Silver Linings is the theme for the next community art show at Featherstone Center for the Arts, opening April 5. The Art of Flowers follows in May.
Today, Sept. 16, it’s a double bill from Renaissance House.
From noon to 6 p.m. the Shephard Fine ArtSpace in Oak Bluffs is hosting an art show featuring Renassaince House artists Virginia Deeds and Barbara Russell, aka the doodle queen.
Picture This
There will be an artist’s reception for Michael Kahn on Sept. 10 at 3 p.m. at the North Water Gallery located at 27 North Water street in Edgartown.
Mr. Kahn is a photographer whose work focuses on boats and nature. Images of antique boats from around the world and coastal landscapes are manipulated in the darkroom, resulting in the richly toned and technically advanced silver gelatin prints.
Dragonfly’s Featured Artist
Island painter Traeger di Pietro is the featured artist this week at Dragonfly Fine Arts Gallery in Oak Bluffs. A reception will be held for him at the gallery on Saturday, Sept. 10, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Mr. di Pietro’s work focuses on landscapes, seascapes and figurative imagery depicting the Island and its working fishermen. This year three off-Island galleries have also begun to show his work.
Al Hurwitz will speak to members and guests of Vineyard Village at Home on the art of children’s drawing on Thursday, Sept. 15, from 3:30 to 5 p.m. at the Chilmark Library.
Dr. Hurwitz is the author of Children and Their Art and has taught children from preschool to the Harvard graduate school of education. He is a recent recipient of the National Art Education’s Lifetime Achievement Award as well as a former Art Educator of the Year and is the former world president of INSEA, UNESCO’s International Society for Education Through Art.
Instead of just checking out art, how about getting to the heart of the matter by visiting the centers of creativity?
This Saturday, Sept. 10, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Featherstone Center for the Arts is hosting studio tours of the following artists: Deborah Colter, Stephanie Danforth, Jeri Dantzig, Traeger di Pietro, Anne D. Grandin, Washington Ledesma, Richard Lee, Steve Lohman, Julia Mitchell, Alison Shaw, Lucinda Sheldon, Jenifer Strachan, Jeanne Staples, Wendy Weldon, and Barney Zeitz.
To us an apt cliche, an embarrassment of riches, really.
Shephard Fine ArtSpace in Oak Bluffs is hosting the first of what hopefully will not be the last exhibition of its kind. The show features artists with Island connections who are showing for the first time on the Vineyard. They include Colin Ruel, Rick Lazes, Jonathan Klenner, Dylan Sean Murray, and Percy 14e Wright.
