several languages, including German, French and Italian.

When she is not scoping out promising startups to invest in, Clarke enjoys exploring new cities, supporting local artists and listening to alternative/indie rock. 

Mike Dillon
Treasurer

Mike Dillon is a board officer, strategic advisor, and former executive with a background in corporate and nonprofit organizations. As a former partner at PwC, Mike helped clients attain their goals through his advice concerning mergers and acquisitions, audits and accounting. In 2016, he was chosen for a three-year term on PwC’s senior leadership team as Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer. Mike concluded his career with PWC after 33 years in 2020.

 In his nonprofit work, Mike has served as a board member, officer, and executive committee member on The Trevor Project, the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, United Way of the Bay Area, Project Open Hand, GLAAD and a trustee of the PwC Foundation. He is an advisory board member of the Equality Fund of the Boston Foundation and the Harvard Carr Center Global LGBTQ Human Rights Program.

Michael attained a Master of Public Health degree from the T.H. Chan School at Harvard University and a Bachelor of Arts in Accounting from New York University. In 2021, he completed a fellowship at Harvard’s Advanced Leadership Initiative in which he focused on public health equity.

Lisa Farnsworth

Lisa feels a deep connection to the outer Cape. It has felt like home to her since she was a child. She and her extended family have spent every summer in the Cape since 1965. 

Lisa serves as a director on the board of the Shippy Foundation, a family foundation devoted to closing the opportunity gap for under served populations in Boston, New York, and Chicago. She holds a BA in English literature from Wesleyan University, and an MSW from Simmons School of Social Work.

Lisa is married and has two grown children. She has lived year round in Truro since 2016.  She is a landscape painter, and an animal lover. She shares her home with two Newfoundlands and a large cat. The beauty and love in her life are things she never takes for granted.

 ALICE GONG

Alice Gong is the Program Director of Twenty Summers, a Provincetown arts non-profit, where she oversees residencies, multiple programming efforts, summer concert series and all audience engagement. She also works at the Ptown Farmers Market, organizes community beach volleyball and travels to coach for Beyond the Boundaries, a women's snowboarding camp. Alice was born in Beijing and graduated with a degree in Art History from UC Santa Barbara.

 After graduating from Princeton University with a BA in Political Science, Terrence worked in publicity in the wine, food and fashion industries before owning and operating The Raven Resort Properties in New Hope, PA. One of his favorite passions has been dedicating his time and talents to the many nonprofit organizations he has worked with over the years including his extensive service on nearly a dozen Board of Directors. He has served as Board Chair of The Provincetown Commons, God’s Love We Deliver, The New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care, Threshold Foundation and The Urban Beekeeping Laboratory. Although Terrence is currently based in New York City, he and his partner Breton spend as much time as they can at their homes in Provincetown, MA and New Orleans, LA.

Projects designed and executed under his management included Investcorp headquarters in London, Emory University Woodruff library in Atlanta, Headquarters for Philips Color Kinetics in Boston, and renovation of the Harvard Medical School Countway Library in Boston. Mr. Monnahan graduated from the University of Oregon School of Architecture and received his Masters degree in Architecture from the Southern California Institute of Architecture.

Rebecca Orchant

VICE PRESIDENT

Rebecca Orchant is the co-owner of POP+DUTCH, and sandwich shop in the West End of Provincetown, with her husband, Sean Gardner. Until they moved to Provincetown to start POP+DUTCH, Rebecca wrote about food for HuffPost Taste. They always knew they wanted to own a sandwich shop together, and over the years it became increasingly clear that Provincetown was where they wanted to do it. So here they are! With your sandwiches!

Jill Rothenberg-Simmons

Jill Rothenberg-Simmons is the co-owner of Presley + Rothenberg Fine Art Consulting and On Center Gallery. Jill spent many years in the design industry where she began working as an Interior Designer and concluded her career as the Managing Leader of a prominent Boston design firm. She now focuses her energy on her creative pursuits and helping others fill their homes and businesses with art.

Jill holds a BFA from Alfred University in Ceramics and studied Interior Design at the Boston Architecture Center. She thrives by being immersed with the art world, whether in the gallery or at her studio.

Jos Stumpe

After more than twenty years having put his creativity into translating other people’s ideas into word and image, Jos Stumpe began incorporating making art in his daily practice. At first his medium was ceramics; he did a BA Ceramic Design in Glasgow, Scotland. When he and his family in 2011 decided to move from Amsterdam in The Netherlands to New York City, he gave up his professional career as a writer and editor and immersed himself in the world of art.

At the National Academy School in New York, during a two-year Studio Intensive program, he explored other mediums: sculpture, painting, and printmaking. Always open to new challenges, enjoying his own studio space in Chelsea, Stumpe dived into the world of Mokuhanga, the Japanese technique of water-based woodblock printing. During the lockdown due to Covid-19, he started drawing with oil pastels. Over the years Stumpe created a body of work that is abstract in composition and has a great sense of color. His visual conversations ask the viewer to push the boundaries of abstract art, finding the personal in the non-representational.

In the summer of 2023 Stumpe found a new challenge in giving his artwork a second life by transferring it to fabrics and making clothes, bags and table decoration. A new design label was created: Wear My Art by Jos. With this turn of events, he came full circle back to one of his hobbies when he was a child: drawing fashion models.

Jos Stumpe and his wife Karen van Bergen divide their time between New York City and Provincetown.

Staff

 She has collaborated with numerous nonprofits and businesses on the Outer Cape, sits on the Advisory Committee for Cape Cod Museum Trail, and was Chair of the Provincetown Cultural Council from 2021 - 2023. In 2022, she was a MassCreative Create the Vote Fellow and in 2023, a graduate of the Institute for Nonprofit Practice Core Certificate Leadership Program. In 2023/2024 she administered the Outer Cape Winter Wednesdays program, in collaboration with Outer Cape town departments. Lesley currently serves on the Creative Exchange steering committee for Arts Foundation of Cape Cod, and in October 2023 published a contributing chapter to  "Dimensions of Curation: Considering Competing Values for Intentional Exhibition Practices.” After a long and beautiful stint renting an adorable apartment on Pleasant Street, Lesley purchased a home with her partner in Wellfleet in 2023, and now spends her weekend mornings drinking coffee and doing the crossword in the woods.

In 2024, Dave completed the Institute for Nonprofit Practice’s Core Certificate Leadership Program, further strengthening his commitment to community-centered leadership. He is also the producer and creative director of the Commons’ annual Fashion Show, one of Provincetown’s most celebrated cultural events.

A native New Englander, Dave has lived on Cape Cod for more than 12 years. He brings a deep understanding of the opportunities and challenges of sustaining creative and business practices on the Outer Cape. Known for developing programs that respond directly to community needs, Dave collaborates with nonprofit partners to provide members with educational, professional, and creative resources.

Dave believes strongly in the power of accessible, affordable, and inclusive spaces to foster creativity, collaboration, and productivity. His passion for the arts, coupled with his leadership experience, continues to nurture Commons members’ practices while supporting both personal and professional growth.