A regular summer Island impressario, Elizabeth Dembrowsky on Saturday debuts her first novel, My Monk, with two readings (1 and 6 p.m.) at the Katharine Cornell Theatre on Spring street in Vineyard Haven.

The book notes say: “Harriet Zabrosky believed in love at first sight — until it happened to her. He became a monk. She moved back to America.”

Once again the Field Gallery in West Tisbury features artists of Barbara Wylan and Ron Gee.

Barbara Wylan was born in Providence, R.I. in 1933, and received her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design in 1955. Her home and studio are located on Cape Cod’s north side in Barnstable village. Primarily a landscape painter, Barbara works in pastel, acrylics, and watercolor. Her brother is popular Vineyard conservationist Bob Woodruff.

Landscapes at Dragonfly

Dragonfly Gallery’s Treasures to Preserve show, which runs through August 23, features artists Elizabeth Lockhart Taft and Ann Christensen. Their paintings reflect contemplation, intuition and analysis of landscapes, while each artist employs a different color palate and approach.

Refreshments will be served on Saturday and Sunday, August 15 and August 16.

Saturday night at PikNik and beats are spinning from a deejay’s turntables, blaring outside the bounds of the gallery’s backlot. A crowd in their taste-maker threads, eating from the retro the ArtCliff Diner truck, is gathered in small town Oak Bluffs to see cityscapes. The scene at PikNik’s Urban Show demonstrated the transience of the urban mindset, its ability to be transplanted even to a mostly rural Island.

In 1975 Claudia Weill’s film The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir, which she codirected with Shirley MacLaine, was an Oscar contender for best feature-length documentary, and she later became the third woman in history to be admitted into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, known for the prestigious film award, as a film director.

Renowned Printmaker

On Saturday, August 15, the Granary Gallery in West Tisbury will welcome the renowned printmaker Lou Stovall with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m.

Born in Athens, Ga., in 1937, Mr. Stovall grew up in Springfield. He studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and at Howard University. Since 1962, he has lived and worked in Washington, D.C.

His drawings and silkscreen prints have brought him grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Stern Family Fund.