Sail Martha’s Vineyard’s Maritime Art Show is receiving an enthusiastic response from the community. The open house reception this past Sunday night welcomed more than 60 guests to the Sail MV building on Main street in Vineyard Haven, where gifts and work produced by 21 artists are on display.
More than 14 pieces have been sold, raising funds for Sail MV to continue its sailing and rowing programs on the Island. The show will run through Dec. 22.
Up-Island Pottery is having a moving sale on Sunday, Oct. 7, selling discontinued styles, patterns and colors.
Candy Shweder is opening a new studio on the Island. She has been selling her wares for more than 20 years at both the Chilmark Flea Market and more recently at the Vineyard Artisans Shows, where she will continue to sell.
Artist Lynn Christoffers is exhibiting photographic work prints from two current book projects — Children on the Vineyard, and Cats on the Vineyard.
The works in progress by Ms. Christoffers, of West Tisbury and New York city, are on show at M. M. Stone Fine Art on State Road in West Tisbury, from Saturday, Sept. 29 through Tuesday, Oct. 30.
The gallery is open every day from 1 to 5 p.m. and by appointment. For details, call 508-693-0396.
Four Generations Art Gallery opened its second annual Hudson River this weekend, yet in the coming weeks the gallery will continually add new works featuring the river, its cliffs its now-vanished fishermen and its now transformed views of new York city.
The Ortlip family maintained a studio for over 50 years atop the New Jersey Palisades, overlooking the river and the glittering lights of New York city. Paul Ortlip, father of gallery director Michele Ortlip, created a huge series of paintings and drawings depicting the Hudson River.
Few people ever see the raw notes - the raw thoughts - of a writer they admire. They don't know the handwriting of a favorite novelist or journalist, or what kind of notebook, grade of paper or color of ink the writer prefers. But every writer has a process of transmitting thoughts into printed words. It's an unselfconscious process, since only the finished product will ever be seen.
That is, in part, why the new body of work by nationally acclaimed Island-based painter Cindy Kane is so bewitching.
An exhibition of 11 works from the Blur Series of photographic triptychs by Valerie Sonnenthal is presented at the West Tisbury library until Sept. 23 during regular library hours.
An art show featuring the work of the Island’s senior community will be held on Wednesday, Sept. 19 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Tisbury Senior Center, located at 34 Pine Tree Road in Vineyard Haven. Entry categories are painting, photography, folk art, knitting, quilting, ceramics and wood. There is no entry charge. Entrants must register by Sept. 14 by calling Sandy at 508-696-4205, Monday to Friday.
The Pequot Hotel is getting ready for its annual art exhibition. For the past seven years the Pequot has hosted an art show displaying many of the Island’s new and seasoned artists as well as others from Rhode Island and New York.
This year’s two-day exhibition will open Saturday, Oct. 13 with an artists’ reception from 6 to 8 p.m. It closes on Sunday. Anyone interested in being a part of this year’s exhibition should contact the hotel at 508-693-5087.
Several years ago Featherstone Center for the Arts introduced a gallery show featuring out-of-the-mainstream art, filled by artists who practiced what they felt was important, not what sold.
The show proved a success, and now Featherstone devotes one gallery show to the unconventional art created by Island artists. Titled The Other Side of Vineyard Art: Not Beaches and Boats, this year’s exhibition opens this Sunday, Sept. 16 with a wide array of creations, many never before exhibited.
