Within the ephemeral confines of time, a place that provides refuge from a tirelessly moving reality is always a welcome respite.

After more than two and a half years of preparation for her multi-media art project Consenses, Sally Taylor had just concluded her final planning meeting.

After sundown on Monday, artists Ken Vincent and Traeger di Pietro unloaded a canvas, easel, and bag of supplies from their cars and carried them out to Christopher Mara’s backyard.

Not many people can point to a single pivotal point when their life made an about-face, but Kib Bramhall has no doubt that art class changed his life. Sixty-five years later, he is still painting. His newest show opens at the Granary Gallery Sunday.

Edward Keating, a longtime staff photographer for the New York Times and frequent contributor to Rolling Stone, Time Magazine and New York Magazine, is having a show at Island Images Gallery in Oak Bluffs. He is best known for his gritty street photography done in New York city.

For Island's newest gallerists, the journey to the Vineyard included clogging, a band called Wet & Reckless and traveling the world working for relief organizations. CRFT SHW in Vineyard Haven is where these seemingly disparate experiences come together.