Art
Wednesday, Oct. 24, is PechaKucha Night at the Harbor View Hotel. Is this a new kind of trivia night, bingo or sporting event? Wrong, wrong and wrong again.
PechaKucha night started in Japan in 2003 as an event for creative people to get together, network and show their work. It is now a worldwide celebration where everyone uses the same format: each participant gets to present 20 images for 20 seconds each. This keeps the evening concise and flowing.
In most people’s lives, glass has become so transparent as to be almost invisible. We drink from glasses, store food in glass jars and look out of glass windows. But a customer walking into the main building of Martha’s Vineyard Glassworks can’t help but consider the artistic process of making glass, too.
Inside the welcoming cedar-shingled building located on State Road in West Tisbury, the glassblowing studio is separated from the gallery by just a wraparound countertop. Within one building, the before, during and after takes place.
The Martha’s Vineyard Center for Living will hold its first in a series of fall and winter cultural luncheons on Saturday, Oct. 20, from noon to 2 p.m. at The Grill on Main street in Edgartown.The featured speaker is David R. White, executive and artistic director of the Yard.
For reservations call Leslie Clapp 508-939-9440.
All year long Featherstone Center for the Arts in Oak Bluffs holds classes in all manner of the arts. The teachers are always seasoned pro’s passing on both a love for the creative process and the technical aspects of the medium, too.
Many of the classes cater to teens and adults, others, like those taught by Lani Carney (Miss Lani to all), embrace the budding imaginative power of children and give the kids the foundation for a long love-affair with art.
Plein Air is in the air. For the month of October the Martha’s Vineyard Museum and Arts Martha’s Vineyard are teaming up to celebrate creativity done outdoors. During the month various museum properties will be open for Island artists for a series of plein air sessions.
The A gallery in Vineyard Haven lives on for another weekend with XX Danger Zone, a multi media event being held on Oct. 7 from 7 to 10:30 p.m. The Danger Zone is actually Holly Diane Anger a.k.a. Holly Danger who with Jeff Schram is presenting the Moon, an acoustic, electronic and live visual performance project.
Samantha Barrow who often rides her motorcycle around the country sharing her poems, will dismount for the evening and add her blend of poetry and performance to the mix.