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.
An artist since the 1950s, Jack Greene recently reached into his archives to retrieve a number of airbrush drawings and paintings he created 30 years ago, and will present a small revival of the retro-artistic style for an exhibition opening at Featherstone Center for the Arts in Oak Bluffs this weekend.
The Simon Gallery will reopen today at 10 a.m. for its second season. In their newly enlarged and renovated space, Peter and Ronni Simon will celebrate with a special Easter Weekend sale featuring discounts up to 40 per cent on selected jewelry by Ronni and many photographs by Peter, including some of his iconic and recently created Vineyard landscapes and musical legends.
Ronni will also be premiering a new art form: metal and bead sculptures on driftwood.
Landscapes in Chilmark
Landscapes and bird portraits by Chilmarker Jackie Mendez-Diez are on exhibit this month at Chilmark Free Public Library during regular hours. The large show includes oil paintings and watercolors, all completed in the past several years by the artist who has not shown here for two years. The exhibition will hang until April 30.
Floral arranger Mary Louise Perry and assistant arranger Wiet Bacheller will represent the Martha’s Vineyard Garden Club for Art in Bloom 2009 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
They will create a flower design that interprets a work of art, one of 50 designs to be done by New England Garden Clubs in this springtime tradition.
This three-day festival showcasing flower arranging as an art form takes place from Saturday, April 25, through Monday, April 27.
Big Benton Exhibition
The Tisbury School will end its traveling art exhibitions with Thomas Hart Benton, the American muralist and seasonal Vineyarder who delved into the images of heroic everyday Americans during the era of the Great Depression.
The exhibition celebrates ordinary people who made America great. Given the artist’s strong Vineyard ties, his fans sometimes speculate that the faces of individual Island personalities can be found in his murals.
Family Planning Art Show
Preparations have begun for this year’s Annual Friends of Family Planning Art Show Benefit which takes place May 21 to 24, Memorial Day weekend. New artists are invited to participate and returning artists are welcomed back. Paintings, all media and furniture, pottery, three-dimensional art, jewelry and weaving are all encouraged.
