Not many people can point to a single pivotal point when their life made an about-face, but Kib Bramhall has no doubt that art class changed his life. Sixty-five years later, he is still painting. His newest show opens at the Granary Gallery Sunday.

On Saturday visitors to North Water Gallery gathered to celebrate the acclaimed artist Ray Ellis, who died last October.

African crafts from Zambia, Ghana, Congo and Zimbabwe take the spotlight during the African Artists Community Development Project’s sale.

Edward Keating, a longtime staff photographer for the New York Times and frequent contributor to Rolling Stone, Time Magazine and New York Magazine, is having a show at Island Images Gallery in Oak Bluffs. He is best known for his gritty street photography done in New York city.

Behind the Bookstore is an area of innovation. Coffee, pastries, wine and now painting, too. On Thursday evenings the Edgartown coffee shop is hosting an event dedicated to the fine art of creativity and cocktails.

For Island's newest gallerists, the journey to the Vineyard included clogging, a band called Wet & Reckless and traveling the world working for relief organizations. CRFT SHW in Vineyard Haven is where these seemingly disparate experiences come together.