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.
When an art gallery and a cultural salon stays in business for 30 years in a vacation resort that, for nine months of the year, is a hibernacula (a term used for colonies of torpid bats in winter caves), then there is every reason to expect that the proprietor, in this case, Zita Cousens of Cousen Rose Gallery at 71 Circuit avenue in Oak Bluffs, knows what she’s doing.
The Island plein air artists in Dragonfly Gallery’s Summer Visions show raised $400 for Martha’s Vineyard Habitat for Humanity. Sixteen artists each paid an entry fee of $25 as a contribution to Habitat: Monte Becker, William Buckley, Traeger di Pietro, Mary Emerson, Valentine Estabrook, Nancy Furino, Susan Johnson, Magi Leland, Ellen Liman, Kanta Lipsky, Thaw Malin, Marjorie Mason, Don McKillop, June Schoppe, Elizabeth Taft and Linda Thompson. A portion of the sales from the show will be donated to Island Affordable Housing Trust.
Saturday night at PikNik and beats are spinning from a deejay’s turntables, blaring outside the bounds of the gallery’s backlot. A crowd in their taste-maker threads, eating from the retro the ArtCliff Diner truck, is gathered in small town Oak Bluffs to see cityscapes. The scene at PikNik’s Urban Show demonstrated the transience of the urban mindset, its ability to be transplanted even to a mostly rural Island.
Landscapes at Dragonfly
Dragonfly Gallery’s Treasures to Preserve show, which runs through August 23, features artists Elizabeth Lockhart Taft and Ann Christensen. Their paintings reflect contemplation, intuition and analysis of landscapes, while each artist employs a different color palate and approach.
Refreshments will be served on Saturday and Sunday, August 15 and August 16.
Once again the Field Gallery in West Tisbury features artists of Barbara Wylan and Ron Gee.
Barbara Wylan was born in Providence, R.I. in 1933, and received her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design in 1955. Her home and studio are located on Cape Cod’s north side in Barnstable village. Primarily a landscape painter, Barbara works in pastel, acrylics, and watercolor. Her brother is popular Vineyard conservationist Bob Woodruff.
Renowned Printmaker
On Saturday, August 15, the Granary Gallery in West Tisbury will welcome the renowned printmaker Lou Stovall with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m.
Born in Athens, Ga., in 1937, Mr. Stovall grew up in Springfield. He studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and at Howard University. Since 1962, he has lived and worked in Washington, D.C.
His drawings and silkscreen prints have brought him grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Stern Family Fund.
