More than meets the eye at Knowhere Art and Cousen Rose Galleries
There are art openings galore during the summer on the Vineyard. But Valerie Francis of the Knowhere Art Gallery and Center of Knowhere and Zita Cousens of Cousen Rose Gallery have planned a robust...
‘The 100 Languages of Children’
“The 100 Languages of Children” teems with the creativity of Garden Gate Child Development
Center students and alumni, as well as youth from Featherstone’s Children’s Art Program, the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School, M.V. Community...
Freedom of expression
According to an article in The MV Times, the number of students at the Chilmark School has nearly doubled in 15 years. The increase in population has meant that the current preschool has been...
Student resilience in the “Art of Conservation”
Out of the mouths of babes is a phrase that comes to mind at the Vineyard Conservation Society’s (VCS) newest exhibition, “Resilience.” The show is the result of an annual student art and writing...
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 of the work of acclaimed artist Linda Besse is currently...
Students create a ‘Soulful Showcase’ at the Galaxy Gallery
Student voice and student choice are at the heart of the impressive new exhibition “Soulful Showcase,” at the Galaxy Gallery through May 19.
The opening was abuzz as students, faculty, and guests mingled about the...
Featherstone blooms in ‘The Art of Flowers’
An abundance of bountiful blossoms fill “The Art of Flowers.” Glorious pieces in all shapes, sizes, and media abound in Featherstone Center for the Art’s sunlit Francine Kelly Gallery. Even spring’s fragrances are hinted...
Sea full of shoefish
Invention is an elemental ingredient in David Joseph’s life, as an artist, physician, engineer — and inventor. His show, “The Wild World of Found Object Art,” curated by Featherstone Center for the Arts at...
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 Street Gallery in Edgartown, those life experiences are as unique...
‘Twilight Haze’: Vineyard-inspired visions
Tachina Rudman-Young’s arresting exhibit is more than a visual experience. Her show, curated by Featherstone Center for the Arts at the Feldman Family Artspace in the MV Film Center, teems with arresting, nature-inspired paintings....
‘You have to put your soul into it’
Romilda Marçal Pinto’s eclectic art speaks of hope, beauty, and goodwill: “I think painting is something you must do from your heart.” In subject and material, it all comes from her soul.
“Whatever you do,...
‘Art Adventures’
Artists Elizabeth Whelan and Adriana Eftimie took time off from their busy painting careers to create a delightful, upbeat, and educational 12-episode television show, “Art Adventures.” These slightly irreverent half-hour segments air at 6...
The ebb and flow of nature
Some artists take views of the sea and land as inspiration for their work. Kathy Poehler literally draws from the Island’s waters to create her beautiful seaweed collages, on exhibit at the Oak Bluffs...
‘Take Flight’ at Featherstone
The 40 artists in Featherstone Center for the Art’s exhibition have truly let their imaginations take flight. The show of the same title, on view through April 28, is far more than a simple...
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 selection of Chaunce's drawings and paintings that are built upon...
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,” the artwork “focuses on femininity and nature,” and “embraces the...
Phree flowing at Feldman Family Art Space
Classy and chaotic at the same time: The exhibit “ArtByPhree: Negative Space” is extraordinary by any stretch of the imagination. The artist Phree Claudio’s work, while it sits on two-dimensional canvases, takes us to...
Wood works
Woodworker Nicolas Esposito grew up in Scituate, and moved to the Vineyard with his wife Casey about four years ago. His interest in woodworking came pretty naturally to him. “I grew up in a...
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 with photographs of the last curated dance piece that Pathways...
Traveling the world in black-and-white
Teresa Kruszewski’s new exhibition at the West Tisbury library, “Moments in Time,” records the world as she has seen it over the course of her photography career. We travel through places and times, seeing...