The Seaworthy Gallery on Beach Road in Vineyard Haven will have a grand opening on Saturday, Nov. 15, from 4 to 8 p.m. This new photography gallery features the work of owner Jeffrey Serusa, and is located at 30 Beach Road, next to the Gannon and Benjamin boatyard and across from the Art Cliff Diner. For details, call 508-693-0153.
There are landmarks in an artist’s career. First there’s the initial sale of a piece of work. Then comes inclusion in a group show and, with any luck (and, of course, talent), the solo show. But the crowning glory arrives — often, alas, posthumously — when the artist’s work is presented in the hallowed halls of a museum.
Island artist, self-taught seaweed scientist and passionate personality Rose Treat turns 100 on Sunday, Dec. 7, and everyone is invited to a potluck birthday party celebration at the Agricultural Hall from 3 to 5:30 p.m.
A retrospective exhibition of watercolor works by well-traveled West Tisbury artist Ann Howes opens tomorrow at Featherstone Center for the Arts, including pieces from her past painting trips abroad, across the United States and the Island. í
Artist Anne Grandin calls herself a spiritualist, specifically a Native American spiritualist. This belief system drives the flowing, circular rhythms in her paintings — which have been exhibited here at Carol Craven Gallery, Featherstone Center for the Arts and the Old Sculpin Gallery — and it fits neatly, too, with her latest project, the Tisbury mural, which will take its place on the expansive wall on the Stop & Shop come spring.
The Carol Craven Gallery has hung its latest exhibition, featuring artwork by gallery artists J. Christian Snedeker, Nancy Furino, Rita Stern, Roger Phillips, Claire Chalfoun, Ann Grandin, John Evans, Gretchen Feldman and others.
There is a selection of American Modernist works by Benton, Gropper, Curry, Grosz and Lawrence, as well as paintings by South African artists Beezy Bailey and Usen Obot. Also featured is a major pastel by renowned artist David Hollowell, and a marvelous print by Faith Ringgold.
The Carol Craven Gallery will be open Friday and Saturday of Thanksgiving weekend, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Breakdown Lane in Vineyard Haven.
Haven Cutler has put together a grouping of paintings, sculpture, handmade ornaments and prints for holiday shopping, with a range of affordable prices. The gallery will be open by appointment at other times for your convenience, by calling 508-693-5792.
This year’s ninth annual art exhibition at the Pequot Hotel will be held from tomorrow, Saturday, Oct. 4 through next Sunday, Oct. 12. The opening reception will be tomorrow from 6 to 8 p.m. Ten per cent of all sales will be donated to the Oak Bluffs library in memory of artist Betty Boyd who died last winter.
Island Elderly Housing held its first artists and craftsmen show last week at the Woodside Village II Community Room in Oak Bluffs. The show featured painting, sculpture, photography, ceramics, needlepoint, books and cards and other crafts — all work of residents in Vineyard Haven and Oak Bluffs.
Up-Island potter Candy Shweder is opening her studio on Sunday, Oct. 12 from 5 to 7 p.m. There will be pottery demonstrations, wine, cheese and huge reductions on discontinued patterns and items. Candy Shweder studied ceramics in Chicago and California. She has been selling since 1986. She sold her work at the Chilmark Flea Market for 20 years and has been doing the Vineyard Artisans shows for 11 years.
