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.
The Carol Craven Gallery, located off Holmes Hole Road in Vineyard Haven, will be opening for its 14th season today, Friday, May 22.
Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday and Monday.
This first show features new work by John Digby, Claire Chalfoun, Kitty Cloud, Palmer Davis, Nancy Furino, Anne Grandin, Nene Humphrey, Cindy Kane, Barbara Kassel, Danielle Mailer, John Neville, Kathy Peck, Gretchen Dow Simpson, Maxine Smith, Rita Stern, Mark Andrew Stimson, Nancy Taplin and Jules Worthington.
Artist Donates Work
William Ross Searle, a Cape Cod landscape painter and Vineyard native who grew up in Edgartown, recently bequeathed 58 works to the Cahoon Museum of American Art in Cotuit, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. Mr. Searle works in both acrylics and watercolor; his paintings are held in private, corporate, museum and institutional collections throughout the United States and Europe. A announcement about the gift appears in the spring edition of Spyglass, the museum’s quarterly publication.
If just the thought of a trip to an art museum gives you a dull ache in the lower spine, you are not alone.
When she was deputy director for finance and operations at the Peabody Essex museum, Susan Davy, the new co-owner of the Dragonfly Gallery in Oak Bluffs, noticed that visitors often would be forced to leave the museum prematurely simply because of physical discomfort. “For some reason there’s something about walking, and then standing still, and then walking — it’s more tiring than just walking,” she said.
Vineyard artists Elizabeth Straton, with her daughter Suzanne, and Ellen McCluskey have decorated two of 80 lighthouse birdhouses that will serve as table centerpieces at Wellspring House’s Women Honoring Women luncheon on Monday, May 4.
Helping families light the way home is the theme of the luncheon, where 800 women are expected to be in attendance, including Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley. wThe event will be held at the Sheraton Hotel in Danvers, Mass.
The Center for Creative Expression opens its fourth annual student photography exhibit with a reception at Featherstone Center for the Arts on Barnes Road in Oak Bluffs on Saturday, May 2, from 4 to 6 p.m.
