Arts & Entertainment
Memories of Schooldays
In this year-long serialized novel set on the Vineyard in real time, a native Islander (“Call me Becca”) returns home after two decades to help her eccentric Uncle Abe keep his landscaping business, Pequot, afloat. Abe fears and detests Richard Moby, the CEO of an off-Island wholesale nursery, Broadway. Convinced that Moby wants to destroy Abe personally, and all Island-based landscaping/nursery businesses generally, Abe is obsessed with “taking down” Moby.
Watercolor Workshop
Priscilla Levesque, an award-winning artist from Cape Cod, will hold a two-day watercolor workshop in at the Camp Ground in Oak Bluffs from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on May 15 and 16. Ms. Levesque will offer instruction on painting the historic Victorian cottages. The fee is $100 dollars per person. For details, call 508-564-4616 or visit priscillaart.com.
Louisa Gould will discuss her life in photography on Tuesday, May 12, at 7 p.m. at the Vineyard Haven Public Library.
Ms. Gould’s passion for art and photography began at an early age. Throughout her childhood, she was enrolled in summer art programs on Martha’s Vineyard where she developed her appreciation for art, photography and sailing.
Artist Donates Work
William Ross Searle, a Cape Cod landscape painter and Vineyard native who grew up in Edgartown, recently bequeathed 58 works to the Cahoon Museum of American Art in Cotuit, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. Mr. Searle works in both acrylics and watercolor; his paintings are held in private, corporate, museum and institutional collections throughout the United States and Europe. A announcement about the gift appears in the spring edition of Spyglass, the museum’s quarterly publication.
If just the thought of a trip to an art museum gives you a dull ache in the lower spine, you are not alone.
When she was deputy director for finance and operations at the Peabody Essex museum, Susan Davy, the new co-owner of the Dragonfly Gallery in Oak Bluffs, noticed that visitors often would be forced to leave the museum prematurely simply because of physical discomfort. “For some reason there’s something about walking, and then standing still, and then walking — it’s more tiring than just walking,” she said.
