The featured artist this week, August 18 to 24, at Dragonfly Gallery in Oak Bluffs is Jenny Nelson from Woodstock, N.Y. Ms. Nelson attended Maine College of Art in Portland, Maine and graduated with a BFA from Bard College, where she received a scholarship to the Lacoste School of the Arts in France.

Carol Barsha, Truly

Last Friday, the Gazette highlighted the opening of an art show by Carol Barsha at the Chilmark Library. Ms. Barsha’s exhibit is entitled Twenty Years at Beetlebung Farm and features paintings that chronicle two decades spent looking at and recreating on canvas the extended life of the farm.

The Gazette regrets that it posted in error that the opening would take place on July 23, when in fact the opening is this Saturday, July 30, from 3 to 5 p.m.

The exhibit runs through August 12.

Instead of just checking out art, how about getting to the heart of the matter by visiting the centers of creativity?

This Saturday, Sept. 10, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Featherstone Center for the Arts is hosting studio tours of the following artists: Deborah Colter, Stephanie Danforth, Jeri Dantzig, Traeger di Pietro, Anne D. Grandin, Washington Ledesma, Richard Lee, Steve Lohman, Julia Mitchell, Alison Shaw, Lucinda Sheldon, Jenifer Strachan, Jeanne Staples, Wendy Weldon, and Barney Zeitz.

To us an apt cliche, an embarrassment of riches, really.

Old boat motors line the walkway, driftwood creakingly composes the banisters, pieces of sea glass stud the stone walls, a decaying water ski serves as a shelf. But this is not an underwater farmhouse — it is Saltwater Gallery, Ashley Medowski’s giant work of art that houses the smaller creations she makes inside its walls.

On Sunday, Oct. 9, from 5 to 7 p.m. the Gay Head Gallery will celebrate Columbus Day weekend with a show to benefit ACE MV, the Island’s Adult Center for Education.

An exhibit of paintings, photographs, and other works of art inspired by the beauty and richness of the Vineyard, and a short presentation about ACE MV will be the main feature of the show.

At the first of Edgartown’s gallery strolls this year, which will see the wine, cheese and music — oh, and don’t forget the art — spread out at four simultaneous gallery receptions on Thursday, Elizabeth Eisenhauer will be looking “to see what that little element’s going to be that’s different and unexpected.”

Each year, there’s a little bit of a difference in Edgartown’s Evening of Fine Art, according to Ms. Eisenhauer, who owns the Eisenhauer Gallery.

Arty Arty Oxen Free

Calling all artists, it is time for the jurying in of new members Martha’s Vineyard Art Association.

Membership in the association is decided by a jury process. Artists may submit five original artworks representative of their particular style or artistry to the Old Sculpin Gallery by Monday, August 22.

Anyone interested in applying for membership should call 508-627-4881 or email mvaa@verizon.net for an application form.

For more information, visit oldsculpingallery.org.

Artist Ned Reade will be busy at the Old Sculpin gallery this week. On Sunday, July 31, he is taking part in an art opening at Old Sculin Gallery that will also feature Rosalie Shane, Sharon McCann Daly, and Ann Howes. On Thursday, August 4 at 6 p.m., he will present a gallery talk about his new work.

Al Hurwitz will speak to members and guests of Vineyard Village at Home on the art of children’s drawing on Thursday, Sept. 15, from 3:30 to 5 p.m. at the Chilmark Library.

Dr. Hurwitz is the author of Children and Their Art and has taught children from preschool to the Harvard graduate school of education. He is a recent recipient of the National Art Education’s Lifetime Achievement Award as well as a former Art Educator of the Year and is the former world president of INSEA, UNESCO’s International Society for Education Through Art.

Three years ago, Rose Abrahamson told a Vineyard Gazette reporter her art show then at the Shaw Cramer Gallery was her last. Now this summer, at 89 years of age, she is saying this show at the same gallery will be her last.

As talented and respected as she is, whenever Mrs. Abrahamson produces new paintings it calls for an exhibit. And just as well she is having another, because this show includes what she calls the best piece she ever has made.