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.
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Dragonfly Gallery opens its 13th season with its annual flower art show.

The opening reception for the flower art show will be held on Saturday, May 10, from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Dragonfly Gallery, 91 Dukes County avenue, located in the Dukes County arts district of Oak Bluffs. The show runs from May 8 through May 18.

Joan Lelacheur and Heather Hall smile

One is a wampum jewelry designer. The other is a fiber artist. They share many things — friends, a love of Martha’s Vineyard, a penchant for creating — and this week, they will add one more to the list.

The Louisa Gould Gallery is celebrating the completion of its winter renovations, reopening today with its annual Spring Show.

The artists’ reception will be tomorrow, Saturday, May 3, from 5 to 7 p.m. with refreshments and appetizers created by chef Liberty Russell. All are welcome to kick off season.

Artists exhibiting work in the Spring Show are: Caryn King, Donna Malcomber Blackburn, Pia Post, Ovid Ward, Maya Farber, Louisa Gould, Carolyn Warren, Leslie S. Smith, James Masek and Washington Ledesma.

A retrospective exhibition of Susan Sellers’s plein air works opens this Sunday, April 20, with a reception from 4 to 6 p.m. at Featherstone Center for the Arts.

Ms. Sellers’s show of nearly 30 pieces, primarily oils with a few pastels and giclées, reflects the Vineyard. The gas pump on North Road, an abandoned Chilmark tractor, a weathered house — such things inspire Ms. Sellers and imbue her art with a timelessness.

Islanders, do you have an old snapshot lying around, tucked in a drawer or stuffed in a book? A Vineyard artist wants to borrow your photos.

Valerie Sonnenthal opens her Snapshots: Collective Memory exhibit on Friday, May 2, at Featherstone Center for the Arts. Photos of all shapes and sizes will make the project come alive. This is a new exhibit, though the format premiered last year at Featherstone.

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See them first at Featherstone: now in its second decade as the Island’s only year-round art center, Featherstone Center for the Arts is preparing the walls for a pair of gallery shows from Island’s best young artists.

Paper and Pottery opens on Sunday to showcase work by students of Janice Frame and Scott Campbell at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School. The show opens March 30 with a reception from 4 to 6 p.m. and runs through April 6.

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