The July exhibition at the West Tisbury library, “New Works: The Photography of Reggie Forster, Dena Porter, and Rob Skinnon,” is an homage to beauty, that of the Island and elsewhere. It grew out of Dena Porter originally being invited to do it as a solo show, but as she says, “With COVID, the last […]
There were at least a dozen men named “Benjamin Luce” who resided on Martha’s Vineyard over the past four centuries all cousins of one another. Once, you could drive a cart from near the site of the modern roundabout in Oak Bluffs all the way to Waldron’s Bottom on the south shore of Edgartown […]
Expressive performance, dance, and theater are all powerful tools that groups like the Yard and Lucky Plush Productions use to bring folks together to celebrate the beauty and strength of community. The two dance and theater troupes were at Nomans in Oak Bluffs Thursday, where Chicago-based ensemble dance-theater company Lucky Plush Productions put on a […]
Stan Murphy was renowned as a premiere and well-respected Island artist. The current exhibition at the Martha’s Vineyard Museum is an overview of his life and art, celebrating the 100th anniversary of his birth. He was an enigma to me when I first saw his work and met him after I moved to West Tisbury […]