Eyes of the Island, an exhibit featuring 40 years of Vineyard Gazette photography, runs from Sept. 24 until Oct. 22 at Featherstone Center for the Arts.

With cheers, laughter and sighs, Billy Collins was welcomed back to Featherstone Center for the Arts Tuesday.

What goes best with soup? Art, of course.

More than 500 people came to see the opening of Big, the inaugural show of pieces by nearly 70 Vineyard artists at the newly opened Art Barn.

Featherstone’s new Art Barn opens Friday with a ribbon cutting and an opening reception for Big. The exhibit features large-scale works from more than 50 Island artists.

Featherstone is celebrating the grand opening of its new Art Barn on Friday, August 11.

In addition to the new art barn and pottery studio, a small chapel will soon make its way to the Featherstone Campus.

Thanks in part to an anonymous donation of $2.89 million, Featherstone has completed a new barn and pottery studio, greatly expanding facilities for the art center’s wide range of classes and events.

There was excitement in the air on Sunday as the ribbon was cut on a new pottery studio at Featherstone Center for the Arts.

The Martha’s Vineyard Museum and Featherstone Center for the Arts both announced this week that they had received capital grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council.