Among the dozens of items on offer at the Featherstone Holiday Gift Show from ceramics and knitwear to jewelry and ornaments you’ll also find works of art by a number of different participants. If you want to give someone something truly unique, there are smaller-scale paintings, photos, and sculptures to be found among […]
The weather may be cooler, but it’s still summer at Featherstone, with its first community exhibition after the height of the season “Summer Celebrations and Reflections.” The show’s gallery sign, with Doug Allen’s huge, arresting photograph of a teenager caught mid-flight defying gravity, arms splayed as he flips upside down off Jaws Bridge with […]
Ann Smith, executive director of Featherstone Center for the Arts, and I were speaking about how inexorably art and health are entwined after walking through Featherstone’s new exhibition, “An Abundance of Color.” In fact, when I first entered the large, light, and airy Francine Kelly Gallery, I noticed that my spirits had immediately lifted. As […]
The Oak Bluffs’ Galaxy Gallery, which bills itself “A Gallery of Stellar Artists,” opens a new show today on Thursday, Sept. 15. Twenty artists will display their work at the nonprofit cooperative Arts District gallery on the theme of “Celebrating the Sea.” “Everybody is enthusiastic,” says executive director Holly Alaimo, and they will exhibit in […]
This past summer, Stefanie Wolf moved her shop from a second-floor space in Edgartown to a storefront on Circuit Ave., and the move has proven to be a rewarding one, giving the jewelry designer more visibility and easier access for her customers. Wolf has been making and selling jewelry for 15-plus years, and has earned […]