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.

Carol Craven Opens Today

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.

Elderly Art Show

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.

The Louisa Gould Photography and Gallery annual holiday party is on Saturday, Dec. 27 from 4 to 6 p.m. A new exhibit, The Portrait Paintings of John Holladay and Louisa Gould, will be on view. Other artists showing new works at this time are: Anne McGhee, Meg Mercier, Rachael Paxton, Ovid Osborn Ward, Marjorie Mason, Ed Cohen, Russell Carson, Debi Gero, Donna Blackburn, Gail Rodney, Robert Jewett, Caryn King, Leslie Smith, Jeanne Campbell, James Murray, Laura Roberts, Steve London, Janet Messineo, Jeffrey P’an, Maya Farber and Gray Park.

Begin with a teapot. That’s the simple underlying premise for a group exhibition at Featherstone Center for the Arts opening Saturday, Sept. 6, entitled Teapots and More.

“The main thing needs to be a teapot,” ceramacist Washington Ledesma said, explaining that each artist who offers a teapot for the exhibit may bring up to four more pieces for display. If many artists bring many pieces, Mr. Ledesma hopes the show can spill out under a tent on the Featherstone grounds.

Jeanne Campbell — photographer, advisory board member of Featherstone Center for the Arts, and ardent supporter of the This I Believe series popularized by NPR’s Jay Allison — has invited artists to submit their own interpretations of This I Believe for an exhibition at the Oak Bluffs gallery.

All are invited to the opening reception on Sunday, Oct. 19, from 4 to 6 p.m. The show continues through Nov. 5.

“The challenge,” says Mrs. Campbell, “is trying to translate the belief into a visual form.”

Viva Nancy Luce! is the theme of a new show opening Sunday, Oct. 12, at Treehouse Studios in West Tisbury, with a reception from 1 to 4 p.m. The exhibit will feature works of art related to the life of Martha’s Vineyard’s eccentric folk hero who became known in the 1800s as the chicken lady.