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Sea Art at Pep Art
Pep Art will open a new exhibition, Sea Art, this Friday, Sept. 3, featuring ocean field paintings by Clifford Smith. Other exhibiting artists include Elizabeth Cecil, Jennifer Langhammer, Suzanne Schireson, Carrie Mae Smith, Greg Watson and David Wright.
All are invited for the artists’ reception on Friday from 5 to 8 p.m. The Pep Art gallery is located at 7 Beach street extension (Five Corners) in Vineyard Haven. For details, call 508-693-2236.
Well over 200 people attended the gallery opening of The Art of the Ceramic Bowl at Featherstone this Sunday, which kicked off with a fund-raising effort that gave new meaning to a common Vineyard abbreviation. The event, which sought to raise money for the purchase of Featherstone’s new kiln, was Buy Your Own Bowl.
Burning Bush
Trinity Episcopal Church in Oak Bluffs is pleased to welcome back the Rev. Canon Edward W. Rodman as celebrant on the next two Sundays, August 29 and Sept. 5. Rev. Canon Rodman is the John Seely Stone professor of pastoral theology and urban ministry at the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge. He is also the denominational counselor for Episcopal students at Harvard Divinity School. Over the course of a 40-year career, he has served as assistant minister at St.
Archaeology experts will identify, examine and discuss any artifacts, from the Vineyard and beyond, that members of the public bring to Archaeology I.D. Day at the Martha’s Vineyard Museum on Saturday, August 28, from 9 a.m. to noon.
As part of the museum’s archaeology lecture series, experts Jill Bouck, Dick Burt, Duncan Caldwell, Bill Moody and Jim Richardson will help identify objects.
Flatbread and Farm
The Farm Institute calls it farmtastic. On Tuesday, August 31, from noon to close, pat your happy stomach, full with delicious pizza and organic salads from Flatbread Pizza, while also patting yourself on the back for supporting farm education for children and adults. A portion of pizza sales goes directly to the Farm Institute.