Art
Old boat motors line the walkway, driftwood creakingly composes the banisters, pieces of sea glass stud the stone walls, a decaying water ski serves as a shelf. But this is not an underwater farmhouse — it is Saltwater Gallery, Ashley Medowski’s giant work of art that houses the smaller creations she makes inside its walls.
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.
At the age of thirteen Helen Phillips made a New Year’s resolution to write and read a poem a day. She stuck with this pledge until the age of 21. Ms. Phillips is now 29 years-old, an award winning writer, and on tour with her first novel, And Yet They Were Happy. She will appear today at 5 p.m. at the Dragonfly Gallery in Oak Bluffs.
With a voice that embodies a dusty road at the moment when day surrenders to evening, Citizen Cope found the intersection of sensual and earthly. The Memphis-born, D.C.-raised post modern troubadour blends reggae, jazz, folk and various strains of roots music as if there are no lines dividing music — and it shows on his dusky The RainWater LP on his own RainWater Records.
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.
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.