Alison Shaw Gallery Fine are photography of Alison Shaw. Open Wednesday through Sunday from 2 to 6 p.m., or by appointment at 88 Dukes County avenue, Oak Bluffs, tel. 508-696-7429 or alisonshaw.com.
Current exhibit: Black and White continues through August 8.
Abode Gallery and Shop Paintings, photography and sculpture. Open by appointment at 224 Oak Lane, West Tisbury, tel. 914-830-9288 or vineyardabode.com.
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.
Fifty-five summers ago, a small summer camp began in the northern woods of Vineyard Haven not far from Lake Tashmoo. Only two people staffed it then and a small number of children attended, but that first summer paved a path for many more summers to come.
The path led somewhere that is far from traditional, is never ordinary, but that shines brightly nonetheless. That path led to Jabberwocky.
A Lifetime of Art, a retrospective exhibit celebrating more than 50 years of impressionistic art from the estate of the late regional artist Jean Van Vliet Spencer.
The show — open Saturday, August 23, at the Trinity United Methodist Parish Hall in Oak Bluffs from 4 to 7 p.m. — will feature paintings ranging from the artist’s early works of Mexico, Provincetown and Europe, through her most memorable works completed during the time she spent at Martha’s Vineyard and New York city.
All are welcome at an artist’s reception today, June 6, from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Bank of Martha’s Vineyard on South Road in Chilmark, celebrating an exhibition of fine art photography by Edwina Rissland titled Abstract Realism: Pursuit of color and form. The art works depict scenes around the Vineyard as well as Bologna, Tokyo and Oxford.
The show continues during bank hours until June 13.
The North Water Gallery hosts photographer David Fokos for an artist talk on Saturday, Nov. 28 from 1 to 3 p.m. Now living in San Diego, Mr. Fokos is back on the Vineyard, where he is most well known for his square black and white photographs with long exposures, ranging from 20 seconds up to 30 minutes. These exposures filter out what Mr. Fokos calls visual noise to reveal the fundamental underlying forms of our world. All are welcome at the gallery on North Water street in Edgartown. For details, call 508-627-6002.
Vineyard Haven artist Cindy Kane will be opening her studio from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 19, and Sunday, Dec. 20. The studio is located at 31 Sylvan avenue in Vineyard Haven; please call 508-696-8533 for directions or more information.
Susan Davy, co-owner of the Dragonfly Gallery in Oak Bluffs, recently presented a $500 check to Guinevere Cramer of Island Affordable Housing Trust. Island plein air artists donated a portion of the proceeds from sales during the gallery’s recent show, September Light on the Vineyard, which was matched by the gallery.
