Art
When eating out, diners typically only have to choose the food that goes on their plate, not the plate itself.
Not so at the Potters’ Bowl, the annual Featherstone fundraising event held last Sunday evening. Now in its third summer, the Bowl is based on a simple concept: buy a unique, locally crafted bowl (or two), and get free soup. All proceeds in turn go to support Featherstone’s clay studio.
“People were lined up at a quarter to four,” committee chair Debbie Hale said. “We’re bringing out every bowl.”
When Tanya Augoustinos and Maria Westby opened A Gallery in July, they set out to bring contemporary art to the Vineyard. This goal was evident last Sunday at an opening for Cindy Kane’s show Inheritance, her first on the Island since 2008. Ms. Kane’s work is provocative, yet unobtrusive. She creates visually-pleasing assemblages that subtly carry a political undertone, a quality that separates her from more traditional Vineyard artists.
What would jazz, a musical art form, look like if it was sculpted into a concrete object? Jack Greene, painter and a sculptor, suggests an answer to that question in the form of JAZZ, a high relief sculpture made up of four pieces: Ear Listening, Seed, Ying and Yang and Wind Blowing Through. Mr. Greene will display this and other reliefs and paintings this weekend at his studio opening.
Vineyard Comedy Fest
The stage is set this summer for the second annual Knock-Knock production’s Martha’s Vineyard Comedy Fest, a series of comedy shows performed at the Lampost in Oak Bluffs this week and next. The festival offers a full menu of humor, with comedians Torris Brown, Brian Babylon and Kevin Williams performing tonight at 8 p.m., and B Cole, Frank Collaso, Leon Rogers and Damon Williams performing three nights next week — August 30, 31 and Sept. 1.
All shows begin at 8 p.m., and doors open at 7:30 p.m.
This weekend, the A Gallery in Vineyard Haven introduces a pair of contemporary Island painters, Lily Morris and Billy Hoff, in new show featuring their recent work. Ms. Morris’ partly blurred but vibrant paintings depict dreamlike moments of transformation. Mr. Hoff’s landscapes and figurative paintings are inspired by illustrators like N. C. Wyeth and Howard Pyle, and combine large brushstrokes with intensity of color and emotion.
Pottery, Soup and Music
This weekend Feathersone Center for the Arts in Oak Bluffs is holding its third annual Potters Bowl with guest curator Washington Ledesma.
The idea behind the event is both basic and beautiful. Visitors to the show are asked to buy a ceramic bowl for $25 and then they get a free bowl of soup plus a roll, drink and dessert. Talk about art literally satisyfing an inner hunger.