The Louisa Gould Gallery welcomes all to its renovated space, for an artists’ reception for a group show on Saturday, May 23, from 6 to 8 p.m. Live music and refreshments will welcome returning artists to the gallery’s seventh season: John Holladay, Alan Eddy, Howard Park, Maya Farber, Ovid Ward, Laura Roberts, Ellen Liman, Leslie S. Smith, Jules Worthington, Caryn King, Louisa Gould and Kate Huntington.
The gallery is located on Main street in Vineyard Haven.
This Saturday night, August 8, is the second and final Oak Bluffs Arts District stroll of the summer. Among the many fine events and showings planned by the galleries and boutiques of Dukes County avenue is PikNik’s Urban Event, now in its second year.
This has not been exactly the type of winter the sailors of the Edgartown Yacht Club think of in connection with boats and sailing, so to keep the members happy, an art show was held on Friday.
It turns out that there are lots of artists, painters and sketchers who are members, so there were 22 entries. One of the artists was professional and sells her paintings all over the country, and that was Meg Mercier now of Edgartown. Another was semi-professional — Helen Bowring. The rest were just artists who painted for the love of it.
New Discoveries at the Shaw Cramer Gallery is the second special exhibit in the Spotlights 2009 series this summer. Ten new artists in the gallery are showcased, each bringing a new point of view. Melted glass flows over copper, patina enhances steel vessels, multi-use textural clay forms and sculptural tables of mahogany with maple are a few of the new concepts presented.
New Discoveries can be seen through July 17 in the upper gallery while the Wendy Weldon show continues through July 9 in the main gallery.
Boston Globe op-ed columnist Derrick Z. Jackson is on the Island for his photography exhibit, From Iowa to the White House.
It shows at Cousen Rose Gallery from Thursday through Sept. 11. Sponsored by the African American Museum of Boston, the exhibit is free and open to the public — but the photos, signed by Mr. Jackson, are for sale to benefit the museum’s youth programs. He will appear at the Oak Bluffs gallery on Thursday, August 27 and Friday, August 28 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. to meet visitors.
Landscapes and bird portraits by Chilmarker Jackie Mendez-Diez are on exhibit this month at Chilmark Free Public Library during regular hours. The large show includes oil paintings and watercolors, all completed in the past several years by the artist who has not shown here for two years. The exhibition will hang until April 30.
At one end of the Oak Bluffs Arts Stroll, at the glasswork studio of Jeri Dantzig, soothing harp music lured strollers into a colorful glass menagerie of assorted dishwares, barrettes, and other glass pieces. Dantzig’s first arts stroll appearance was slightly off the beaten path (on Vineyard Ave.), a fitting location for her glasswares, which feature funky greens and blues, loopy designs and stained glass platters. The homey environment was more friendly get-together than art opening,
While much of the world is donning masks at the thought of a certain airborne contagion, the swine will soar with pride this Saturday, when the Eisenhauer Gallery holds a special exhibit, When Pigs Fly, from 6 to 8 p.m., at 38 North Water street in Edgartown.
Owner Elizabeth Eisenhauer explains, “We are blending the strength of renowned artist Cheri Christensen, an important American painter, with the need for educational funds for Island children to learn where food comes from.”
Ask about Keith Farm, one of Island artist Ashley Medowski’s new works, and she says, “It’s a serene picture you can dive into.”
Diving in is exactly what you want to do with Medowski’s mixed media assemblages, works you might call paintings-plus.
Keith’s Farm features in the foreground a three-dimensional mosaic stonewall made out of tiny beach stones; if you could just dive past it, you could get to that pond and ocean flirting from the background.
The theme of this year’s Island Book Cover Art Contest, open to all Vineyard sixth grade students, is Island lighthouses. This will be the 19th annual cover competition sponsored by the Martha’s Vineyard Chamber of Commerce.
Here are the requirements: entries must be drawn with a horizontal layout, on 9-inch by 12-inch wide white paper, using only markers or crayons. Chalk, pencil or pen entries are not eligible.
