Art
In Brendan Coogan’s classroom at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School, student Amy Fligor daintily painted her nails; all fifty of them. “We have a pot, like a deep fryer that we melt wax in,” Amy said. “I stuck my fingers in the wax . . . Now I’m trying to make the fingernails a little more pink.” Amy is one of 33 Martha’s Vineyard Regional High school students who received an award at the Boston Globe Scholastic Art Awards competition. Her waxed fingers holding a cup described by her as “holding the world in the palm of your hand,” received an honorable mention.
The Permanent Endowment for Martha’s Vineyard is accepting applications for its spring grant cycle. Grants will be awarded to Island nonprofits seeking funding for new or continuing projects that benefit the Vineyard community. Past grants have supported arts and culture, civic affairs, community development, education, the elderly, the environment, housing, health and human services and youth.
PechaKucha night is back! For those who missed it this fall, PechaKucha is not a strain of the flu. It’s an arts presentation where artists show 20 images of their work for 20 seconds each. Consider it speed dating for creativity.
The Martha’s Vineyard Museum is holding a gallery reception tonight, Jan. 25, from 5 to 7 p.m. entitled Playing Together — High School Sports Since Regionalization. The exhibit was in part curated by Martha’s Vineyard High School students currently taking a course called Sport in America, taught by Corinne Kurtz.
The Martha’s Vineyard Center for Living will hold its first cultural luncheon of the year on Saturday, Jan. 26, from noon to 2 p.m. at The Grill on Main in Edgartown. The theme for the series ties in with Arts Martha’s Vineyard which works to promote and support the arts on the Island. The featured speaker is Ann Smith, executive director of the Featherstone Center for the Arts.
Since 1843, the Old Whaling Church, with its familiar white exterior, six grand columns and regal clock tower, has stood watch over Edgartown’s Main street.
But inside the Greek revival church, built during the town’s whaling heyday, was another feature that architect Frederick Baylies viewed as an integral part of the completed project: trompe l’oeil paintings graced the walls and the ceilings, and the church’s interior architecture was built with these sweeping features in mind.