Art
This year the Polly Hill Arboretum’s annual David H. Smith Memorial lecture features Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens plant curator Bill Cullina, who will discuss the environment via a long-term geological view. His talk is called The Web of Life: Taking the Long View.
Pan-Martha Bike Ride
The Pan-Martha Challenge, 50-mile bike-a-thon around Martha’s Vineyard on August 27, will benefit life-saving cancer research charities.
Beginning in Oak Bluffs, pedaling through Edgartown, out to Chilmark and Aquinnah, and back through Vineyard Haven, the Pan-Martha Challenge is not only a beautiful was to experience Martha’s Vineyard, 100 per cent of every rider-raised dollar is donated directly to local cancer research charities.
For Kate Taylor and Joan LeLacheur, wampum is a living thing. It’s not just an inanimate discarded clamshell, but rather something that has the ability to tell a story of the past, present and future.
For nearly 30 years the two wampum artists have been working on a wampum belt. Finally finished, with 763 handmade beads, the belt has its fair share of stories.
Last Monday night a dream of sitting down with James Taylor was auctioned off at the Possible Dreams fundraiser. It cost a pretty penny. For those of us whose available cash runs more to loose change, how about a trip back in time to see James Taylor when he was just starting out and wearing a mustache?
The movie is called Troubadours and it chronicles the intimate west Hollywood club that opened its doors in 1957 and set the stage for a number of future careers including Tom Waits, Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne, and James Taylor.
On Saturday, August 6, at 8 p.m. leave the world of land and sky and go deep under the sea. Be prepared to watch with awe and a fair bit of concern. Our oceans are places of mystery and grandeur but they are also like the proverbial canary in the coal mine, visual bellwethers for the assault on nature being wrought by global warming and other man-made issues.
Tapestries and Furniture
Julia Mitchell and Bill Nash are the featured artists this week, August 5 through 14, at the Shaw Cramer Gallery located at 56 Main street in Vineyard Haven.
Ms. Mitchell works with handwoven tapestries using color blended wools on line. She is known for her representations of wind, water, light and shadow upon the landscape. Mr. Nash’s medium is furniture.