Chris Murphy, son of the late artist and decoy expert Stan Murphy and a decoy carver himself, guest curated the newest exhibition of the Martha’s Vineyard Museum. The Art of The Hunt: Martha’s Vineyard Decoys opens this weekend with a reception at the museum galleries on Friday from 5 to 7 p.m.

Today, Nov. 2, from 4 to 6 p.m. there will be an artists reception for Kye Howell and Ilao Jackson of the So Focused Photography Group. The reception takes place at the photography gallery at The WorkOut and Tennis Center located at the Airport Road in West Tisbury.

The Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School 2012 Scarecrow Festival has arrived and more than 75 scarecrows are now living on the Island. The festival is a fundraiser for the school as each Island business that participates makes a donation to the school in return for a homemade scarecrow. The scarecrows stay up until Nov. 1. Visit mvpcs.org to take the grand scarecrow tour.

Paul Brissette stood in front of the Grange Hall Thursday evening to receive the Permanent Endowment Fund’s 2012 Creative Living Award and pulled from his pocket a small white carton. On it were written the words The Box. “The Box contains all the knowledge and experience human beings have accumulated thus far,” Mr. Brissette told the gathering of friends, family members, colleagues and community members.

On the Vineyard where art galleries abound and artists abound even more, there is, it seems, art everywhere. But it’s not just traditional galleries that showcase art. Venturing off the tracks, one can encounter not only art that enchants but artists who do so as well.

This month the work of Chris Hughes is being highlighted at Mocha Mott’s in Vineyard Haven and the work of Edie Yoder at the Chilmark Library.

If anyone is headed to New York city next weekend, local photographer Michael Zide will be featured at the PhotoPlus International Expo to be held at the Javitz Center on Oct. 25 to 27.

Mr. Zide will have a collection of his Martha’s Vineyard and Western Massachusetts images on display as well as participating in a print-signing which takes place between 10:30 a.m. and noon on Friday, Oct. 26. Visit michaelzide.com.