Gwyn McAllister
Mark Chester’s ‘Roadshow Anthropology’
For some, a cross-country trip means a chance to get a sense of life beyond the highways and byways. However, in his most recent...
Galaxy Gallery bids farewell
After six years of exhibiting the work of local artists on the Island, the Galaxy Gallery on Dukes County Avenue will be closing its...
One-day Rez Williams Retrospective
For 50-plus years, the late Rez Williams lived and worked as a painter on Martha's Vineyard, an Island he loved and sometimes depicted in...
Group show at Knowhere Gallery features Charly Palmer
Last year Chronicle Books released a unique anthology publication titled “The New Brownies’ Book: A Love Letter to Black Families.” The display-worthy keepsake book...
Light matter
As any artist knows, one of the hardest things to do is to capture light realistically — difficult enough with a variety of paint...
Filigree, flow, and flame: Jennifer McCurdy at Louisa Gould Gallery
When one thinks of pottery, the typical visual is chunky, sturdy, utilitarian pieces featuring colored glazing. That image is not at all what you...
Black female iconography
At first glance, the paintings of artist Daryl Royster Alexander, one of the featured artists in the current exhibit at the Granary Gallery, are...
Paper, pigment, and process — the medium is the message
Art Nouveau with an attitude; artist Meg Black uses a papermaking technique to emulate the dynamic quality of nature.
Black uses a very unusual process...
Old Sculpin’s 70th celebration
For the past four years, the historic Old Sculpin Gallery in Edgartown has been hosting a special event celebrating catboats, and the storied history...
Robert Fitzgerald exhibits texture and mood at Cousen Rose Gallery
Zita Cousens of the Cousen Rose Gallery has always made it a mission to diversify the subjects and media that she shows in the...
Seventy years from boatshop to catboats at Old Sculpin
The Old Sculpin Gallery, situated in a scenic spot directly across from the Chappy Ferry dock, will be celebrating its 70th anniversary this summer....
Linda Besse “Wild” shows at the Louisa Gould Gallery
Louisa Gould looks beyond Vineyard landscapes with the latest show hanging at her eponymous gallery on Main Street in Vineyard Haven. A solo exhibit...
Inner journeys at Winter Street Gallery
An artist's life experience informs and impacts their art. In the case of the three artists represented in the current exhibit at the Winter...
This season at the Playhouse
From an African American neighborhood in 20th century Oak Bluffs to 1800s Colorado Rockies, and with a Black New York City schoolteacher and the...
Kin at the core
What makes the Edgartown-based gallery and boutique Kin different from other businesses around town? Lisa Brown, who owns and operates the shop along with...
Shapes and optical illusions at the West Tisbury library
“I really have a fascination with geometry and geometric shapes,” says artist Rob Chaunce. “I'm especially drawn to repeating patterns and three-dimensional designs.”
Currently, a...
Collaborative culmination
A very special event to be hosted by Pathways Arts this weekend is, as of this writing, in the process of percolating in the...
Island artist Bernica Wilcox gives us ‘The Gaze of a Woman’
Island artist Bernica Wilcox has a series of paintings featured at the Vineyard Haven library through April 2024. Titled “The Gaze of a Woman,”...
Broad selection in the current Pathways exhibit
The Pathways Art Space in Chilmark is currently brimming with art — pieces from eight Island artists working in a variety of media, along...
Books and music
MVY Radio, the nonprofit radio station located in West Tisbury, and broadcasting throughout the world via internet, is currently hosting something that's a bit...