Art
On a recent summer morning in Aquinnah, Daniel Sauer was tending to a tomato plant with one hand and holding the hand of his 18-month-old son, Amos, in the other. This was a typical day for Mr. Sauer, a balancing act of farming, cooking and family time.
Next Monday night Jemima James will treat the public to the kind of concert that regularly takes place in her own home. With two musically accomplished sons (her older is currently touring Europe with Norah Jones) and Ms. James an Island legend in her own right, she has become a matriarch of sorts for the Vineyard folk music scene. It is a scene that is surprisingly young and vibrant and a perfect match for the Musical Mondays summer series at the Featherstone Center for the Arts.
It’s Double Features at the Shaw Cramer Gallery for the summer season. The first double show — one on each level — opens with an artists’ reception on Friday, July 2, from 6 to 8 p.m.
The main gallery show will introduce the abstract expressionist paintings of Marie-Louise Rouff, with Kari Lønning’s baskets and Christian Brown’s furniture.
Chris Morse fell in love with West Tisbury’s Granary Gallery as a teenager, when he worked summers there through high school. Fifteen years ago, he purchased the gallery with his wife, Sheila. Five years after that, they bought the Field Gallery, also in West Tisbury. And another five or so years later, they purchased what is now the North Water Gallery in Edgartown.
The North Water Gallery announces its opening show for the summer season, which runs from July 1 to July 14. The following artists will be featured:
Richard L. Taylor, professor of business, law and ethics at Suffolk University in Boston, will be speaking at Union Chapel on Sunday, July 4 at 10 a.m. The title of his talk is The Declaration of Independence: A 21st Century Perspective.