Art
Children’s Gardens
Award-winning children’s garden designer Jane L. Taylor, founding curator at Michigan 4-H Children’s Garden at Michigan State University, will lead a program about creating educational and entertaining gardens for children. Open to all teachers, parents and community members, the program will take place on Saturday, Sept. 25 from 10 a.m. to noon at the Edgartown School.
COMSOG Festival
The Community Solar Greenhouse’s annual Fall Festival will be held on Sunday, Oct. 3 from noon to 3 p.m. at 114 New York avenue. Islanders anticipate the COMSOG soup each year (it’s free!) as well as the music, games, trifles and treasures sale, raffle and vendors.
Understanding Zionism
Zionist Thought Then and Now, is a new class being led by Rabbi Caryn Broitman. The class will focus on the many different understandings of Zionism in the past 100 years, through reading thinkers both religious and secular, both left and right.
There will be 4 sessions: Oct. 12, 19 and 26 and Nov. 2. All classes will be from 7 to 8:30 p.m.
Featherstone Center for the Arts, the nonprofit arts campus on a hilltop in Oak Bluffs, has a new executive director, after its board appointed Ann Smith to replace Francine Kelly at its annual general meeting last Wednesday.
Ms. Kelly, who has vastly expanded Featherstone’s programs and fundraising since arriving in 2003, asked the 18-member board in August for retirement effective Labor Day. She will stay on as a consultant to plan events to promote the center’s 15th anniversary next year.
Twinkling Ingmar Bergmanesque lights sparkled in the spooky, dark woods of Chilmark. A big bowl of baby tomatoes sat on an outdoor table. Inside the anterior barn space at the Yard, the makeshift stage was adorned with microphones, drums and a hand-waving papier-mâché R2-D2. It seemed everyone and everything was welcome at the Satsang Lounge.
West Tisbury artist Leslie Baker recently opened a show of her landscape work at the Copley Society of Art in Boston. A painter, portrait artist and children’s book author, Ms. Baker’s plein air oil studies are well known on the Vineyard, where she has lived year-round since 1997. The Copley show is anchored by a sweeping triptych of Long Point Wildlife Refuge on a hazy, late summer day. The show opened on Sept. 11 and will hang until Oct. 8. The Copley Society of Art, founded in 1879, is located at 158 Newbury street in Boston.