Seasonal resident Brooke Barletta’s photography exhibition, hosted by the Featherstone Center for the Arts at the Feldman Family Artspace of the Martha’s Vineyard Film Center, is an homage to the Island she has loved for some 20 years. Barletta looks at the Island with an artistic vision as she says, “wandering the Island, looking […]
Juneteenth is America’s second Independence Day, and commemorates the emancipation of enslaved African Americans. Though President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863, it wasn’t until June 19, 1865, that Union Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger and his troops came to Galveston, Texas, to inform the community that enslaved people were free. The […]
Four hundred years of art and a city combine to make a fascinating film “Tokyo Stories” playing this Saturday, June 3, at the Martha’s Vineyard Film Center. Cinematographer, director, and narrator David Bickerstaff jumps off the major exhibition “Tokyo: Art & Photography” at the Ashmolean in Oxford to bring a broader perspective on one of […]
From the mouths (and eyes) of babes comes the most profound response to climate change I’ve seen in a while. This year’s annual exhibit, hosted by the Featherstone Center for the Arts at the Feldman Family Artspace of the Martha’s Vineyard Film Center, is a stunning show of the winners of “The Art of Conservation” […]