Walls and tables lining the hallways of the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School were filled with artwork Wednesday night, as Island art lovers came out in force to admire the paintings, drawings, and sculpture put out by the talented student body for this year’s Evening of the Arts.

“It was a lot of people,” said Janice Frame, an art teacher at the high school, after the event. “The community really came out, and that’s always encouraging, for students as well as for us because it takes a lot for us to put the show together.”

The doors of the high school Performing Arts Center opened to a room crowded with display walls, each boasting highlights from the art portfolios of different graduating seniors. Senior Phoebe Kelleher, just back from a two-month stint in Africa, displayed a collection of color and black and white photographs from the Vineyard and abroad. There were pictures of elephants walking in line, tail to trunk, shots from a Kenyan orphanage, and serene photos of a girl sitting, legs stretched on a dock overlooking the water on the Vineyard.

Maggie Howard’s wall was covered by works of all shapes and sizes — tiny untitled collages and sketches, eerie color photographs, hand-written poems. Nearby, Abbey Entner’s wall was filled with photos in color and black and white of various Vineyard scenes: a curious cat, a lonely lobster pot, birds taking flight from the high branch of a tree.

Down an adjacent hallway, photographer Kira Shipway displayed pictures of exotic buildings, colorful roadways, and native landscapes to document her experience at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco.

The artwork stretched on through the winding hallways of the art department wing of the high school. Several display walls were covered with award-winning pieces from various newspaper contests, including the Boston Globe Scholastic Art Awards and a Cape Cod Times photography contest. Another display wall featured photographs of well-known Vineyard landmarks, taken from unusual angles, next to a sign asking viewers to guess the location.

Live music and dance performances were also on the agenda for the event. At 6:30, two students took their place on a small stage set up in the middle of one hallway to perform an acoustic version of Pink’s I’m Not Dead. Later, student Evan Hall accompanied friends onstage to perform on the bass drums to tunes like Ella Fitzgerald’s Lullaby of Birdland, and participated in a surprise musical mash-up of songs by KC and the Sunshine Band, to energize the crowd toward the end of the night.

The artwork included more than just photographs and watercolors. One table held half a dozen scale models of various office buildings, including a BMW shop and a Kodak store. The assignment asked students in an advanced architecture class to design a model for a 600-square-foot space.

Down a remote hallway, two students were hard at work on pottery wheels, surrounded by already-completed ceramic pots, bowls and vases glazed with blue, gray and green.

By the end of the event, a winner was chosen in the poster contest for the annual Friends of Family Planning Art Show, which kicks off on Thursday. The poster will feature a painting by student Lonnie Phillips.

“The kids just do beautiful things,” said Ms. Frame this week. “It was a strong show. We had a lot of talent.”