A new exhibition, Con Brio, is open at Dragonfly Gallery in Oak Bluffs, with works by Jance Lentz, Don McKillop and Kyle Stevenson.

The title comes from a musical term meaning “with spirit.”

Mr. McKillop, an artist and as of this year the co-owner of the gallery, says of all the Dragonfly shows this summer, this one spans the widest spectrum of color palettes, styles, techniques and size.

“Jan, Kyle and I all paint with that same sense of spirit or vigor, even though our work is entirely different,” he said.

The house was full, as ever, when 95-year-old Helen (Hellcat) Lamb took the stage at the Camp Jabberwocky studio. The sweltering heat was amplified by the spotlight that ignited her usual white blouse and matching, freshly styled shock of white hair. She looked out into the crowd sternly, and waited for a relative quiet to settle on the room before beginning: “Twas brillig, and the slithy toves, did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogroves, and the mome raths outgrabe . . ..”

Inside Gossamer Gallery last Tuesday, Joan Merry pulled out a framed portrait to demonstrate the dire economic situation in Zimbabwe: the colorful image of a man sitting on a chair was painted on a paper “canvas” made from $25 million Zimbabwe dollar notes stitched together.