Co-Executive Director, Curator, and Founder (visual artist + educator)

Anastaci Pacella is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works as an artist in Barnstable. Anastaci received her BFA of Art Education from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and an MFA of Visual Art at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She has participated in and curated exhibitions in Vermont , Pittsburgh, and on Cape Cod. Anastaci’s work explores questions about the female gaze, sensuality, and domesticity.

Anastaci founded The Cordial Eye in 2019 in part due to a need to display her own, somewhat scandalous work, but mostly because she sensed a need in the community for a space for people who have been left out of the dominant culture on the Cape. She is deeply committed to creating the Cape she needed when she was young and a space of belonging for the weird, the smart, the creative, and the cast aside.

Co-Executive Director (musician + educator)

Mary George is a singer, songwriter, music educator, and arts administrator, originally from Brentwood, NY. After close to decade of performing and teaching, she became interested in using the arts as a catalyst for equity and justice, which led her to work as a community arts school administrator. Mary is a deep believer that the superpower of the arts is its ability to lead the human community toward encounter and empathy; both for one another and our own selves. Mary is excited to be part of The Cordial Eye; she is proud to work with an organization that is unflinching in its commitment to creating a vibrant and inclusive Cape Cod. She is especially thankful for an organizational culture that centers the historically-excluded and works by, for, and with the local community. Mary lives in Yarmouth Port with her husband, Chris, and her two young daughters, Stella Maris and Guadalupe.