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Imagining Elsa

Most people who are familiar with the actress Elsa Lanchester remember her best for her role as “The Bride of Frankenstein” from the film...

Point of view

The Winter Street Gallery in Edgartown has kicked off its 2022 season with a show featuring work by three artists hailing from points around...

Vibrant and vivid

Having a renowned painter as your father and a writer as your mother, one is bound to develop an interest in the arts. That's...

An artful purpose

There are two things that Alexander Campbell is passionate about. One is keeping the Island streets, beaches, and wooded areas as trash-free as possible....

Enchanted ceramics

When one thinks of ceramics, very often the first thing that comes to mind is utilitarian mugs and bowls in earth-tone glazes — attractive...

Ending on a high note

The PathwaysARTS season will come to a close this coming weekend on a high note. Back-to-back nights of music will cap off the winter/spring...

Campground colors

“They're cheerful,” says Elizabeth Dolan Durkee of her latest series of photos — close-up shots of architectural details from Oak Bluffs Campground cottages, enhanced...

Art as narrative

Kristin Texeira refers to her work as “memory maps.” She creates abstract paintings that recreate or represent, in a sense, moments and moods from...

Innocence lost

The image may be one that you're familiar with. Four lifeless bodies lie facedown in the street, the aftermath of a Russian mortar blast...

Tale of two styles

Pathways Arts has undertaken a series of art shows incorporating artist talks this year. Currently, the organization is featuring the work of painters Walker...

Keeping it local

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Even with the ongoing construction project in downtown Oak Bluffs, there's calm among the chaos to be found in a trio of shops offering...

Healing art

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Anyone who's visited the Martha's Vineyard Hospital in the last few years knows that the walls are decorated throughout with original art. But did...

Knock, knock

You could send flowers or chocolates to that someone special in your life, or you could send a personalized message delivered by a friendly,...

New York, New York

Island filmmaker Victoria Campbell will fulfill a longtime dream of hers this month when a series of films that she curated will be featured...

One bad apple

Martha (“Sunny”) Kent-Holmes of Bad Apple MV is an artist who hasn't limited herself to one media. She makes jewelry, crocheted items, graphic T...

Natural beauty

While a number of Islanders have taken to fashioning jewelry from colorful quahog shells, Frank Rapoza of West Tisbury has taken the art form...

The struggle is real

With a new series of work, photographer Kayleigh Bollin has managed to present various aspects of mental illness pictorially. In her exhibit of 18...

‘Lighthearted’ likenesses

There's a lot of the past reflected in the work of artist Ed Schulman. Having grown up in Manhattan in the 1950s and ’60s...

Vanity fur

When Elizabeth Convery-Luce gets interested in a creative pursuit, she doesn't just dream about it or dabble at it, she pursues it wholeheartedly —...

Friendly finesse

Painting is a solitary pursuit. It involves getting into one's own head and heart to create something truly personal, and artists generally work alone...