Elderly Art Show

Elderly Art Show

Island Elderly Housing held its first artists and craftsmen show last week at the Woodside Village II Community Room in Oak Bluffs. The show featured painting, sculpture, photography, ceramics, needlepoint, books and cards and other crafts — all work of residents in Vineyard Haven and Oak Bluffs.

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Up-Island Pottery Studio Opens to All on Sunday

Up-Island potter Candy Shweder is opening her studio on Sunday, Oct. 12 from 5 to 7 p.m. There will be pottery demonstrations, wine, cheese and huge reductions on discontinued patterns and items. Candy Shweder studied ceramics in Chicago and California. She has been selling since 1986. She sold her work at the Chilmark Flea Market for 20 years and has been doing the Vineyard Artisans shows for 11 years.

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The Louisa Gould Gallery to Host Post Holiday Party

The Louisa Gould Photography and Gallery annual holiday party is on Saturday, Dec. 27 from 4 to 6 p.m. A new exhibit, The Portrait Paintings of John Holladay and Louisa Gould, will be on view. Other artists showing new works at this time are: Anne McGhee, Meg Mercier, Rachael Paxton, Ovid Osborn Ward, Marjorie Mason, Ed Cohen, Russell Carson, Debi Gero, Donna Blackburn, Gail Rodney, Robert Jewett, Caryn King, Leslie Smith, Jeanne Campbell, James Murray, Laura Roberts, Steve London, Janet Messineo, Jeffrey P’an, Maya Farber and Gray Park.

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Featherstone Exhibit Has Pottery Down to a Teapot

Begin with a teapot. That’s the simple underlying premise for a group exhibition at Featherstone Center for the Arts opening Saturday, Sept. 6, entitled Teapots and More.

“The main thing needs to be a teapot,” ceramacist Washington Ledesma said, explaining that each artist who offers a teapot for the exhibit may bring up to four more pieces for display. If many artists bring many pieces, Mr. Ledesma hopes the show can spill out under a tent on the Featherstone grounds.

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Picturing What We Believe: Featherstone Opens Show

Jeanne Campbell — photographer, advisory board member of Featherstone Center for the Arts, and ardent supporter of the This I Believe series popularized by NPR’s Jay Allison — has invited artists to submit their own interpretations of This I Believe for an exhibition at the Oak Bluffs gallery.

All are invited to the opening reception on Sunday, Oct. 19, from 4 to 6 p.m. The show continues through Nov. 5.

“The challenge,” says Mrs. Campbell, “is trying to translate the belief into a visual form.”

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Chicken Lady Lives, at Treehouse Studios

Viva Nancy Luce! is the theme of a new show opening Sunday, Oct. 12, at Treehouse Studios in West Tisbury, with a reception from 1 to 4 p.m. The exhibit will feature works of art related to the life of Martha’s Vineyard’s eccentric folk hero who became known in the 1800s as the chicken lady.

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Laundry Cart Makes Green Start for Betty Wolfson’s Cleaner Art
Holly Nadler

“Whose underwear is this?” asks artist Betty Wolfson with a laugh.

“Usually I ask permission to photograph and then paint someone’s laundry line, but I didn’t get the chance when I snapped this one somewhere in Vineyard Haven. Now I’m hoping the owner will recognize her silky panties and step forward.” Surely the unknown laundry-hanger will do so if she happens to see the poster painting for Let It All Hang Out, when Featherstone Center for The Arts presents works this Sunday by the North Hampton and Oak Bluffs artist.

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Hob-Knobbing as an Art: Inn Launches Fall Series

On Friday, Oct. 24, The Hob Knob, located at 128 Main street in Edgartown will host a cocktail reception to introduce a new cultural series called the Art of Hob Knobbing. Produced by Hob Knob proprietor Maggie White, the series is meant to feature some of the Island’s exemplary culinary, literary and artistic acheivements throughout the year.

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Plein Air Painters to Come in for Oak Bluffs Exhibition

The opening reception for the Plein Air Invitational Show will be held on Saturday, Sept. 13, from 4 to 7 p.m. in Oak Bluffs at both the Dragonfly Gallery, 91 Dukes County avenue, and at Pik Nik, 99 Dukes County avenue. The show runs through Sept. 19.

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Select Art on Show

Select Art on Show

The Martha’s Vineyard Art Association will be showing selected works from their permanent collection.

These works can be viewed through Oct. 31 at the Chilmark Bank and from Oct. 20 to Nov. 20 at the Louisa Gould Gallery in Vineyard Haven. There will be a reception at the gallery on Saturday, Nov. 8.

This exhibition will funded in part by a grant from the Martha’s Vineyard Local Cultural Council.

For details call 508-627-4881.

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