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.
Tisbury Travel Club
The Tisbury Travel Club is headed to Boston, the Museum of Fine Arts to be exact.
The club will be heading out on Jan. 10 leaving on the 8:15 a.m. boat and returning at 5 p.m.
The cost for the trip to Boston is $42, which includes admission to the museum. The travel club is a nonprofit organization and anyone can take part in the trip.
For more information on the current special exhibits showing at the museum visit mfa.org.
To make a reservation, call 508-696-4205.
Artist Deborah T. Colter of Edgartown will be opening her studio to the public on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 26 and 27 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
There will be an opening reception on Saturday, Nov. 27 from 5 to 7 p.m. for the annual Small Wonders art show at the Louisa Gould Gallery at 54 Main street in Vineyard Haven
The featured artists include Doug Kent, John Holladay, Anthony Benton Gude, Laura Roberts, Maya Farber, Leslie Kenny, Kathryn Wronski, Charles Fran Kenney and Louisa Gould. Mediums represented will be paintings, jewelry, bronze sculpture and glass
For more information visit louisagould.com or call 508-693-7373.
There will be an opening reception for the Martha’s Vineyard Museum’s newest exhibit, When This You See, Remember Me: Samplers from the Museum Collection, on Saturday, Nov. 27 from 3 to 5 p.m.
Samplers were often created to signify a rite of passage for young girls. The sampler was a way to show off skill, record important family information and convey morality through a verse or two.
Paintings by Claudio Gasparini are currently being shown at the Treehouse Gallery in West Tisbury. Part of a private collection, the paintings exhibit the rich color and vibrancy typical of many post-impressionist European artists. Originally from Venice, Italy, Mr. Gasparini has painted on Martha’s Vineyard for many years.
Included in this exhibition are scenes from Italy as well as colorful rooster paintings and still-life compositions. A highlight of the show incudes a large oil painting of the Edgartown lighthouse in winter.
Ah, to be free from over identifying with a particular technique or modality. Seems impossible really, since we are such a programmable species falling into ruts and routines as naturally as breathing.
But if looking for a way out, how about looking at art designed to free the viewer from any such constraints. The idea is eclecticism and the maker is visiting artist Domingo Pagan, born in Puerto Rico and educated in New York city and Boston.
