Cassie Betro

Cassie’s passionate love of art began when she saw Winslow Homer’s ‘The Fog Warning’ at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, during a 2nd-grade Old Post Road School class trip. By the 3rd grade, Cassie befriended another artist, Danielle, who generously shared her knowledge of oil pastels and who would be the first of many mentors to help Cassie flourish as a lifelong artist. 

Her artistic journey has been shaped by atelier-style instruction in the Boston School tradition at Walpole High School, followed by a Bachelor of Fine Arts from MassArt in 1999, with a dual major in Painting and Art Education. She later earned a second BFA in Graphic Design and became a licensed Massachusetts art educator for grades 5–12. From 2018 to 2021, she further refined her classical drawing and painting skills at the Academy of Realist Art Boston, and has been studying at the Thomas R. Dunlay Teaching Studios in Norwood, MA since 2025.

Cassie worked as a tattoo artist and body piercer at Atomic Tattoos in Palm Harbor, FL, from 2012 to 2014, and has been working at Shrine Tattoo Studio since July 2025. She maintains annual certifications in Skin Anatomy and Physiology and Bloodborne Pathogens Training. An avid hiker and camper, she continually draws inspiration for her art from plants, bugs, and animals found in her surroundings and loves painting outdoors. She believes staying in tune with nature’s cycles keeps her work fresh and grounded in the now. In tattooing, she especially enjoys doing nerdy, whimsical, color tattoos.