Carmine Scarpa

Carmine Scarpa's interest in the visual arts developed while an undergraduate Art History major at Saint Peter's College (now Saint Peter's University) in Jersey City. After graduating from Brooklyn Law School in 1983, his artistic endeavors became increasingly important to him. Mr. Scarpa's principal training in the visual arts has been in photography. He has taken workshops with internationally known artists and teachers, including photographers Eikoh Hosoe and Lois Greenfield. In 2001, Mr. Scarpa received the H. Juergen Thieck Memorial Award for Photography from the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey. He has also won numerous awards from social networking photography groups. His work is in private collections at home and abroad, and has been exhibited in New Jersey, New York, and elsewhere. In addition to delving into other visual arts, including painting and filmmaking, Mr. Scarpa has written several one-act plays (two had non-professional productions), poetry, and songs. In 2018, he completed a full-length musical with co-writers Thomas and John Thiel. Prior to becoming an attorney (now retired), he was employed as a commercial artist and performed as a musician and vocalist. In 2008, Mr. Scarpa published his memoir of childhood and youth entitled Save Me a Seat by the Drummer. His second book, Out of the Hand of God, describing his conversion to Judaism, and his thoughts on Judaism and Kabbalah, was published in 2013.