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.
With a quiet, unerring regularity, two groups of life drawing artists have congregated at Featherstone Center for the Arts in Oak Bluffs each and every week for years, slowly improving their ability to conjure living, breathing images out of flat white paper.
The best work from members of both the Tom Maley and the Firehouse figure drawing groups will go on display this Sunday, May 31, in Faces and Figures, an exhibition at Featherstone’s Virginia Weston Gallery.
The opening reception is Sunday from 4 to 6 p.m. All are welcome.
Benefit Art Show at Agricultural Hall This Weekend
What is art? Find out at the annual Friends of Family Planning art show benefit this weekend at the Agricultural Hall in West Tisbury, where featured Island artists and craftsmen will show and sell paintings, sculpture, photography, jewelry. The weekend-long event began with an opening gala and preview yesterday with food prepared by Jan Buhrman from The Kitchen Porch and music provided by Jeremy Berlin.
While much of the world is donning masks at the thought of a certain airborne contagion, the swine will soar with pride this Saturday, when the Eisenhauer Gallery holds a special exhibit, When Pigs Fly, from 6 to 8 p.m., at 38 North Water street in Edgartown.
Owner Elizabeth Eisenhauer explains, “We are blending the strength of renowned artist Cheri Christensen, an important American painter, with the need for educational funds for Island children to learn where food comes from.”
Louisa Gould Show
The Louisa Gould Gallery welcomes all to its renovated space, for an artists’ reception for a group show on Saturday, May 23, from 6 to 8 p.m. Live music and refreshments will welcome returning artists to the gallery’s seventh season: John Holladay, Alan Eddy, Howard Park, Maya Farber, Ovid Ward, Laura Roberts, Ellen Liman, Leslie S. Smith, Jules Worthington, Caryn King, Louisa Gould and Kate Huntington.
The gallery is located on Main street in Vineyard Haven.
A new show at the award-winning Dragonfly Gallery in Oak Bluffs, entitled Beginnings, offers a sampling of the broad range of work from the 25 regional and national artists that the gallery is representing throughout the summer and into the fall. An opening reception with refreshments and beverages will be held on Saturday, May 23 from 5 to 7 p.m.
Gallery owner Don McKillop comments that he is very pleased to be offering fresh work from Dragonfly’s familiar artists, as well as work from artists who are new to the gallery this season.
