On Monday nights at Featherstone Center for the Arts, it’s all about the music. This week, Johnny Hoy and the Bluefish embraced the outdoor stage as part of the ongoing Musical Monday series.

After a year away, Billy Collins returned to the Featherstone Center for the Arts on Tuesday evening to a hero’s welcome.

As the temperature rises and the Island prepares for summer, the Featherstone Center for the Performing Arts is getting ready to kick off a new and diverse season of events.

Ann Smith, the executive director of Featherstone Center for the Arts, was the recipient of the Tourism Award for Martha’s Vineyard.

On Sunday, March 15, Featherstone will host a reception from 4 to 6 p.m. for its latest opening, Take a Seat: The Chair Show.

Last summer, Isabella Morais got to thinking that teenage artists on the Island would benefit from a studio space where they could gather and create art. Her dream is becoming a reality with the Teen Art Cafe, a drop-in studio and classes for teenage artists that launches this week.

Featherstone’s first opening reception of 2015 features an Island favorite: sheep. All things woolly are included in the I Love Ewe: The Year of the Sheep Show.

Featherstone Center for the Arts in Oak Bluffs is beginning its 12th Holiday Gift Show with a preview show on Friday, Nov. 21, from 6 to 8 p.m.

On Saturday, Sept. 27, Featherstone is hosting an artists’ studio tour to provide an up close and personal look at the creative process.

You know you’ve always wanted to carve and forge. We all have. Featherstone Center for the Arts gives us the option. Its first-ever Iron on the Island event is on Saturday, Sept. 20, pretty much all day.