The fall season of adult classes at Featherstone Center for the Arts in Oak Bluffs begins this week, and includes three new ceramics classes: Basic Hand-Building and Wheelthrowing to Make Household Items with ceramic artist and teacher Frank Creney is on Wednesday nights, and Washington Ledesma will teach Hand-Building Ceramic Tiles on Tuesday evenings, as well as a Ceramic Gift Giving Workshop coming up in December. These additions are making for a very ceramic season at Featherstone. Additionally, Frank Folts Jr. continues to offer wheelthrowing on Monday evenings and the popular open pottery studio continues on Wednesday afternoons from 2 to 5 p.m. and Thursday evenings from 7 to 10 p.m. In addition, Featherstone and Adult Community Education are cosponsoring Scott Campbell’s Introduction to Ceramics class, culminating in a kiln-firing in the large outdoor brick kiln.

Jack Greene, Introduction to Airbrush Painting and Wall Sculpture instructor, is also offering two new workshops: Soapstone Carving on Tuesday, Oct. 13 and Stencil-Making on Saturday, Oct. 24.

Several holiday gift-making workshops are debuting this year: Betty Wolfson, recycling artist and teacher, offers two Saturday cardmaking workshops, Oct. 17 and Oct. 24. Gabriella Camilleri will teach Pretty Bird Ornaments and Special Holiday Stockings on Thursday, Nov. 5, Stained Glass Stars on Tuesday, Nov. 10 and Clothes Pin Dolls on Thursday, Nov. 12. Sarah Young of Vineyard Sky Bead Design offers a Holiday Ornament Class on Saturday, Dec. 5 and a two-day Needle-Woven Textured Bracelet workshop on two consecutive Saturdays, Nov. 14 and 21. The Rev. Judy Campbell will host a Christmas Star Quilting Weekend, Nov. 21 and 22. Rev. Judy Campbell also coordinates the Thursday afternoon Prayerful Knitting . . . with a Purpose knitting circle, creating hats, mittens and scarves for those in need here on Martha’s Vineyard.

Student favorites, including Drawing with Nancy Blank, Feltmaking with Christa Fischer, Flower Arranging with Else Membreno, Piano with Charles Blank, Native American Flute with Ronn Speed, Pastel Painting with Ellen McCluskey, Poetry with Donald Nitchie, Watercolor with John Holladay, Watercolor for Cowards with Carolyn Daniele, Digital Photography Tutorials with Kathy Rose and the Art of Tapestry with Julia Mitchell are all set to begin in these coming weeks of October. To preregister for a class or workshop, please visit Featherstone’s Web site, featherstoneart.org, or call Featherstone at 508-693-1850.