In a tiny cottage dotted with colorful buoys, nestled in the front yard of her Vineyard Haven home, Marnie Stanton has hung a handful of her colorful abstract sculptures, made from driftwood and colorful electrical wire and theatre gels. The pieces are only a tiny sliver of the complete body of work — some 30 sculptures in all, with many more to come.

The Louisa Gould Gallery is offering an oil painting workshop on Tuesday, August 3 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. with Christopher Pendergast.

The workshop will begin with a brief demonstration on starting a painting in oils including; set up, materials, laying out a palette, and choosing a subject matter. Blocking out space, the correct use of medium, and drawing with brushes and paint will also be covered. Attendees will then work in the materials of their choice.

Drawing and painting teacher Janice Frame had reason to be proud of Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School senior Lonni Philips’ success last week at Featherstone Center for the Arts. Ms. Philips has, after all, been a student of Ms. Frame’s since kindergarten, when her work most likely consisted of finger paintings and play dough sculptures.

It’s Double Features at the Shaw Cramer Gallery for the summer season. The first double show — one on each level — opens with an artists’ reception on Friday, July 2, from 6 to 8 p.m.

The main gallery show will introduce the abstract expressionist paintings of Marie-Louise Rouff, with Kari Lønning’s baskets and Christian Brown’s furniture.

Memorial Day weekend is almost here, and along with it, the annual Friends of Family Planning Art Show Benefit. This event supports the Family Planning of Martha’s Vineyard clinic, which provides reproductive health and family planning services to our community.

The Eisenhauer Gallery’s second exhibit of the season, entitled Embody, opens Thursday, July 15, with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. with libations and live music by Mike Benjamin

This collection of art encases figurative works from Kathy Jones, Justin Taylor, Jylian Gustlin, Melinda Morrison, Rebecca Kinkead and the gallery’s newest artist, Carol Bennett. The exhibit correlates the very distinctive styles of our artists through their shared thematic interpretations of “the body.”

Roberta Gross will host an opening reception today, Friday, June 11 from 4 to 6 p.m. for an exhibit of her abstract paintings at the Chilmark branch of the Bank of Martha’s Vineyard on South Road. The exhibit will run through June 18.

In her art, Ms. Gross plays with colors, textures, shapes and lines, arranging and rearranging fragments of paper she has created by stamping, burning, splattering, embossing and texturing with gels and acrylic pastes.

In connection with the Martha’s Vineyard Museum’s current exhibit From Concept to Canvas: Selected Works of Stanley Murphy, noted Island artists and friends including Kib Bramhall, Tess Bramhall, Bob Doran, Allen Whiting and Rez Wiliams are coming together to discuss the painter’s life, work and influence at Thursday, August 5 at 5:30 p.m. at the Federated Church in Edgartown.

Led by the museum’s chief curator, Bonnie Stacy, the panel will give the audience an insight into the life of the Vineyard artist.

Throughout their lives, they have been labeled with various syndromes and conditions. They experience the world in a way that is different from the bulk of society and from each other. But this Saturday, March 20, from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Vineyard Haven Baptist Church parish house, they will all share one label: they are artists.

How and why does an artist make the move from representational to abstract art? For recent washashore MarieLouise Rouff, it was about making friends with a machine.