Featherstone Center for the Arts

Name: Featherstone Center for the Arts
Address: 30 Featherstone Lane (Off of Barnes Road), Oak Bluffs, MA, 02568, US
Telephone: +15086931850
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11/11/2024

Tomorrow! The 22nd annual Holiday Gift Show opens this Tuesday, November 12th! We will be open from 12-4PM each day through Sunday, December 15th (closed Thanksgiving Day). Stop in this holiday season to find beautiful and one of a kind gifts for yourself and others. The gallery is bursting with wares from 120 artisans - some of your favorites and some that are new to Featherstone! Handmade creations including paintings, photography, pottery, crafts, jewelry, knitwear, accessories, ornaments, cards, and stocking stuffers abound. Buy local and support local artists all while supporting Featherstone as well!

We have scheduled two late shopping nights, and the first one is this week! The Holiday Gift Show will be open until 7PM on Thursday, November 14th and Thursday, December 5th. Come shop after hours and enjoy a cup of hot apple cider or wine while perusing this special craft market!

www.featherstoneart.org/holidaygiftshow

11/10/2024

It’s feeling like fall 🍁🍂 and we have a perfect cozy workshop coming up next weekend with visiting artist Rory Valentine!

Join us at Featherstone this holiday season and give yourself the gift of creative time while making a unique treasure for someone special or yourself! In this mini workshop, you will work on your own fall or winter themed wool piece, a pumpkin, leaf, acorn or other small felted sculpture or a wintery keepsake - snowman, gnome, snowflake ornament - just bring your creativity! Needle felting is a simple yet dynamic technique using barbed needles to entangle wool fibers into 2-D and 3-D forms.

Needle Felting Workshops with Rory Valentine
Saturday, November 16th // Saturday, December 14th
2:00PM-4:00PM / $50 per workshop

Registration is available online at: featherstoneart.org/fiberarts

11/03/2024

A new 4-week session of Hand Building Techniques with Sabrina Kuchta begins this afternoon and we have 2 spaces left! In this course you will explore: how to use slab, how to pinch and coil, and how to combine multiple techniques to create anything you can imagine, as well as finishing and glazing your work. Each class will have a project available but students are encouraged to bring ideas and images of projects they would like to create and we will work on them together. This course is appropriate for beginners as well as those familiar with hand building.

Sundays: November 3, 10, 17, 24
Time: 1:00PM - 4:00PM / $275 for 4 weeks, materials included.

11/01/2024

Two weeks from today Liz Taft begins a new 4-week long “Serious Still Life” course, on Friday, November 15th! …and two days from today is the last day of “Tickled Pink & Peach” in the Francine Kelly Gallery where you can see Liz’s piece “Norton’s Flowers” as well as work by 67 other artists, through Sunday, November 3rd!

Serious Still Life with Liz Taft
Saturdays: November 15, 22, December 6, 13
10:00AM - 12:30PM / $200 for 4 week course
Class description & registration: featherstoneart.org/painting

Tickled Pink & Peach in the Francine Kelly Gallery
Open through Sunday, November 3rd
12:00PM - 4:00PM / Free admission
featherstoneart.org/galleryshows

10/29/2024

Session 2 of Children’s Art classes begin next week and we still have some space in our youngest group, Adventures in Art (3-5 years old) on Mondays and Tuesdays. Also space in Saturday weekly classes for kids ages 7 and older - the last Needlework class is this Saturday, then Holiday Crafting begins the following week plus Ceramics on Saturday afternoons! ✨.

⭐️ Adventures in Art (ages 3-5 years old)
Mondays, Tuesdays: 3:15PM - 5:30PM

Weekly Saturday Classes:

⭐️ Needlework Fiber Arts (ages 7-12)
Saturdays: 11:00AM - 1:00PM

⭐️ Ceramic Exploration (ages 7+)
Saturdays: 2:00PM - 4:00PM

⭐️ Holiday Crafting (ages 7-12)
Saturdays: 11:00AM - 1:00PM

Visit www.featherstoneart.org/childrensart for class descriptions & dates 🎨

10/28/2024

This is the final week of TICKLED PINK & PEACH in the Francine Kelly Gallery! We are open each day through Sunday, November 3rd from 12-4PM. Garden Gate students have enjoyed this exhibit, and created their own collaborative show next door in the Schule Chapel - be sure to visit when here to see work by students ages 1-6!

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10/27/2024

Beginning next weekend - Drawing Essentials, a 4-week drawing course with M Colleen Harrigan starts this coming Saturday, November 2nd. This is a beginning course in drawing designed to develop and expand one’s observational abilities and rendering skills. Students learn methods for sensitively describing objects in terms of line, shape, volume, cross-contour, proportion, light logic, perspective, and compositional space. Each class focuses on a particular formal concept and its function in drawing. Students begin with line drawings and conclude with fully modeled, tonal, volumetric, and still-life drawings. Also covered are fundamentals of pictorial space structure, aesthetics, content, and draftsmanship using still-life and natural forms. The course progresses from basic line drawings to fully modeled, tonal, volumetric, and still-life drawings using pencils, pens, and charcoal.

Saturdays: November 2, 9, 16, 23
10AM-1PM / $240 for the 4 week course

Further details and registration can be found online at: featherstoneart.org/drawing

10/23/2024

Festive fall at Featherstone with scarecrows from the charter school decorating our entryways! 🍂 Repost from …Thrilled to be participating with in the ‘s 24th Annual Scarecrow Fundraiser again! Our children love having Laika the Astronaut Dog and James and the Giant Peach on campus!

10/22/2024

Tonight! Take your knitting skills to the next level in Knitting with Color Workshop with Helen Hall - Tuesday, October 22nd from 5:30-7:30PM. Colorwork knitting involves using two or more yarn colors in a single row or round to create intricate patterns, images or textures. This workshop will cover a variety of topics and techniques and is geared for an advanced beginner/intermediate knitter.

Registration available at: featherstoneart.org/fiberarts

10/21/2024

Reminder! Artist Applications are due today - Monday, October 21st for the 22nd annual Holiday Gift Show!

Drop off is Wednesday & Thursday, November 6th & 7th from 10AM to 4PM. We open our doors to the public on Tuesday, November 12th and are open through Sunday, December 15th (except Thanksgiving Day, November 28) from 12 to 4PM.

Information about the Holiday Gift Show, as well as the online artist application, can be found on our website: www.featherstoneart.org/holidaygiftshow

10/20/2024

Today! Join us for Tickled Pink & Peach artists’ reception Sunday, October 20th in the Francine Kelly Gallery from 4-6PM! Paintings, photographs, fiber art, pottery, jewelry, stained glass and mixed media in shades or hints of pink & peach are on display through Sunday, November 3rd.

Also be sure to visit the Schule Chapel next door to sGarden Gate at Featherstonecdc’s collaborative show 💕

TICKLED PINK & PEACH
October 15 - November 3: 12-4PM
Artists’ Reception: Sunday, October 20, 4-6PM

Featured painting: “Kiss Me” by Harriet BernsteHarriet Bernsteinein

10/19/2024

Today is this first Children’s Ceramic Exploration of the fall and we have 2 spots still available! Come have fun in the Pottery Studio with instructors Sabrina Kuchta and Nancy Blank. Students will explore various techniques in hand building. From decorative planters to dragons to mugs, children will learn and experiment with multiple techniques in construction and decoration of functional and sculptural pieces.

‘Children’s Ceramic Exploration’ for ages 7 and older
Saturdays, 2-4PM
$30 per class - Registration available online at:
featherstoneart.org/childrensart

10/17/2024

Tonight! Join us for “Yarn in the Art Barn” Thursday, October 17th from 5-7PM. Explore different types of yarn for sale: from sock, to hand painted, to fi*****ng, to bulk. Come build or add to your stash, and find your next project with Featherstone’s fiber library of patterns while connecting with other knitters and fiber artists! This is a free event with yarn available for purchase. The sale will take place in our main building - in the Art Barn’s library and entry. 🧶

Also! Interested in knitting classes? Next week is Knitting with Color Workshop with Helen Hall on Tuesday, October 22nd from 5:30-7:30PM. Colorwork knitting involves using two or more yarn colors in a single row or round to create intricate patterns, images or textures. This workshop will cover a variety of topics and techniques and is geared for an advanced beginner/intermediate knitter.

Art Night: Start a Scarf with Zoe Thompson is Thursday, November 7th from 5-7PM! This beginner class is a fun intro to knitting & includes all you need to get started.

Assisted Open Knitting Studio meets every Wednesday morning from 10AM-12PM and is a wonderful way to practice and improve skills or get help with a mistake or new technique.

Further details on all classes, open studio and registration available at: www.featherstoneart.org/fiberarts

10/16/2024

“Tickled Pink & Peach” is open in the Francine Kelly Gallery! Abby Remer and Dena Porter were here from the MV Times to interview our director Ann, take some photos…and admire instructor Frank Creney’s sculptural ceramic pieces the other day. Stop by to view pink and peach creations filling the gallery from 12 to 4PM each day through Sunday, November 3rd, and please join us on Sunday, October 20th from 4 to 6PM for the artists’ reception!

10/05/2024

10/04/2024

We still have some spaces available in this weekend’s 2 day workshop with visiting artist Mary Moquin - ‘Abstracting from Nature’ Saturday & Sunday, October 5 & 6 from 10AM to 4PM each day.

Have you always wanted to try abstraction but can’t figure out a way to begin? This workshop will help jumpstart your process with exercises designed to get you thinking differently about abstraction. It isn’t my goal to turn you into an abstract artist, it’s to help you think more abstractly and concentrate more on what paint, shape, composition and color can do on their own without being hung on a representational image. How can we transcend the subject matter and evoke more of the experience we witnessed as artists?

Mary Moquin is a Cape Cod based artist and is represented by galleries in Duxbury, Rockport, and Wellfleet, MA as well as here on the Island at North Water Gallery in Edgartown . An MFA graduate in Painting she has participated in numerous juried regional, national and invitational shows and has shown in galleries and museums across New England.

Further details and registration can be found at: www.featherstoneart.org/painting

09/28/2024

Registration is open for the next session of Children’s Art classes (beginning the first week of November) We have four different age groups 3 through teens! These sessions run from 4-6 weeks during the school year. Saturdays host weekly classes in Needlework, Ceramics and come November, Holiday Crafting ✨.

⭐️ Adventures in Art (ages 3-5 years old)
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays: 3:15PM - 5:30PM

⭐️ Art Explorers (Kindergarten - 2nd Grade)
Thursdays: 3:15PM - 5:30PM

⭐️ Creative Spark (3rd - 6th Grade)
Wednesdays: 3:30PM - 5:30PM

⭐️ Art in the Studio (7th Grade - teens)
Thursdays: 3:30PM - 5:30PM

Weekly Saturday Classes:

⭐️ Needlework Fiber Arts (ages 7+)
Saturdays: 11:00AM - 1:00PM

⭐️ Ceramic Exploration (ages 7-12
Saturdays: 2:00PM - 4:00PM

⭐️ Holiday Crafting (ages 7-12)
Saturdays: 11:00AM - 1:00PM

Visit www.featherstoneart.org/childrensart for class descriptions & dates 🎨

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30 Featherstone Lane (Off Of Barnes Road)
Oak Bluffs, MA
02568

Telephone

+15086931850

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Today is the final day of Tickled Pink & Peach in the Francine Kelly Gallery, visit us Sunday, November 3rd from 12-4PM. If you were unable to make it in person, here is a 6.5 minute tour of the gallery, showing varied work by 68 artists in this community show. TICKLED PINK & PEACHOctober 15 - November 3..#featherstonecenterforthearts #marthasvineyard #oakbluffs #artcenter #artshow #exhibit #artexhibit #galleryshow #gallery #art #artist #community #creativity #create #artmatters #artsmatter #marthasvineyardartist #pink #peach #tickledpinkandpeach #pantonecoloroftheyear

A busy fall day at Featherstone! Acrylic Painting with John Holladay, day one of Abstracting from Nature with visiting artist Mary Moquin, day one of the Raku Workshop with Frank Creney, and today is the second to last day of The Art of the Horse & Horse Barn! Gallery is open 12-4PM today and Sunday. ..#featherstonecenterforthearts #marthasvineyard #oakbluffs #artcenter #artshow #exhibit #artexhibit #galleryshow #gallery #art #artist #community #creativity #create #artmatters #artsmatter #marthasvineyardartist #painting #acrylicpainting #abstractpainting #ceramics #pottery #rakufiring #horse #horsefarm #barn

We are looking forward to welcoming visiting artist Mary Moquin @marymoquinart to Featherstone next weekend! Mary will be teaching a two day workshop Abstracting from Nature, Saturday & Sunday, October 5 & 6 from 10AM to 4PM each day. This reel shows examples of this process as well as a quick tour of her studio.✨Have you always wanted to try abstraction but can’t figure out a way to begin? This workshop will help jumpstart your process with exercises designed to get you thinking differently about abstraction. It isn’t my goal to turn you into an abstract artist, it’s to help you think more abstractly and concentrate more on what paint, shape, composition and color can do on their own without being hung on a representational image. How can we transcend the subject matter and evoke more of the experience we witnessed as artists?✨Mary is is represented by galleries in Duxbury, Rockport, and Wellfleet, MA as well as here on the Island at North Water Gallery in Edgartown. Visiting Artist Workshop: Abstracting from Nature with Mary MoquinSaturday-Sunday, October 5-6: 10AM-4PM each day$300 for 2 day workshopFurther details and registration can be found at: www.featherstoneart.org/painting..#featherstonecenterforthearts #marthasvineyard #oakbluffs #artcenter #creativity #create #art #artist #artclass #painting #paintingclass #landscape #landscapepainting #oilpainting #abstract #abstractworkshop #artmatters #artsmatter #marymoquin

Tonight! This is the final musical night of the season (after moving rained out Musical Monday to tonight!) Jon Zeeman and Joanne Cassidy will be performing on the outdoor stage at 6PM - Wednesday, August 28th! 🎶 Bring your beach chairs, blankets and picnics and enjoy music outside at Featherstone while supporting local musicians! Tickets for all musical performances are $20 per person with 50% of proceeds going to the musicians. 🎶 Visit featherstoneart.org/music to purchase tickets. 🎟 ..#featherstonecenterforthearts #marthasvineyard #oakbluffs #artcenter #communityarts #art #create #creativity #artmatters #artsmatter #outdoors #sunset #outdoorentertainment #beoutdoors #music #musicalperformance #liveband #livemusic #band #local #live #musician #musicalmondays #jonzeeman #joannecassidy

Potters Bowl studio hours this week 🥣 The Potter’s Bowl is less than two weeks away! Calling all potters to finish up any bowls they are planning on donating to the fundraiser, or stop by this week to work on new bowls - Frank Creney will be overseeing Potter’s Bowl Open Studio time each morning through Friday, August 30th, from 9AM to 12PM each day. Open to experienced potters free of charge, materials included. ✨ Please note, this studio time is only for creating bowls to be donated to the event and you must be an experienced intermediate/advanced potter. There is NO instruction. ✨ No registration necessary...#featherstonecenterforthearts #marthasvineyard #oakbluffs #artcenter #communityarts #potterystudio #ceramics #pottery #kiln #kilnfired #handmade #community #artmatters #artsmatter #pottersbowl

Tonight! This is the final Friday night with @johnnyhoyandthebluefish of the season, and we still have some tickets left on this perfect weather day! The last Musical Monday is right around the corner too - Jon Zeeman and Joanne Cassidy perform on August 26th! 🎶 Bring your beach chairs, blankets and picnics and enjoy music outside at Featherstone while supporting local musicians! Tickets for all musical performances are $20 per person with 50% of proceeds going to the musicians, these last two shows begin at 6PM. 🎶 Visit featherstoneart.org/music to purchase tickets. 🎟 ..#featherstonecenterforthearts #marthasvineyard #oakbluffs #artcenter #communityarts #art #create #creativity #artmatters #artsmatter #outdoors #sunset #outdoorentertainment #beoutdoors #music #musicalperformance #liveband #livemusic #band #local #live #musician #musicalmondays #johnnyhoyandthebluefish #jonzeeman #joannecassidy

This afternoon! Come have fun carving during this 3 hour workshop - Block Printing on Fabric with Anna Brody. Friday, August 9th from 2-5PM / $70 ✨.In this 3-hour course for printing on fabrics, we will carve stamps out of linoleum blocks to create images and patterns for fabrics. Please bring fabrics to print on such as: tea towels, shirts, tote bags, pillowcases, linen tablecloths, cotton sheets, or whatever flat-weave fabric you want (we have tote bags available for purchase in the studio) Any linoleum block stamps you create are yours to take home and continue printing with.To register:featherstoneart.org/printmaking..#featherstonecenterforthearts #marthasvineyard #oakbluffs #artcenter #communityarts #art #artist #create #creativity #artsandculture #artmatters #artsmatter #blockprinting #blockprintingonfabric

It was a fun night at Featherstone last night for the sold out @entrainband show! Join us this Friday night at 6PM for @johnnyhoyandthebluefish! Tickets for next week’s August 12th performance with Mike Benjamin Band @mikebenjaminandthekeepersmv are on sale - get your tickets early, this is another sell out show!🎶 Bring your beach chairs, blankets and picnics and enjoy music outside at Featherstone while supporting local musicians! Tickets for all musical performances are $20 per person with 50% of proceeds going to the musicians.Visit www.featherstoneart.org/music for schedule and to purchase tickets. 🎟 ..#featherstonecenterforthearts #marthasvineyard #oakbluffs #artcenter #communityarts #art #create #creativity #artmatters #artsmatter #outdoors #sunset #outdoorentertainment #beoutdoors #music #musicalperformance #liveband #livemusic #band #local #live #musician #musicalmondays #entrain

Sharing a recent post of Delita Martin’s, showing video and images of her creating new works for her exhibit at Featherstone (which opened last night)!Tomorrow - Tuesday, July 30th at 10AM - Come enjoy a unique creative experience in Featherstone’s Printmaking Studio. You will be able to watch Delita Martin as she creates 10 limited edition prints which will be available for sale during her exhibit. She will be engaging with and taking feedback from the audience during the process. Space is limited, but Delita will be working over the course of several hours. There are also two talks this week! One with Delita & curator Dr. Myrtis Bedolla on Wednesday, and another with Delita & Dalila Scruggs on Thursday (further info below)…Repost @blackboxpress:I have spent the last year working on my exhibition “Sometimes My Blues Change Colors”…long days, sometimes long nights and weekends but definitely a labor of love 💗 💕 …. I am so proud and excited the be traveling to Martha’s Vineyard for my opening at the Featherstone Center For The Arts. I can’t tell you how excited I am about the new works not to mention all the other things!July 28 - September 1Artist Demonstration:“Beyond Layers: Relief Printing and Pronto Plate Lithography”Tuesday, July 30, 10AM-2PMArtist & Curator Talk:Wednesday, July 31, 4-5PMA conversation with Dr. Bedolla @galeriemyrtis Artist & Curator Talk with Reception:Thursday, August 1 at 4PM with reception following, at 5PMA conversation with Delita Martin and Dalila Scruggs, Smithsonian American Art Museum’s @americanart Augusta Savage Curator of African American Art, discussing Elizabeth Catlett’s art and legacy. I want to send a huge THANK YOU to @ulyssesowensjr_ for collaborating with me on this project. Your music has definitely added another layer of beauty to the work ❤️#exhibition #worksonpaper #marthasvineyard #visualpoet #delitapinchbackmartin #galeriemyrtis #featherstonecenterforthearts #artonthevineyard #ulyss

Can’t wait to see your lovely faces!!!!Please join us this Sunday, July 28th from 4-6PM for the opening reception of Delita Martin “Sometimes My Blues Change Color” in the Francine Kelly Gallery, guest curated by Dr. Myrtis Bedolla of @galeriemyrtis. #featherstonecenterforthearts #galeriemyrtis #blackboxpressstudio #visualpoet #mixedmediaworkdonpaper #printmaking #exhibition #delitapinchbackmartin #sometimesmyblueschangecolors #installation

🎶 Tonight! Perfect weather to enjoy jazz with Stan Strickland & Joel Harrison Band on our outdoor stage! Tickets for this and Johnny Hoy and the Bluefish’s Friday, July 26th performance are available online. Tickets for next week’s July 29th performance with The Jeremy Berlin Quartet featuring Theresa Thomason, go on go on sale today at noon. All three shows begin at 6:30PM.🎶 Bring your beach chairs, blankets and picnics and enjoy music outside at Featherstone while supporting local musicians! Tickets for all musical performances are $20 per person with 50% of proceeds going to the musicians.Visit www.featherstoneart.org/music for full summer schedule and to purchase tickets. 🎟 ..#featherstonecenterforthearts #marthasvineyard #oakbluffs #artcenter #communityarts #art #create #creativity #artmatters #artsmatter #outdoors #sunset #outdoorentertainment #beoutdoors #music #musicalperformance #liveband #livemusic #band #local #live #musician #musicalmondays #stanstrickland #joelharrison #jazz

Cannot resist sharing this life update, below🔥 [P.S. Frank is still hosting Potters Bowl open studio time on Thursdays through May from 10AM-1PM each week. This time is for artists to create bowls for Featherstone’s Potters Bowl fundraiser in September. All materials are free as well as studio time (please note, this studio time is only for creating bowls to be donated to the event)]!Repost from @creneyceramics •Hello folks after a long break from social media I’m back to let everyone know where I’ll be this summer first off I’ll be at the fabulous #featherstonecenterforthearts working my regular job taking care of the property as well as teaching I will have rotating pieces in the gift shop up next i will be at the #vineyardartisansfestival Memorial Day weekend and then every Sunday from the second Sunday in June -July-august-September I will also represented at my good friends at #kinmv last but not least #bentwingpottery in vineyard haven where my fellow potter Chioke has a beautiful gallery I have been firing wood fired pieces also with #merryfarmpottery I also did a large firing of raku style pieces in the kilns I built at featherstonecenterforthearts oh and I just rebuilt part of the stage I originally built 27 years ago with old friend Kevin Keady this time around it was with the guy I worked besides many times over the years shoutout to Kurt Crossland for banging that out I’ll be giving out peeks of new works in the coming weeks thanks to all the people who’ve supported along this 50 year journey especially my partner rose without whose guidance and love makes it so much more thanks. Ps this bird came in at 23 inches wet of course The Vineyard Artisan Festivals @kin.mv @bentwingpottery @merryfarmpottery #marthasvineyard #pottery #artist