Copper repoussè artist Anthony Holand of the Tuck & Holand Metal Sculptors has been featured in Boston Home magazine’s Best of Boston Home, Winter 2013 issue, which is available on newsstands now. The studio, based in Vineyard Haven, is renowned for custom weathervanes, as well as a line of limited edition compass roses, wall maps, burgees, chandeliers and sculpture. It has been placed on Massachusetts’s 1,000 Great Places list.

Joseph Palermo remembers his mother saying he was “born with a paintbrush in his hand.” If this is the case then Mr. Palermo has been holding a brush for 91 years. This weekend will mark the beginning of a month-long show of Mr. Palermo’s watercolors at the Chilmark Library and he plans to be there at the opening. “I think he’s an inspiration,” Elise Thomas said. She helps Mr. Palermo by taking photos of some of the images he’s interested in recreating, everything from waterfowl to lighthouses. Then, in a large alcove in his apartment within his son Greg’s home in Edgartown, Mr.

The deadline for the Martha’s Vineyard Magazine’s photography contest is Dec. 31. Everyone is invited to enter the competition; the only rules are that the photograph was shot on or around the Island, be the original work of the person submitting the entry and not have been digitally altered (minor color correcting is acceptable). Photos also must not have been previously published.

The Martha’s Vineyard Center for the Visual Arts will present a sampling of work created by this year’s 13 grant recipients. The show takes place this weekend, Saturday, Dec. 15, and Sunday, Dec. 16, from noon to 4 p.m.

That’s just part of what artist Peter Eaton Gurnz, of Edgartown and Los Angeles, wants people to think about when they view his new exhibition, “Five Leaves Left,” in Miami at the annual Art Basel art fair, which opened Thursday and runs through the weekend.