In public school, her teacher Cecelia Holmand saw her artistic talent and encouraged her to pursue art as a career.

Scaravaglione then spent the summer of 1928 in Oyster Bay, Long Island because she received the Lewis Comfort Tiffany grant.

In 1926, she was elected to be a member of the New York Society of Women Artists and produced a wooden sculpture titled "The Bathers."

[5] Due to her association with the WPA and FAP, Concetta Scaravaglione was one of twelve sculptors chosen to receive a commission for the Treasury Section of Painting and Sculpture.

Under this commission, Scaravaglione made four works: "Railway Mail Carrier, 1862", an aluminum figure located at the Post Office Department; "Agriculture," a limestone relief at the Federal Trade Commission; "Woman with Mountain Sheep," a large plaster figure at the Federal Building for the New York World's Fair; and "Aborigines," a wood carving relief for the Drexel Hill Post Office in Pennsylvania.

Scaravaglione had entered her sculpture "Girl with Gazelle" in the show, which received recognition on the covers of both Newsweek and Art Digest.

"Icarus," first seen in Rome, then housed at the Tishman Building, is now exhibited in the lobby of 60 Sutton Place in New York City.

After returning to the United States, Scaravaglione was hired in 1952 as a part-time faculty at Vassar College where she taught sculpture until she retired in 1967.